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Dead sweet

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When a celebrated government official is found dead after his surprise birthday party, a young police officer uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives. Icelandic politician Katrìn Júlìusdóttir’s award-winning, breathtaking debut, and first in a chilling series.

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When a celebrated government official is found dead after his surprise birthday party, a young police officer uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives. Icelandic politician Katrìn Júlìusdóttir’s award-winning debut – first in a breathtaking series?
 
**Winner of the Blackbird Award for Best Icelandic Crime Debut**  

‘A breathtaking political thriller from one of Iceland’s most exciting new voices’ Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

‘Katrìn Júlìusdóttir skilfully weaves together intense family dynamics, dark pasts and criminal endeavours in this masterful narrative’ Lilja Sigurðardóttir
 
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A murder is just the beginning?
 
When Óttar Karlsson, a wealthy and respected government official and businessman, is found murdered, after failing to turn up at his own surprise birthday party, the police are at a loss. It isn’t until young police officer Sigurdìs finds a well-hidden safe in his impersonal luxury apartment that clues start emerging. 
 
As Óttar’s shady business dealings become clear, a second, unexpected line of enquiry emerges, when Sigurdìs finds a US phone number in the safe, along with papers showing regular money transfers to an American account. Following the trail to Minnesota, trauma rooted in Sigurdìs’s own childhood threatens to resurface and the investigation strikes chillingly close to home?
 
Atmospheric, deeply unsettling and full of breakneck twists and turns, Dead Sweet is a startling debut thriller that uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime, sinister cults and disturbing secret lives, and kicks off an addictive, mind-blowing new series.
 
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‘Exceptional and realistic characters ? Dead Sweet hooks you in from the very first page and keeps you there until the unexpected ending’ Blackbird Award judges: Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, Ragnar Jónasson and Bjarni Þorsteinsson
 
‘An excellent debut thriller with a highly original storyline’ Sæunn Gìsladóttir, The Reading Room
 
What readers are saying?
 
*****
 
‘Dark, chilling and twisty ? I couldn’t put it down’
 
‘Breathtakingly unnerving’
 
‘What an ending!’
 
‘So atmospheric, so clever’
 
‘Sigurdìs is a brilliant character’
 
‘The tension is almost unbearable ? I loved it!’

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Additional information

Dimensions 20.4 × 12.5 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

256

Language

English

Edition

Hardback original

Dewey

839.6935 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K