The Living and the Dead (A Novel About a Crime)

THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two decades after a string of unsolved murders in a small working-class town, another body turns up, ripping apart friendships and community—a captivating mystery and graceful investigation of brotherhood and family by a leading criminologist and associate professor of criminology

"Carlsson is far and away my favorite Scandinavian crime writer at the moment, and The Living and the Dead is among his very best."—Fredrik Backman

Winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel • Winner of the Glass Key Award for Best Scandinavian Crime Novel

Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own.

In 1999, at the turn of the millennium, the Halland police discover a car crashed into a tree with a bloody steering wheel and the body of a teenage boy in the trunk. As the investigation unfolds, Officer Siri Bengtsson, a newcomer in town, keeps returning to two local boys, best friends whose stories she knows don't add up.

Twenty years later, a similar murder takes place, and seemingly resolved questions are reopened. Siri, who abruptly quit the force years before in frustration and despair, becomes the town's only hope to solve the killings and unpack a community's long-held secrets.

In The Living and the Dead, Christoffer Carlsson takes us to the fields and forests of Halland in Western Sweden, a region of farmers, mechanics, and truck drivers torn apart by economic injustice and self-deceit. Carlsson masterfully transports the reader to a world where the portal between the living and the dead is flung wide open, where no one is entirely innocent and decades-old crimes will not be forgotten.

This book title, The Living and the Dead (A Novel About a Crime), ISBN: 9780593733059, by Christoffer Carlsson, Rachel Willson-Broyles, published by Random House Publishing Group (December 2, 2025) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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