The savage altar
By: Åsa Larsson ; translated by Marlaine Delargy
Contributors: Delargy, Marlaine, translator
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780141024714; 9780141030340
Subjects: Murder; Fiction; Investigation; Women lawyers; Cults; Friendship; Suspense fiction
Other titles: Sun Storm
Work titles: Solstorm
Description: On the floor of a church in northern Sweden, the body of a man lies ritually mutilated and defiled and in the night sky, the aurora borealis dances as the snow begins to fall. Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the small town she'd left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm tax lawyer, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the church of the cult he helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor, and to confront the rumours circulating in a closed and frightened community. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark and impossible to guess.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Viking, 2007.

Translated from the Swedish.