REBECCA'S BLOOD
Rebeccas blod

David Lehman has made up his mind. He doesn’t want to live any longer. While the ice in his whiskey glass melts he realizes he can’t take it any longer. He’s going to end his miserable life; he’s going to drown himself in Viken’s harbor. Jonny Mattson enjoys making people suffer. Some people are so vulnerable and naive that they deserve to be punished. He has special plans for tonight and has bought some provisions to make the evening end just like he wants it to. All he needs to do now is to wait and his victim will walk
right into the trap …
There’s a women’s shelter in the harbor, and David passes the sign on his way down to the sea. Women with scarred souls, he thinks. Damaged, just like him. He knows that Rebecca Ernfridsson and Viola Malmborg are the brave people behind the shelter. They fight for beaten up women and try to protect them from their brutal ex-husbands. Why can’t anybody protect him from the ugly world?
David is blinded by the headlights of a black pick up-van on its way to the women’s shelter. He hides instinctively when it passes him. He doesn’t want to be seen; he’s disgusted by himself for being such a weakling and just wants to reach the cold water. But David becomes the only witness to a horrible crime, and later that night he swears never to have to witness Rebecca bleed again. Joakim Hill, crime inspector in Helsingborg in southern Sweden, is involved in a new murder case. He is forced to see the evil within mankind and to chase a sociopath murderer with no conscience.

Pages: 349
Published by Tre Böcker in August 2008

Reviews on earlier novels:

It is soon time to place the the queen’s crown of crime literature on her head.
Gefle Dagblad

The Story of the Night Receptionist is still another masterpiece.
Vestmanlands Läns Tidning

CRIME CODE 09
Brottskod 09

The archaeologist Anders D Persson falls in love with his Albanian assistant Lenore. But when she suddenly disappears, he is convinced that she has left him and that he has been fooled. A few months later in the dark Swedish autumn a dead young man is found outside the city Helsingborg in the south of Sweden. Detective Inspector Joakim Hill and his colleagues try to find out how and why this young man was killed in the slopes close to the sea. A nearby house has bloodstains on the stairs but the owners are away on a journey. What scenes have taken place there? Three prostitutes are found murdered in Göteborg. When Joakim Hill is asked to indentify them he recognizes one of the women as the journalist Lotta Jönsson. She was doing an article on trafficking. What happened, who did she meet?

Suddenly Marie, the daughter of one of the top managers within the Police is being kidnapped. She will be sold to a client with very special and dark habits. The time is ticking away for Joakim Hill – will he be able to make it? Will he rescue Marie and the other ones who are still alive?

Crime code 09 will be published in the summer 2007 by Tre Böcker Förlag. Earlier titles by Bodil Mårtensson have been translated into German (BTB Verlag) and Norwegian (DAMM).