num_pages: 551
description: A young man falls to his death from a window in a student dorm in Stockholm his loose shoe striking and killing the little dog being taken for his evening walk by an old man. It seems to be a mundane suicideat least thats what the police choose to think. But the young man is American not Swedish and there are a couple of odd things about his room when they search it. . . . From these tiny beginnings Leif GW Persson slowly begins to unravel a puzzle that gets larger and larger as it becomes more and more complex until it sweeps us into a web of international espionage backroom politics greed sheer incompetence and the shoddy work of Swedens intelligence force that leads to the murder of the prime minister. The first novel in a dark and dazzling trilogy that has become the defining fictional account of the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palmean event that triggered the biggest criminal investigation in recorded historyBetween Summers Longing and Winters End is a riveting insiders combination of black satire thriller psychological drama and police procedural by a writer universally acknowledged as Swedens leading criminologist.
language: English
title: Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime
publisher: Pantheon