The Savage Altar

Hardback (05 Apr 2007)

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Publisher's Synopsis

In a land of silence and snow, the killing has begun . . .

Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess . . .

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Viking

Viking

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Book information

ISBN: 9780670916146
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Viking
Pub date:
DEWEY: 839.738
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 310
Weight: 624g
Height: 241mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 29mm