Aurora boreal

On the floor of a church in Kiruna, the body of Viktor Strandgård, Sweden’s most famous preacher, lies mutilated and defiled–and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall....The victim’s sister has found the body, this turns her into the crime’s prime suspect. Desperate, she calls for help from her friend from her youth, attorney Rebecka Martinsson, who currently resides in Stockholm but who decides to return to her hometown to unmask the killer. During the investigation, Rebecka is only able to get help from a peculiar law enforcement officer, Anna-Maria Mella, a very intelligent (and pregnant) policewoman.

Åsa Larsson is a Swedish crime-writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of her novels, Rebecka Martinsson. Her first Rebecka Martinsson novel, Solstorm, was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers' Association prize for best first novel. It was published in the UK (under the title The Savage Altar) and was shortlisted for the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. Her second Rebecka Martinsson novel, Det blod som spillts, won the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award.