The author is a psychological profiler, a professor at Sweden's National Police Board and is considered the country's foremost expert on crime. He is also a helluva writer, winner of numerous awards and his works are now being translated into English.
Lars Johansson has been retired from the police force, where he was the Chief, for over three years when he is felled by a stroke. A physician in the hospital provides him with a lead that puts him back in the saddle as solves a 25-year-old murder as a civilian, but one who pulls in quite a few favors. At the center of the story is Sweden's 2010 law that proscribed murder prosecutions for crimes more than 25 years old. In essence, the traditional rule that there is no statute of limitations for murder has been changed in Sweden. This is a really good novel.
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