Jens Lapidus, trans. from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander. Pantheon, $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-307-37748-7
In the searing debut of Swedish criminal defense attorney Lapidus, three lost souls converge along cocaine’s nightmare highway to hell. Fearsome Serbian Mrado, a collector/dealer/hit man for Yugo crime boss Radovan Kranjic, yearns for more...
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Jens Lapidus, trans. from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander. Pantheon, $26.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-307-37749-4
“Svens” (native Swedes) collide with immigrant groups, from Middle Easterners to ruthlessly organized gangs of “Yugos” and “Turks,” in the gritty second novel in Lapidus’s Stockholm Noir trilogy (after 2011’s Easy Money). Mahmud al-Askori is a pawn...
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Jens Lapidus, trans. from the Swedish by Astri von Arbin Ahlander. Pantheon, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-307-37750-0
Lapidus takes a fascinating look at moral ambiguity and ruthless ambition in the compelling conclusion to his Stockholm Noir trilogy, which follows the power struggle between members of Stockholm’s underworld and the police. Radovan Kranjic—the “godf
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Jens Lapidus, trans. from the Swedish by Alice Menzies. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $16.95 trade paper (512p) ISBN 978-0-525-43171-8
This gloomy crime novel from Lapidus (Easy Money and two other books his Stockholm Noir trilogy) focuses on Serbian immigrants. Teddy is trying to go straight after his release from prison—where he served time for kidnapping Mats Emanuelsson, a one-t
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Jens Lapidus, trans. from the Swedish by Alice Menzies. Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, $18 trade paper (560p) ISBN 978-0-525-43173-2
Lapidus’s hard-hitting sequel to 2017’s Stockholm Delete updates the careers of diverse characters caught up in Stockholm’s criminal underworld. Teddy, a Serbian immigrant, can’t get a regular job after spending eight years in prison for kidnapping...
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