Cell 8
By: Roslund & Hellström ; translated from the original Swedish by Kari Dickson
Contributors: Hellström, Börge, 1957-; Dickson, Kari
Series: DCI Ewert Grens -- 3; Ewert Grens
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9781849161473; 9781849161480
Subjects: Fiction; Police; Revenge; Capital punishment
Work titles: Edward Finnigans upprättelse
Description: John Meyer Frey rots on Death Row in Utah for murdering a girl when he was 17. His victim's father is desperate for revenge, while his prison guard is torn by feelings of compassion for the young man. Both of them see their hopes thwarted when the killer dies of heart disease before he can be either justly punished or attain redemption.
Notes: Translated from the Swedish.
Table of contents: title: A dead man walking; a drunken brawl on a cheap weekend cruise in the Baltic sea; a man without identity: Ewert Grens and his colleagues have a long way to go in order to understand the puzzle in front of them. The highly challenging investigation has the worst possible consequences of the death penalty, with repercussions that reach from Death Row in Utah across the Atlantic into the Stockholm Police Headquarters.