SHADOW GIRL (SKUGGFLICKAN)

Unimaginably dark secrets come to light after a hit and run accident where a 16-year-old girl is killed, and the web of lies and secrets surrounding her short life implode to devastating effect. This is the fourth book in the 300 000 copy bestselling series.

Marielle, a sixteen-year-old teenager, is found hit by a car, barely alive, on a dark country road outside Umeå. Initially the evidence points to a tragic hit and run accident, but things are not adding up. Why is Marielle’s father behaving strangely, and what has happened to her mother whom she has always claimed is dead, but may not be? When Marielle dies from her injuries, investigators Charlotte von Klint and Per Berg start digging into her past in earnest, and a much darker story comes to light than they could ever have imagined.

Separately, the reader meets Linda, who is in an abusive relationship in Stockholm, but determined to make things work. When she finds a note in her partner’s pocket suggesting he might be having an affair, Linda starts digging into his past. But, the truth is worse than she could have imagined, and her revelations will lead to dire consequences.

Sixteen-year-old Luna, a vulnerable but determined teenager in Umeå, has grown up in a family guarding its own secrets. At risk in a not-always happy family, she has fallen into the clutches of a network that will stop at nothing to exploit her and her friend, Marielle. Desperate to escape, she takes drastic measures to change the course of her life, and of those around her.

Shadow Girl is a gripping, contemporary crime novel about the vulnerability of young girls, parental betrayal and a legal system that cannot always be trusted.

Rights

Denmark: People’s
Norway: Cappelen Damm
Sweden: Norstedts

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