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"After reading it, there is only one answer: YES. "Victim without a face" is a fantastically exciting, well-written and engrossing book by 5 very big crime hearts." - The literature page

Fabian Risk is 43 years old and works in the police. Two of his colleagues were killed during the investigation of a complicated case, and Risk decides to leave Stockholm and start afresh in his hometown of Helsingborg.

Risk arrives in Helsingborg with his wife and two children in the middle of a meltingly hot July, and it is intended that Risk will start his new life with a six-week summer vacation before joining as an investigator at the station in Helsingborg. But after only a few hours in the city, he is contacted by his new boss, Astrid Tuvesson, regarding a brutal murder. The body of Jørgen Pålsson, who is Risk's old classmate, has been found - he has been brutally murdered and both hands have been cut off.

It doesn't take long before several bodies of former classmates turn up, and Risk very quickly finds himself in a serious case, the resolution of which becomes a race against time. And where he can largely play a role himself...

VICTIM WITHOUT A FACE is the story of how being ignored and overlooked, how the feeling of not belonging anywhere in the world, can damage a person so seriously and devastatingly that one ceases to be human. It is also the story of the ultimate revenge and the drive not to fade into oblivion - even long after death.

FACELESS VICTIM is the first volume in the Fabian Risk series.

LECTURER'S OPINION

"All readers of crime novels and viewers of crime film series will be well entertained by this effective novel that will be recommended from reader to new reader. With cinematic cross-cuts of the anonymous killer, glimpses into the consciousness of the victims and diary entries into the reality of the 11 days, the book takes place in, we get a highly dramatic crime and psychological thriller, where all familiar effects are utilized to the maximum to create an increasing tension. When familiar elements are combined so effectively and excitingly that the reading becomes intense despite the recognition and repetitions, then the level of entertainment is high." - Lecturer: Per Drustrup Larsen