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This Land Is No Stranger

September 30, 2022 by Melanie

An excellent, thrill-filled action adventure set in a freezing Swedish winter, starkly beautiful and deadly. Former NYPD Detective Veronika Brand has no idea of the web of violence and destruction she’s been lured into with a simple invitation to her Swedish great aunt’s 95th birthday celebration. Political corruption, racial prejudice and bloody revenge feature prominently in this suspenseful noir novel. It’s quite graphically violent but that did not dampen my enjoyment of a well put together story with a strong though deeply flawed heroine.  -Amazon Review
 

This Land is no Stranger:
A Nordic Mystery Thriller

 

With a career that is spiraling out of control and a nasty drug habit that has taken her to rock bottom, NYC detective Veronika Brand is looking for a way out. When a call from Sweden interrupts her personal chaos, the foreign tongue of her distant Swedish relatives pulls her across the Atlantic with the lure of adventure and escape. But what she finds is far from the idyllic picture her grandmother painted. Instead of long languid summers basking in the midnight sun, she unearths secrets long since buried in the frozen ground.

In Krister Hammar, a local Sami land rights lawyer, she thinks she has found a kindred spirit. But when they stumble upon a brutal murder scene in a manor house owned by the rivals of her family, she starts questioning his truth. She finds herself being moved like a chess piece between the desolate region of Härjedalen in the north and the steely-cold streets of Stockholm, scrambling to find the links between her family history, a trail of missing Roma girls, and a series of vicious murders. In unfamiliar territory on the wrong side of the law, Veronika has her sights set only on the beast that preys on the wicked. Will she be able to see past the lure of the northern lights to the dark secrets that threaten to destroy her?

If you like the book “The Kingdom” by Jo Nesbø you will definitely enjoy reading This Land Is No Stranger”.

With a spin on traditional Nordic noir and Scanoir genres, this murder mystery thriller follows female protagonist and disgraced NYC cop Veronika Brand as she escapes her homegrown problems only to find herself in unfamiliar territory in the home of her ancestors, Sweden.

The hallmarks of Swedish suspense fiction made popular by Henning Mankell, Camilla Läckberg, and Stieg Larsson are cleverly combined with new crime fiction that explores social, cultural, and economic power, both from historical and modern perspectives. Sweden, Swedish culture and Nordic identity are explored in this cleverly written suspense drama that keeps the reader guessing right to the very end.

This new approach to Swedish suspense fiction breaks from traditional approaches by showing the cultural context through the eyes of a protagonist who is a non-native. The topics and themes explored in this book go beyond crime fiction, putting This Land Is No Stranger on track to be one of the best books of 2021.

 

This Land is no Stranger is an intriguing family saga intertwined with the fascinating world of the mysterious Roma people. Set in Sweden’s dark winter, this compelling, edge-of-your-seat novel is rife with murder, mayhem, and bodes the question, who will survive.    –Donna Moreau, Author of Waiting Wives

 

 

 

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