num_pages: 320
description: In the chilling follow-up to Some Kind of Peace Siri Bergman returns to investigate a brutal murder case centered in the dark world of domestic abuse.Its a rainy evening in a Stockholm suburb and five-year-old Tilde is hiding under the kitchen table playing with her crayons when a man enters and beats her mother to death in cold blood. Tilde cant quite see the murderer but shes the only witness.Across town psychologist Siri Bergman and her friend Aina are meeting with their old friend Vijay who wants them to host a self-help group for victims of domestic abuse. Over the course of several evenings five very different women share their stories of impossible love violence and humiliation. At the same time Siri finds herself at a crossroadsshes carrying her boyfriends child but is still beset by doubts and fears.Swedish sisters Camilla Grebe and sa Trff weave all these threads together so that the search for healing and the ability to love again are soon transformed into a hunt for Tildes mothers killer. Everyone is a suspect: the many men in the victims life her own son even some of the women in the self-help group. Grebe and Trff combine the chills of first-rate crime novels with palpable emotion and personal experience (Trff is a real-life psychologist) as More Bitter Than Death builds to a shocking conclusion.
language: English
title: More Bitter Than Death
publisher: Simon  Schuster