The Last Lullaby: Hammarby Book 3
By (Author) Carin Gerhardsen
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
29th July 2015
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
839.738
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
234g
The brilliant third title in the Hammarby series from Swedish crime-writing sensation, Carin Gerhardsen Inspector Conny Sj berg and his police colleagues are perplexed by the brutal killing of a family in their Stockholm apartment. With no clues, the murder inquiry starts with working out how it was possible for the mother, who worked as a cleaner, to afford a multi-million dollar property An under-strength team - with officers ill, injured or mysteriously missing - is not Conny's only problem. From a woman he cannot get out of his head, to a shocking revelation about his own past, everything is threatening to compromise the hunt for this heartless killer...
Carin Gerhardsen writes so vividly, like she is painting with words, gripping your heart and soul in an ever-tightening tourniquet -- Peter James
The pages turn themselves, right up to the final startling twist -- John Verdon
The books are fast-paced and addictive: finely tuned pieces that virtually demand to be read in one sitting -- Barry Forshaw
Carin Gerhardsen was born in 1962 in Katrineholm, Sweden. Originally a mathematician, she enjoyed a successful career as an IT consultant before turning her hand to writing crime fiction. Carin now lives in Stockholm with her husband and their two children, and is working on the Hammarby series, which began withThe Gingerbread House and Cinderella Girl and continues with The Last Lullaby.