Leaning over the balcony railing she started to cry. Uppsala was bedded in a cold, gray October fog. The whole city was weeping.
“Stay with me,” she whispered.
Also by Kjell Eriksson
The Hand That Trembles
The Demon of Dakar
The Cruel Stars of the Night
The Princess of Burundi
About the Author
KJELL ERIKSSON is the author of the internationally acclaimed The Princess of Burundi, The Cruel Stars of the Night, The Demon of Dakar, and The Hand That Trembles. He won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award for The Princess of Burundi, and his work has been honored by many other countries around the world. He lives in Sweden, France, and Brazil.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
BLACK LIES, RED BLOOD. Copyright © 2008 by Kjell Eriksson. Translation © 2014 by Paul Norlen. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Eriksson, Kjell, 1953—
Black lies, red blood / Kjell Eriksson; translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen.—First U.S. edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-312-60504-9 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-4067-6 (e-book)
1. Policewomen—Fiction. 2. Missing persons—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Norlen, Paul R. translator. II. Title.
PT9876.15.R5155S8313 2014
839.73'8—dc23
2013032881
First published in Sweden under the title Svarta lögner, rött blod by Ordfonts Verlag.
e-ISBN 9781466840676
First U.S. Edition: April 2014