Bad Blood
By: Arne Dahl ; translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles
Contributors: Willson-Broyles, Rachel, translator
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780375425363
Subjects: Police; Serial murder investigation; Fiction
Work titles: Ont Blod
Description: When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. With no clear motive in sight, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrime's A-Unit learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting information secretly developed during the Vietnam War-- allowing the victim to whisper, but not to scream-- but also that it was the modus operandi of an allegedly deceased homicidal maniac known only as the Kentucky Killer.