Another time, another life
Subtitle: the story of a crime
By: Leif G.W. Persson ; translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen
Contributors: Norlén, Paul R.
Series: Fall of the Welfare State -- 2.
Publisher: Doubleday; Doubleday Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780385614191; 9781409011354; 9780385614207
Subjects: Fiction; Assassination; Terrorism investigation; Detective and mystery stories
Work titles: Annan tid, ett annat liv
Description: The story, based on real events linked to the assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, picks up in 1989, as the seemingly unrelated stabbing death of a civil servant is investigated by officers Bo Jarnebring and Anna Holt. Under the supervision of their cantankerous and corrupt superior, Evert Bäckström, the case gets surreptitiously swept under the rug, and the victim is tied to a string of sex-related crimes, despite evidence to the contrary. Another ten years pass before the confounding truth about the murder victim is unearthed. Just as Lars Martin Johansson, a friend of Jarnebring's, begins his tenure as the head of the Swedish Security Police, he inherits two files from his predecessor, one of which is on the murder victim - who turns out to have been a collaborator in the 1975 embassy takeover. Revealed now are not only the identities of the other collaborators but also the identity of the murderer: an intelligent, capable lawyer a heartbeat away from the top position in Sweden's Ministry of Defense.
Notes: Translated from the Swedish.