HIDDEN IN SHADOWS (I SKUGGOR DOLD)

Eight months into her leave of absence, Detective Inspector Monica Eurell is growing restless. No new career has appeared, and she has walked every street in Stockholm twice over. With no choice but to return to the force, she is handed an almost impossible assignment: three women have vanished without a trace from a house in Dalarna. There are no witnesses, no suspects, and perhaps not even a crime. Did the women leave of their own accord, or has someone taken them?

At the same time, Benjamin Krantz drifts aimlessly through the city, trying to ignore the podcast that has dragged his family’s past into the spotlight. Hoping to earn back his job with the police, he agrees to sit in on an interrogation of his criminal half-brother, Christoffer Öberg. But the meeting only deepens the mystery. Why is Christoffer so interested in Benjamin—and what secret is he hiding?

Hidden in Shadows is the fourth installment in John Willander Lambrell’s acclaimed suspense series, inspired by real cold cases. This time, readers are also reunited with a beloved character from Three Who Saw: Mora police officer Inge Ingesson.

400 pages

Rights

Denmark: People’s
Finland: Bazar Kustannus
The Netherlands: Luitingh & Sijthoff
Norway: Bonnier Norsk Forlag
Poland: Prószyński
Sweden: Bokförlaget Polaris

Film rights

REVIEWS

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“The novel shifts between multiple perspectives and between past and present, adding both pace and depth. The language is simple and effective, its rhythm driven by short chapters and a confident sense of dramaturgy. The characters are vivid and convincingly drawn, and Willander Lambrell has a keen eye for the quiet dissonance that lurks beneath the ordinary. Hidden in Shadows is a solid and well-written continuation of the series, in which Willander Lambrell reaffirms his position as an author of dark, human, and accessible suspense with psychological precision.”
BTJ / SWE

BTJ / SWE