Knock knock / Anders Roslund ; translated from the Swedish by Elizabeth Clark Wessel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593188217
- Physical Description: 438 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of: Jamåhonleva. "First pubished in Swedish as Jamåhonleva by Albert Bonniers Förlag, Stockholm" --title page verso. |
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Subject: | Police > Sweden > Fiction. Murder > Investigation > Fiction. Informers > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Mystery fiction. |
Available copies
- 5 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 6 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Terrace Public Library | ROS (Text) | 35151001113646 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2021 January #1
*Starred Review* After a lifetime of consuming devotion to his calling, Stockholm DS Ewert Grens faces his looming retirement with dread. It's fitting, then, that a cold case from Grens' past resurfaces; the recent killings of three Albanian gang enforcers bear unsettling similarities to the murders of four members of the Lilaj family 17 years earlier. The victims in both incidents were killed with the same unique signature. There was one survivor in the Lilaj murders, five-year-old Zana, whom Grens found alive in the apartment. As Grens tracks Zana through Sweden's witness-protection system, former undercover operative Piet Hoffman approaches Grens for help turning the tables on a deadly extortion plot. A traitor inside Grens' own department has stolen Hoffman's confidential informant files, threatening to unveil him to the gangsters he betrayed unless he carries out a high-profile hit, as a way of promoting a new weapon to Stockholm's gangs. Grens ferrets out the traitor, burning relationship bridges along the way, while Hoffman heads to Albania, determined to take out the arms dealers behind the extortion. Grens is an immensely compelling character whose sharp intuition and dedication to justice are reminiscent of Harry Bosch. This tense, sophisticated procedural can stand alone, but readers will find themselves drawn to Grens' seven earlier investigations. Copyright 2021 Booklist Reviews. - BookPage Reviews : BookPage Reviews 2021 February
Whodunit: February 2021Some of the biggest names in the genre knock it out of the park, and one half of an acclaimed Scandi-noir writing team goes it alone in this month's Whodunit column.
Serpentine
Cases don't come much colder than the 36-year-old murder of Dorothy Swoboda, whose burned-beyond-recognition remains were found in a similarly scorched late-model Cadillac down a steep embankment off of Los Angeles' serpentine Mulholland Drive, thus providing the title of Jonathan Kellerman's excellent Serpentine. Now, all these years later, the case has been assigned to LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis, who enlists consulting psychologist Alex Delaware as backup. Neither expects much to come of further investigation. The cops back in the day had their suspicions, but nothing panned out. Nowadays the case files are sketchy, and the best line of inquiry seems to be to interview some of the original investigating officers and witnesses and see what insights they might have had that never made it into the official case files. Only problem is, Milo finds that virtually everyone with any insight into the case has met an untimely death. There is no statute of limitations on murder, so it would appear that someone is doing his (or her) level best to stay one step ahead of this latest investigation, and in this case "level best" makes for a scorching good read.
Before She Disappeared
Lisa Gardner's thriller Before She Disappeared introduces us to Frankie Elkin. For a time, Frankie struggled to find some purpose in her life, some reason to keep moving forward while in recovery for alcoholism. She discovered her niche as an advocate for missing persons, seeking out those who have disappeared, the unimportant, the hitherto forgotten. She does this on a volunteer basis, taking no payment, propelled along by a remarkable success rate, at least by one metric: She is very good at finding people. Unfortunately, the subjects of her searches routinely turn up quite dead. There is hope yet for her new case, however. Haitian teenager Angelique Badeau was a stellar and motivated student, intent on a career in medicine. Then, nothing. She disappeared nearly a year ago, leaving virtually no trace. As Frankie's investigation progresses, it offers an up-close look into some of the issues that plague American society todayâracism, antipathy toward immigrants and the trafficking of young womenâwhile providing a blistering narrative and sympathetic characters (even an annoyingly endearing cat!). Before She Disappeared is billed as a standalone, but I'm thinking it would be the perfect setup for a terrific series.
Knock Knock
It's likely that regular readers of this column are familiar with my gushing over mystery novels from Europe's frozen north, a subgenre known as Scandinavian noir. After the death of his longtime writing partner Börge Hellström, Swedish writer Anders Roslund returns with Knock Knock, his first solo novel and the next installment of his and Hellström's gripping series featuring police superintendent Ewert Grens and undercover informant Piet Hoffman. Every cop has one nagging case that they were unable to solve, a case that remains within their being, waiting for some kind of closure. For Ewert, it was the murder of a family 17 years ago in which only a 5-year-old girl was spared, although she was unable to yield any usable clues to the killings. Now there has been a break-in at the same apartment, and Ewert, who is on the verge of retirement, would like nothing more than to see this case resolved before he rides off into the sunset. Meanwhile, Piet, having been outed as an informant, is being blackmailed by lethal munitions brokers, his family threatened to the point that they must go into hiding. Roslund cleverly interlaces these two disparate storylines, and readers will marvel at just how much action can take place in a period spanning only three days. Knock Knock has handily reaffirmed all my Scandi-noir gushing.
âËâ¦Â Blood Grove
It is a fair bet that if Walter Mosley has a book coming out during any given month, a) it will get reviewed here, and b) there's an excellent chance it will be the best mystery of that month. Case in point: his latest, Blood Grove. Private detective Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is nudging 50 years of age in this novel, which is set in late-1960s Los Angeles. The Vietnam War has taken its toll on the nation. Hippies are tuning in, turning on, dropping out. Racism is rampant. And in the middle of this uneasy milieu, Easy gets approached by a vet suffering from what we now call PTSD. The vet spins an incredible story: He went to the aid of a screaming woman in distress at a remote hilltop cabin, stabbed her attacker and then lapsed into unconsciousness. When he awoke, there was no woman, no stabbed man, really no indication whatsoever that any of his memories were anything more than a hallucination. Nothing is quite what it seems in this place, in this time, in this book. Lurking just beneath the surface are a heist gone bad, a gangster or three on the vengeance trail and a trio of lethal ladies. And there are all manner of '60s cultural references, from Lucky Strike cigarettes to Edsel cars to free-love clubsânot to mention a character who bears more than a passing resemblance to real-life record producer Terry Melcher, who was briefly associated with Charles Manson. I read it all in one sitting, as I just could not stop turning the pages.
Copyright 2021 BookPage Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2020 December #1
A veteran Swedish detective is forced to revisit the most disturbing case of his career. After Detective Ewert Grens carried 5-year-old Zana Lilaj from the scene of her family's massacre, he investigated the crime in vain, even with Zana as an eyewitness. Seventeen years later, DI Grens, who's on the verge of retirement, can't refuse the request of his abrasive boss, Mariana Hermansson, to investigate a burglary that's just occurred at the same address. His hopes that this is a coincidence are dashed when he discovers that his notes on the earlier crime have been stolen from the locked police archive. He soon determines that Zana's life is in danger. Meanwhile, former police informant Piet Hoffmann revels in the domestic bliss of life with his wife, Zofia, and their three young children following his criminal past. All this is shattered when he sees his son Rasmus playing with a hand grenade that arrived in a package addressed to the boy. This unsubtle message is followed by even more literal and threatening ones. After Piet takes his family into hiding, he appeals to his old friend Grens. Although Roslund deftly brings the two cases together, readers hooked by the high stakes and urgency in the early chapters may be impatient with set pieces and narrow escapes that feel like smoke. When Grens finally locates Zana in a new location with a new identity, he's in for a surprise that adds yet another wrinkle to the case. Roslund's fourth has punchy prose and plot twists that readers expecting another brooding Scandinavian noir won't see coming. Copyright Kirkus 2020 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2020 November #1
In Roslund's heart-pounding fourth Grens and Hoffman novel (after 2019's
Copyright 2020 Publishers Weekly.Three Hours with the late Börge Hellström), a break-in at the Stockholm apartment where every member of the Lilaj family, except five-year-old Zana, was killed 17 years earlier prompts Det. Supt. Ewert Grens to reexamine the case. Grens discovers that Zana's witness protection file has disappeared from a secure police archive just as several criminals are murdered in the same manner as her family. Meanwhile, Piet Hoffman is contacted anonymously by a person who knows all about Hoffman's time infiltrating Stockholm's criminal underworld for the police. If Hoffman doesn't start a gang war and thereby kick start demand for this new player in the weapons smuggling business, he and his family will be killed. Grens and Hoffman combine forces, as Grens senses they're working two ends of the same problem. While the peril that Hoffman faces is palpable, Grens's impending retirement and loss of purpose presents its own existential threat. This terrific mash-up of police procedural and crime thriller has strongly imagined characters, explosive action, and a twisty plot with an unexpected conclusion. It's a must for Scandinavian noir fans.Agent: Niclas Salomonsson, Salomonsson Agency (Sweden). (Jan.)