Part of Series
En kall och blöt majdag hittas riskkapitalisten och före detta riksdagsmannen Ingemar Lerberg torterad och medvetslös i sin fashionabla villa utanför Stockholm. Hans hustru Nora är spårlöst försvunnen. På Kvällspressen får Annika Bengtzon i uppdrag att skriva om fallet samtidigt som hennes privatliv är i gungning. Hon lever tillsammans med sin nya kärlek och hans barn samtidigt som hon delar vårdnaden om sina egna barn med ex-maken. Det fungerar inte smärtfritt. Tidningens chefredaktör Anders Schyman hamnar i blåsväder när anklagelser riktas mot honom om det reportage som många år tidigare gav honom Stora Journalistpriset. Och medan Ingemar Lerbergs hamnar i allt djupare koma och kritiken mot Anders Schyman växer, framträder en allt tydligare bild av något väldigt mörkt och förljuget under den tjusiga ytan i villaförorten. Varför ville någon plåga ihjäl en före detta politiker? Och var är den försvunna hustrun?
Author
Scandinavia’s undisputed queen of crime fiction, Liza Marklund is the No. 1 international bestselling author of the Annika Bengtzon series. Liza Marklund was born in 1962 in the small village of Pålmark, close to the Arctic Circle in Sweden. She is an author, journalist, columnist, and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. She is also co-owner of Piratförlaget, one of Sweden’s most successful publishing houses. Since her debut in 1995, Liza Marklund has written eleven novels and two nonfiction books. Liza co-wrote the international bestseller The Postcard Killers with James Patterson, making her the second Swedish author ever to reach No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Her crime novels featuring the gutsy reporter Annika Bengtzon have sold more than 13 million copies in 30 languages to date. Liza Marklund worked as an investigative news reporter for ten years and as an editor in print and television news for five. Today, she also makes documentaries for television and writes for various newspapers. Her topics are often women and children’s rights. Liza has made documentaries about children with HIV/AIDS in Cambodia and Russia, and a series about domestic violence, Take a Little Beating. Liza is also a popular columnist since 20 years. Her columns have appeared in various Swedish and international newspapers and magazines, including Financial Times in the UK, Welt am Sonntag in Germany, Dagbladet Information in Denmark, and Ilta-Lehti in Finland. She is a regular columnist in Swedish tabloid Expressen and Norwegian daily Verdens Gang. Today, Liza and her family divide their time between Stockholm in Sweden and Marbella in southern Spain.
