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Under the Storm

A Novel

by Christoffer Carlsson
Rachel Willson-Broyles
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THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) • A farmhouse mysteriously goes up in flames with someone trapped inside and a community is never the same in the aftermath—both a thrilling whodunit and a deeply touching coming-of-age story by one of Sweden’s top criminologists
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year • A BookPage Best Mystery & Thriller of 2024 (So Far)
“When the body of a young woman is discovered in an incinerated farmhouse, resolution was swift: It was murder, her boyfriend did it, case closed. But for the boyfriend’s nephew, Isak; the arresting officer, Vidar Jörgensson; and the entire community of Marbäck, closure is a myth about to be shattered—spectacularly.”—The New York Times
On a cold November night, a farmhouse burns to the ground. Inside a young woman is found dead—not from the fire but murdered. To the people in the rural community of Marbäck, this becomes a reference point: a before and after. For ten-year-old Isak Nyqvist, it sets in motion something he cannot control, igniting his future into an unpredictable inferno.
The police focus their attention on Edvard Christensson, the boyfriend of the murdered woman and Isak’s beloved uncle. After a quick investigation, Edvard is found guilty and sentenced to life in prison and Marbäck believes it can return to its innocence. Vidar Jörgensson, the rookie officer who first responded to the fire, prides himself on helping solved the murder. Little does he know this will become the defining case of his career and that it will drive him to the brink of professional and personal disaster—and link his fate to young Isak's.
A celebrated author and professor of criminology, Christoffer Carlsson digs deep into the psyches of ordinary people and shows how one crime can haunt a community for decades. A modern classic of Scandinavian crime fiction, Under the Storm demonstrates why many regard Carlsson as one of the great crime writers of his generation.

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    Halland Suite

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  • Release date

    February 27, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593449394

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      January 1, 2024
      The murder of a young woman in rural Sweden has wrenching, far-reaching consequences for the policeman investigating the crime and the nephew of the man convicted of it. Seven-year-old Isak Nyqvist has a warm relationship with his mother's 25-year-old brother, Edvard Christensson, his regular Sunday companion. But for residents of tiny Marb�ck, Edvard is a bad sort who's cut from the same cloth as his father, "a troublemaking bastard who no one liked." So no one except the devastated Isak is all that surprised when Edvard is arrested for killing his girlfriend, Lovisa, who died of blunt force trauma to the head before her body was left in a raging house fire. Nor are locals surprised when Isak, cursed by the same bloodlines, becomes a social misfit himself by his teens. The one person who remains unsure of Edvard's guilt is police detective Vidar J�rgensson, who's unable to let go of the case even after his decades-long obsession with it leads to his getting pushed off the force and his once-loving marriage runs into trouble. (Vidar's fraught relationship with his own father, a corrupt cop, was the basis for Carlsson's great Blaze Me a Sun, from 2023.) In the end, the smallest, most slowly emerging details provide answers to the mystery. Boasting the psychological intensity of a Hitchcock film and gloomy atmospheric elements including a ferocious storm, this is a gripping, utterly distinctive mystery by a newly established Swedish master. As in Blaze Me a Sun, Carlsson explores the nature of grief and generational trauma, all while keeping readers unsure of what's going to happen next. A brilliantly woven, unsettling crime novel.

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    • Booklist

      January 1, 2024
      All is well in the Swedish village of Tolarp until Lovisa Markstr�m's murdered body is found in her burning farmhouse and Vidar J�rgensson, a driven, idealistic young officer with the regional police force, discovers the man who was courting her, Edvard, blood-drenched and cowering in the nearby forest. Edvard is arrested and his 10-year-old nephew, Isak, yearns for the days they spent tramping the woods. As the years wear on, relentless bullying plants in Isak a dark anger, which feeds on the boy's fear that he is like his murderer uncle. Vidar, meanwhile, finds love while investigating the case, but his life is thrown into turmoil when evidence begins to cast doubt on Edvard's guilt. Truth emerges in the wake of a catastrophic storm, clearing the way for rebirth and redemption. This slow-burning, masterfully constructed literary thriller from the author of Blaze Me a Sun (2023) and one of Sweden's leading crime experts lays bare the haunting effects of violent crime.

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