Award-winning debut French Noir thriller, first in the ROY CASTELLS series.A true-crime writer and a profiler join forces in the hunt for a serial killer.
Award-winning debut French Noir thriller, first in the ROY CASTELLS series.A true-crime writer and a profiler join forces in the hunt for a serial killer.
Evil remembers ...
Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's.Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?Emily Roy, a profiler on loan to Scotland Yard from the Canadian Royal Mounted Police, joins up with Linnea's friend, French true crime writer Alexis Castells, to investigate the puzzling case. They travel between Sweden and London and then deep into the past, as a startling and terrifying connection comes to light.Plumbing the darkness and the horrific evidence of the nature of evil, BLOCK 46 is a multi-layered, sweeping and evocative thriller that heralds a stunning new voice in French Noir.“"Well done, Orenda Books, in bringing this debut crime novel across 'the Pond.'" -- Kingdom Books Mysteries Reviews”
"Well done, Orenda Books, in bringing this debut crime novel across 'the Pond.'" --Kingdom Books Mysteries Reviews
Born in 1978 in Marseille, Johana Gustawsson has worked as a journalist for the French press and television and has a degree in political science. She married a Swede and now lives in London. She was the co-author of a bestseller, ON SE RETROUVERA, whose television adaptation drew over 7 million viewers in June 2015. She is working on the next book in the ROY & CASTELLS series.
Evil remembers ...Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's.Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?Emily Roy, a profiler on loan to Scotland Yard from the Canadian Royal Mounted Police, joins up with Linnea's friend, French true crime writer Alexis Castells, to investigate the puzzling case. They travel between Sweden and London and then deep into the past, as a startling and terrifying connection comes to light.Plumbing the darkness and the horrific evidence of the nature of evil, BLOCK 46 is a multi-layered, sweeping and evocative thriller that heralds a stunning new voice in French Noir.
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