"An inspector Van Veeteren mystery (no 4 of 10).

A mother's dying wish sealed with a deadly promise. Four men with a secret they thought they'd buried decades earlier. A detective in love. A man desperate to live despite the shadow of his guilty past. After hearing her mother's deathbed confession and following her mother's dreary funeral, Maria Adler realizes she has no other option but to seize upon her mother's imperative to do something. Dissolving the life she loathes, Maria changes her appearance and disappears. When she emerges, revenge is her sole occupation."

It's been quite a while since I read this book and that was of course in swedish, the original language. But i remember I liked it very much.

Even though I don't read that many mysteries or thrillers Håkan Nesser is still one of my favourite authors. I like the way he always manages to tell not only an intriguing story about murder and death, but also about the life that goes on around it. He disects the human psyche and mind and presents them to his readers with the outmost clearity. Nothing is uninteresting or too mundane.

This is the 4th book in a series of 10. You don't have to read them in the right order.

This book was released to celebrate Sweden's national day. Hopefully it will have a long journey and make lots of new friends :)

Thank you so much, Victoria, for the book and the other treats! I'm definitely looking forward to reading this!