The Savage Altar
The Savage Altar by Åsa Larsson is a gripping novel published by Penguin Books in 2007, featuring 310 pages in English. The story unfolds in northern Sweden, where a man is found brutally murdered in a church, setting the stage for a complex investigation. Rebecka Martinsson, a tax lawyer from Stockholm, returns to her hometown of Kiruna to support her friend Sanna, whose brother is the victim. As Rebecka navigates the shadows of her past, she faces the challenges of a tight-knit community grappling with fear and suspicion.
Readers will find a narrative steeped in suspense and legal intrigue as Rebecka seeks to uncover the truth behind the murder while confronting her own emotional turmoil. The novel explores themes of friendship and the impact of guilt, all against the backdrop of a chilling crime that forces Rebecka to confront a web of deceit. With the aurora borealis illuminating the night sky, the story delves into the darker aspects of human nature and the lengths one will go to protect loved ones.
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Innocence will be sacrificed . . .
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…
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