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Until Thy Wrath Be Past

On sale

4th August 2011

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Digital (deliver electronic) / ISBN-13: 9780857387493

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“Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund” iNews

“In a television world now awash in female coppers, there aren’t many as interesting and human as Rebecka” Wall Street Journal


In the first thaw of spring the body of a young woman surfaces in the River Torne in the far north of Sweden.

Rebecka Martinsson is working as a prosecutor in nearby Kiruna, her sleep troubled by visions of a shadowy, accusing figure. Could the body belong to the girl in her dream?

Joining forces with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Martinsson will need all her courage to face a killer who will kill again to keep the past buried under half a century of silent ice and snow.

“Well written, atmospheric and gripping to the end.” ***** Reader Review

“The first book I read by Asa Larsson and I expect to read all the others.”
***** Reader Review

“One of those books that I did not want to end.”
***** Reader Review

The novels that inspired Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders – the major TV series

Translated from Swedish by Laurie Thompson

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Reviews

Dot Scribbles
'This book was so good! A lot of Swedish crime books carry the comparison of being as good as Henning Mankell and many of them simply aren't. However, I actually thought that this was better than Mankell's books ... Åsa Larsson weaves an extremely intricate plot and we view the actions directly from several different characters ...' Dot Scribbles.
Erik Lundqvist, in I Will Read Books
'A brutal, yet beautiful, tragedy. The strength of Åsa Larsson's characters made it very difficult to put the book down ... I just had to keep turning those pages' Erik Lundqvist, in I Will Read Books.
Eurocrime
'Let me get my verdict on this novel out of the way first: brilliant. It has been a long wait for those of us for whom Åsa Larsson's novels strike a deep chord ... thanks to MacLehose Press taking on this talented author ... Until Thy Wrath confirms my view that Åsa Larsson is, along with Johan Theorin, writing today's highest-quality psychological crime novels, particularly strong in their evocation of the local communities, myths and superstitions that are all in danger of dying out in our globalised, homogenised society' Maxine Clarke, Eurocrime.
Independent
'Asa Larsson is a markedly different writer, with notably cooler prose, and unlike her multimillion-selling namesake, Stieg ... The novel shows that Larsson is ready to confront unpalatable truths. Among the current batch of Nordic writers, the new Larsson is one to be followed with the most minute attention' Barry Forshaw in Independent.
Publishers Weekly
'Fans of Henning Mankell, Karin Fossum and Arnaldur Indridason will not be disappointed' Publishers Weekly.
Telegraph
'Larsson's laid back style makes her unflinching probing of icy depths of the human heart all the more chilling' Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph.
Telegraph
Larsson's laid-back style makes her unflinching probing of the icy depths of the human heart all the more chilling
Wall Street Journal
In a world awash with female coppers, there aren't many as interesting and human as Rebecka