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Overview

The Inner Circle opens with an international group of young archeology students sweating on a dig on the island of Gotland, uncovering a Viking fortification dating back over a millennium. They are a fun-loving lot, partying together every night, but the good vibe turns to horror when one of them, twenty-one-year-old Martina Flochten, disappears. Her body is found a short while later, naked, bled out, and hanging from a tree. Her injuries indicate that she is the victim of a ritual killing.

Inspector Anders Knutas investigates Martina’s acquaintances. Who was the mysterious lover she was supposed to have been meeting in secret and whom none of her fellow...

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Overview

The Inner Circle opens with an international group of young archeology students sweating on a dig on the island of Gotland, uncovering a Viking fortification dating back over a millennium. They are a fun-loving lot, partying together every night, but the good vibe turns to horror when one of them, twenty-one-year-old Martina Flochten, disappears. Her body is found a short while later, naked, bled out, and hanging from a tree. Her injuries indicate that she is the victim of a ritual killing.

Inspector Anders Knutas investigates Martina’s acquaintances. Who was the mysterious lover she was supposed to have been meeting in secret and whom none of her fellow archaeologists have actually seen? What do the marks on Martina’s body signify? Is there possibly a connection between Martina’s death and the recent and unsolved brutal beheading of a Gotland pony? The pony was also bled out, and its head was missing—-until it appears mounted on a stick outside the next victim’s house.

Inspector Knutas and his team work feverishly to catch the killer, but before long there are more victims, all of whom have been killed and mutilated the same way.

Mari Jungstedt integrates a healthy dose of Scandinavian mythology in this installment of her critically acclaimed series, and also addresses current issues on Gotland, while keeping up a fast-paced and intricate plot as Knutas closes in on the killer and the secret that connects the victims. This is Swedish crime fiction at its best: dark, atmospheric, and character-driven.

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In summer the Baltic island of Gotland, Beowulf's old stomping ground, offers stunning scenery for tourists and white nights for love and lust, all of which shape the backdrop of Det. Supt. Anders Knutas's investigation into one horrifying crime after another in Swedish author Jungstedt's absorbing third police procedural (after 2007's Unspoken). The decapitation of a harmless pony is followed by the "threefold" Viking ritual murder of a female archeology student, who's been carrying on a torrid affair with a secret lover, then two more grisly executions, all punctuated by chilling glimpses into a psychopathic mind. The fluid translation evokes the stark economy of the ancient sagas, where all that mattered was how one fought and died. A little of that old warrior spirit still inhabits Jungstedt's tired, frustrated Swedish policemen and journalists, facing monsters within and without and, like Beowulf, never giving in. (Dec.)

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When the body of a decapitated pony is found in a field, residents of the town of Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland are shocked. Police Supt. Anders Knutas and his team soon have their hands full when a young archaeology student disappears after a party and is then found dead. Just as the pony's blood has been drained, so has the student's at the scene of the crime. Is her killing connected? Jungstedt's third police procedural to be released here (after Unseen and Unspoken) features shockingly brutal murders and a tightly plotted story with an unexpected ending. This is one of the best reads of the year. [See Prepub Mystery, LJ8/08; library marketing.]


—Jo Ann Vicarel

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312363789
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press
  • Publication date: 11/25/2008
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Pages: 288
  • Series: Inspector Anders Knutas Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.20 (d)

Meet the Author

MARI JUNGSTEDT has worked as a radio and television journalist for fourteen years. This is her third mystery in a series set on the island of Gotland off the coast of Sweden, where the author spends her summers. The rest of the year Mari lives in Stockholm with her family. She is currently at work on her sixth book.

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  • Posted May 10, 2010

    Excellent

    The book is the best of it's genre; it's witty, interesting and Chilling all in one. If Hollywood is looking to make an excellent movie, this book is hot and could quite possibly be the next summer blockbuster. This book is definitely for older teens because of my personal favorite characteristic of the book, the description of every spine chilling detail.

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  • Posted September 12, 2009

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    Such a sense of place and atmosphere.

    I am reading this genre for both plot, place and atmosphere.The Swedish island setting sets the scene for the characters.
    It is the best of it's type.

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