num_pages: 406
description: From the dean of Scandinavian noir, come s a riveting mystery set in frozen north of Sweden. .When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow — as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague, but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman becomes more and more reckless as he unearths the chilling links between Molin’s death and an underground neo-Nazi network that runs further and deeper than he could ever have imagined.
language: English
title: The Return of the Dancing Master
titlecomplete: The Return of the Dancing Master
characters: Veronica Molin, Herbert Molin, Giuseppe Larsson, Stefan Lindman
genres: Thriller, Detective, Swedish Literature, Scandinavian Literature, Crime, Sweden, Nordic Noir, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 8820
places: Sweden
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Gumshoe Award
category: Best European Crime Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Zilveren Vingerafdruk, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize)
category: Publikumspreis
publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard