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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)