About Stefan Ahnhem
About the Translator
About the Fabian Risk Thrillers
An Invitation from the Publisher
Acknowledgements
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Because you endured, even when it was very hard. You’ve been such a wonderful and completely necessary support. Your thoughts and feedback have been so much more than just one more contribution among the rest. Without you… No, the thought is impossible.
Kasper, Filippa, Sander and Noomi
Because you understand why Dad is sometimes somewhere else altogether, even though he’s sitting and eating at the same table.
Jonas
For your time and energy, thoughts and ideas. A better sounding board doesn’t exist.
Adam, Andreas and Sara, and all the others at Bokförlaget Forum
Because not only are you the best publisher, but you’re also the most fun.
Magnus
Because you shared all your medical knowledge with me, and were more than happy to spend time discussing how big an eye is compared to a pearl onion.
Lars
Because you are so eager to explain how to chamber a round and all that other stuff that goes on behind the curtain.
Mikael and Jenny
Because you are two of my very best friends, and because you bought thirty(!) copies of Victim without a Face.
Ellen at the Akademibokhandeln bookstore in Helsingborg, and Sven-Åke and the whole gang at Väla
Because you read, liked, talked up, and got so many others to read my first book.
And finally a big thanks to all of you who went out and bought Victim without a Face in the summer of 2014 when no one else had even heard about it. Thanks to all of you, and to all of your friends you recommended it to, who in turn recommended it to their friends. Because of you, I can sit here and write the third book about Fabian Risk.
About Stefan Ahnhem
STEFAN AHNHEM grew up in Helsingborg, Sweden, and now lives in Stockholm. He is an established screenwriter, whose credits include adapting Henning Mankell’s Wallander series for TV. He also serves on the board of the Swedish Writers Guild. His first novel, Victim Without a Face, won Crimetime’s Novel of the Year in Sweden in 2014, and became a top-ten bestseller in Germany, Sweden and Ireland. Stefan Ahnhem has been published in thirteen countries to date.
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About the Translator
PAUL NORLEN is an experienced translator of Swedish fiction. He was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize in 2004. He lives in Seattle.
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First published in Sweden as Den Nionde Graven in 2015 by Forum
This translation first published in Canada in 2016 by House of Anansi Press Inc
First published an eBook in the UK in 2016 by Head of Zeus Ltd
Copyright © Stefan Ahnhem, 2015
Translation copyright © Paul Norlen, 2016
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This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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ISBN (HB) 9781784975524
ISBN (XTPB) 9781784975531
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