Name: Unspoken
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Author: Mari Jungstedt
ISBN: 9780552156134

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mari Jungstedt

Publisher

Corgi Books

Topic

novela extranjera

Language

English

Pages

366

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8 x 12.7 x 2.3 cm

ISBN

0552156132

ISBN13

9780552156134

Synopsis "Unspoken"

'Strong characters raise questions of how well we know those close to us...gripping' Financial Times The dead man was a drunk; a regular on the park benches of Gotland's city centre. He had been celebrating winning 80,000 Krona at the races. His body is discovered by one of his drinking buddies: he is drenched in blood and someone or something has left a hole the size of a fist in the back of his head. It's winter on the island of Gotland. The tourists have returned home. The tree branches are bare, the sky is sleet grey and the days are getting shorter and darker. Winter is a quiet time for Chief Inspector Anders Knutas and Detective Karin Jacobsson; the tourists tend to take the violent crimes with them back to the mainland. To keep their lives simple, they are tempted to assume that the victim died as a result of a drunken brawl over money. But all of the clues point to something far more sinister. Then 14-year old Fanny Jansson, a volunteer at the local stables, vanishes. At first Knutas and Jacobsson find it hard to believe that the two cases are linked: one is a violent murder, the other, the disappearance of a lonely and isolated child who has probably run away. Painstakingly, they work the clues, assisted by ambitious TV reporter Johan Berg. But what none of them realise is that truth is much closer to home than they'd ever imagine.

Mari Jungstedt

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Autora sueca, Mari Jungstedt comenzó su carrera como periodista en la televisión y la radio públicas de su país, además de lograr una gran popularidad al presentar el magazine diario Förkväll.

En lo literario, Jungstedt dio el salto a la fama con su serie de novelas negras y criminales ambientadas en la isla de Gotland, un enclave habitual como destino vacacional en Suecia, donde ella misma pasa los veranos ya que su marido procede de su capital.

La mayor parte de sus novelas están protagonizadas por el inspector Anders Knutas y el periodista Johan Berg. Jungstedt ha sido traducida a varios idiomas como el inglés, el francés, el griego, el polaco, el portugués o el castellano, y cuatro de sus libros han sido llevados a la televisión en formato de película y de serie.

De entre su obra habría que destacar títulos como Nadie lo ha visto —su debut— o El arte del asesino.

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