Post Mortem
The third novel in a gripping Scandi crime series inspired by Sherlock Holmes
Will be published approx. on 27. August 2026
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-5294-1328-1 (ISBN)
Description
Professor Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas have earned a reputation for solving the unsolvable. But they've never been confronted by a serial killer.
That changes when Rekke receives a visit from Spanish chief inspector Rafael Corales, who is unable to forget the unsolved murder of a young woman in Santander in 1988. Now other bodies have come to light, marked with signs that seem to be some kind of numerical order.
Still recovering from his latest hypomanic episode - his relationship with Vargas strained by a secret she's keeping - Rekke agrees to help track down the killer.
Clues from a posthumously published short story by the victim draw him undercover into the murky world of Sweden's literary scene - authors, agents and producers who are past masters at selling a lie. To unmask the killer, Rekke must relearn the difference between fact and fiction, and discover what really happened that night in Santander in 1988.
Reviews for Dark Music and Fatal Gambit
"A classic murder mystery . . . one Holmes himself would have loved to solve" Independent
"Fans of dark Swedish crime will love this moody thriller" The Sun
"A rich, engrossing novel" Literary Review
Translated from the Swedish by Ian Giles
That changes when Rekke receives a visit from Spanish chief inspector Rafael Corales, who is unable to forget the unsolved murder of a young woman in Santander in 1988. Now other bodies have come to light, marked with signs that seem to be some kind of numerical order.
Still recovering from his latest hypomanic episode - his relationship with Vargas strained by a secret she's keeping - Rekke agrees to help track down the killer.
Clues from a posthumously published short story by the victim draw him undercover into the murky world of Sweden's literary scene - authors, agents and producers who are past masters at selling a lie. To unmask the killer, Rekke must relearn the difference between fact and fiction, and discover what really happened that night in Santander in 1988.
Reviews for Dark Music and Fatal Gambit
"A classic murder mystery . . . one Holmes himself would have loved to solve" Independent
"Fans of dark Swedish crime will love this moody thriller" The Sun
"A rich, engrossing novel" Literary Review
Translated from the Swedish by Ian Giles
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
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Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5294-1328-1 (9781529413281)
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David Lagercrantz
Post Mortem
The third novel in a gripping Scandi crime series inspired by Sherlock Holmes
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David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, and is an acclaimed author and journalist. In 2015 The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015), his continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, became a worldwide bestseller and was made into a film by Sony Pictures (2018). He is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Fall of Man in Wilmslow, and the fifth and sixth books in the Millennium series, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017) and The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019). His Rekke and Vargas Investigations, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, have continued his record of international bestsellers.