A murderous game. The killer makes the rules. Death hangs on the roll of the dice. In murder investigations, it pays to keep things simple: motive, method, opportunity. But the case in front of Detective Fabian Risk is a nightmare. A killer who strikes out of nowhere. No apparent motive. No consistent method. Victims are tortured, strangled, burned, dismembered - each grisly killing carried out with savage precision, as if following the rules of a hellish game.
Fear and chaos have spread through the seaside town of Helsingborg. While Fabian Risk hunts the killer, his life is falling apart: a son on the run from the law; a daughter gravely injured; a colleague with dark secrets of his own. But there´s no turning back now. The game of death is on, and Fabian Risk must play to win.
AFTER ALL, THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO DIE...
This explosive thriller from Scandinavia´s most inventive storyteller concludes the epic events of Motive X.
REVIEWS FOR STEFAN AHNHEM:
´Atmospheric and complicated... with great cop characters and some imaginatively grisly perps´ Sunday Times (star pick).
´More gripping than Jo Nesbo, blacker than Stieg Larsson and more bleakly human than Henning Mankell´ Tony Parsons.
´Epic in scale and ambition´ Daily Mail.
´An intense journey, with an intricate plot ... Ahnhem has mastered atmosphere, pacing and intrigue´ Crime Review.
´Masterly plotting, grisly murders and chilling suspense: Stefan Ahnhem keeps the threads of this complex, two-country narrative pulled tense´ Better Reading.