Rites of Spring, Anders Motte [reading diary .TXT] 📗

Sweden and have been shortlisted for the Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award for Best Crime Novel of the Year. Anders, a former police officer, has already won a Swedish Academy Crime Award for his debut, Game, in 2010 and his second standalone, The Silenced, in 2015.

To date, the first three books in the Seasons Quartet have published over half a million copies. Set in southern Sweden, all four books can be read as standalones.

DEAD OF WINTER

When fifteen-year-old Laura Aulin arrives to spend Christmas with her beloved aunt Hedda, she is also looking forward to spending time with Jack, Hedda’s foster son.

But a lot has happened since last summer and Laura soon finds out that things are not what they first appear, as old faces and new seem to be keeping secrets from her. Tensions and jealousies come to an explosive finale at a party on the night of Lucia.

And when the smoke clears, all that is left is ash . . .

Coming Winter 2022

Deeds of Autumn

Autumn, 1990: Five childhood friends set up camp by their secret swimming spot, for an evening that is supposed to be a last farewell to their childhoods, and each other. But not everyone is ready to let go, or be left behind. When dawn breaks, a body is found floating in the dark waters of the quarry. The police label it a tragic accident, but not everyone is convinced.

Twenty-seven years later, the accident remains an open wound in the community. When the old chief of police is replaced by Anna Vesper, a newly arrived homicide detective from Stockholm, new information comes to light. Soon, Anna is left with no choice but to ignore all warnings and reopen the case from autumn 1990. An autumn that few will admit to remembering, but no one will ever forget.

Coming Autumn 2022

Originally published In Sweden by Bokförlaget Forum In 2020

First published in the UK in 2021 by Zaffre

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Copyright © Anders de la Motte, 2020

Translation by Marlaine Delargy

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