Mats Ahlstedt

Murder on the Shore

(Mordet på Ragnhildsholmen)

A graduation party in the ruins of a medieval fortress is cut abruptly short when the body of a murdered man is found, buried in a shallow grave just below the ruins.

Police officers Fatima Wallinder from Somalia and Sören Högström, a middle aged average cop, lead the investigation, and in an interview with an old lady living in the area they find out that a shot was heard in the middle of the night some weeks earlier. Later that day the old woman and her husband are found dead in what appears to be a double suicide.

But the old couple’s daughter Åsa refuses to believe that her parents would commit suicide, and when she cleans out their attic she finds some letters that awaken bad memories from her childhood.

Sören focuses on the murdered man, finding traces that lead to drug trafficking and gang crime, but Fatima can’t stop thinking about Åsa. The murdered man, the double suicide, the letters in the attic – somehow it all seems to be connected.

Murder on the Shore is a thriller about the Finnish children who came to Sweden during WW2 and what happened to them.

308 pages.

Published by Kabusa Böcker 2009.