A captivating story with so many twists and turns, “The Second Deadly Sin
And after that, there is just no way you will put down the book. The need to know what happens next is so compelling.
A bear gone rogue, a murdered old woman, a missing little boy who is now an orphan, a disfigured policeman in love with a lovely and brilliant prosecutor and lovable working dogs – these dissonant characters were thrown in a small northern Swedish town where residents still remember incidents that happened 100 years ago as if they were there.
The crime – murder; the suspect – unknown. Even with good old fashion police work teaming up with the tech savvy CSI, the investigation was going nowhere. Except that Rebecka Martinsson a public prosecutor finds that there are too many coincidences in the case. And she does not believe in coincidences.
To the detriment of her career, Martinsson follows her gut feeling. What she finds could cost her life!
“The Second Deadly Sin
But, there is never a point in time that author Asa Larsson allowed her audience to lose focus on the story. The whole time, Larsson has her audience as the palm of her hand and holds them captive until the end.
“The Second Deadly Sin
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( votes)Oprah.com raved that Åsa Larsson’s Rebecka Martinsson is a crime fighter who has all the needed gut instincts,” and listed the series as “Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read.”
In The Second Deadly Sin, dawn breaks in a forest in northern Sweden. Villagers gather to dispatch a rampaging bear. When the beast is brought to ground they are horrified to find the remains of a human hand inside its stomach.
In nearby Kiruna, a woman is found murdered in her bed, her body a patchwork of vicious wounds, the word WHORE scrawled across the wall. Her grandson Marcus, already an orphan, is nowhere to be seen.
Grasping for clues, Rebecka Martinsson begins to delve into the victim’s tragic family history. But with doubts over her mental health still lingering, she is ousted from the case by an arrogant and ambitious young prosecutor.
Before long a chance lead draws Martinsson back into the thick of the action and her legendary courage is put to the test once more.
