# The Living and the Dead: A Novel about a Crime - Hardcover

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by **Christoffer Carlsson** (Author), **Rachel Willson-Broyles** (Translator)

**THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**

**One town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence.**

**A "brooding and brilliant" (_Kirkus Review_s, starred review) murder mystery set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . .**

**"All the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare."--FREDRIK BACKMAN  
"The finest crime writer we have in Sweden."--DAVID LAGERCRANTZ  
"Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western."--ANTHONY MARRA  
"A thriller rendered with precision and beauty."--ADAM WHITE  
"Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations."--_THE NEW YORK TIMES_**  
**"A must for Nordic noir and psychological mystery fans."--_LIBRARY JOURNAL_ (STARRED REVIEW)  
"Carlsson is the creme de la creme of Nordic noir."--_BOOKPAGE_ (STARRED REVIEW)**

**One of _Publishers Weekly_'s Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of the Fall**

**WINNER OF THE BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL (THE GLASS KEY AWARD) - WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD - WINNER OF DENMARK'S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL**

_Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own._

On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.

The hunt for the killer will take more than twenty years. It will see the lead detective leave the force forever. And it won't end until a second body turns up in similar circumstances, and the tight-knit community's secrets are finally brought to light.

In _The Living and the Dead_, renowned criminologist Christoffer Carlsson masterfully transports us to the fields and forests of western Sweden, a region of farmers and truck drivers torn apart by economic injustice and self-deceit--a world where the portal between the living and the dead is flung wide open and where no one is entirely innocent.

### Author Biography

**Christoffer Carlsson** was born in 1986 in Marbäck, Sweden. He holds a PhD in criminology from Stockholm University and is one of Sweden's leading crime experts. He is the youngest winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, which he has won twice. _The New York Times_ named his debut, _Blaze Me a Sun,_ one of the best crime novels of the year. He lives in Stockholm. **Rachel Willson-Broyles** lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

**Number of Pages:** 432

**Dimensions:** 1.49 x 9.34 x 6.42 IN

**Publication Date:** December 02, 2025

## Details

- **Price:** 36.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police Procedural, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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