Story of a Crime Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: The Story of a Crime (1), (Paperback)

from col2910

Synopsis/blurb.... The first novel in a trilogy that has become the defining account of the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme - an event that still haunts the collective Swedish memory. Beginning with the death of an unknown American citizen in Stockholm, Leif G.W. ...

from RowingRabbit

This is the first of a trilogy that traces the the history of Swedish politics from post WWII social democrats to the present day rise of far right groups. Book #1 is a biting political satire that follows a whack of characters who all have ties to the country's police & secret security services....

from WinstonDog

Swedish author. Very different style- not quite Hemmingway but very wordy. 300 pages into a 549 novel and just now getting an inkling what might be happening. I'll report back when I am finished.

from austcrimefiction

As Leif G.W. Persson is a new author for me, I was interested to read the bio in this book: "Leif Persson is the Grand Master of Scandinavian crime fiction. Over three decades, he has taken a scalpel to the political and social mores of Swedish society in dark, complex and satirical crime novels....

from jkdavies

Well, an interesting book... very multi-perspectived which wasn't always easy to keep track of but suited the multi-layered story... Because of the multiple perspectives, it kept you guessing who was hero, who was villain in the book, and of course with the realistic ambiguity in life, sometimes ...