Books by Stefan Ahnhem and Complete Book Reviews
Stefan Ahnhem, trans. from the Swedish by Paul Norlen. Minotaur, $28.99 (608p) ISBN 978-1-250-10320-8
The prologue of Ahnhem’s scathing second Fabian Risk novel (after 2016’s Victim Without a Face) recounts how a letter written by a dying Palestinian held prisoner in Israel in 1999 got mailed to a woman in Sweden. Flash forward to 2009, when the...
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Stefan Ahnhem, trans. from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Minotaur, $29.99 (592p) ISBN 978-1-250-10322-2
In Ahnhem’s intricately plotted third Fabian Risk novel (after 2017’s Ninth Grave), police detective Risk is struggling with his deteriorating marriage and his troubled teenage son, Theodor, when he and other members of the Helsingborg crime squad,...
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Stefan Ahnhem, trans. from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles. Minotaur, $27.99 (608p) ISBN 978-1-250-10318-5
Swedish screenwriter Ahnhem’s compelling if overly long first novel, a series launch introducing Det. Fabian Risk, explores social exclusion and its consequences. Risk has left Stockholm to return to his hometown of Helsingborg, but before he can...
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Stefan Ahnhem, trans. from the Swedish by Agnes Broomé. Aries (IPG, dist.), $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-1-80110-994-9
In Swedish author Ahnhem’s blistering sixth and final Fabian Risk thriller (after 2019’s X Ways to Die), the discovery of two bodies in a Mercedes submerged in a lake outside Copenhagen puts former police detective Dunja Hougaard on the trail of her
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