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050 00 PT9877.22.A44|bO2713 2022
100 1 Lagercrantz, David
240 10 Obscuritas.|lEnglish.
245 10 Dark music /|cDavid Lagercrantz ; translated from the
Swedish by Ian Giles.
250 1st United States ed.
260 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2022.
300 365 p. ;|c25 cm.
500 KH-AUL-8.
500 "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
500 "Author of The Girl in the Spider's Web"--Dust jacket.
500 "Originally published in Sweden as Obscuritas by Norstedts
Forlag, Stockholm, in 2021."--Title page verso.
520 "Summer 2003: A soccer referee -- an immigrant from war-
torn Afghanistan -- is found dead after a youth match in a
Stockholm suburb. The father of one of the players, who
had threatened the ref, is quickly arrested, but he
protests his innocence. The police decide to consult
Professor Hans Rekke, a world-renowned authority on
interrogation and prisoner confessions. Things do not
proceed as planned as Rekke challenges the team's
assumptions and demolishes their case. The suspect is
released, and the police find themselves out of leads.
Only Micaela Vargas, a young officer from an immigrant
family and with brothers who make a living on the other
side of the law, refuses to let the matter rest, unable to
forget the ref's strange behaviour in his last game. She
tries to consult Rekke again, but the professor seems to
have dropped off the radar. A year later, a chance
encounter establishes an instant bond between these two
very different characters. Rekke's world has changed, but
Vargas enlists him to help solve the dormant case, and
they soon find themselves uncovering connections between
Sweden and the American "war on terror" in Afghanistan.
But was the murdered referee a victim or a perpetrator?
And why is the CIA -- and Rekke's own powerful brother --
determined to thwart the pair at every turn?"--|cProvided
by publisher.
650 0 Murder|xInvestigation|vFiction
650 0 Referees|vFiction
650 0 Police questioning|vFiction
650 0 Policewomen|zSweden|vFiction
700 1 Giles, Ian|c(Translator)