Memoria
Original title: Memoria
Author: David Lagercrantz
Original publisher: Norstedts förlag 2023
Genre: Crime Fiction
“A classic murder mystery . . . one Holmes himself would have loved to solve.”
– The Independent, About Obscuritas
Claire Lidman has been dead for fourteen years, but Samuel, Claire’s husband, refuses to accept it. When he sees a woman in the background of a photography who looks just like Claire, he turns to Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas for help. The two are at first sceptical, but Rekke discovers details in the photo that indicate that it really is Claire. Is it possible? Or are they taking on the case as an excuse to continue working together? The investigation leads them back in time and Rekke is forced to revisit painful memories from his own past.
Meanwhile, and maybe just by pure coincidence, Rekke’s daughter Julia gets a new boyfriend whom she absolutely wants to keep a secret. And Micaela is continuously harassed and threatened by her criminal brother Lucas. But she’s not scared. It’s not until she realises who Julia’s new love is, that her world collapses, and Rekke realises that he again must face off with the nemesis from his youth, Gabor Morovia.
Memoria takes us back to the banking crisis of the 1990s, and the oligarchs’ battle with the old KGB. In the second instalment of David Lagercrantz Rekke/Vargas Series, brutal crimes are revealed as well as their effects on individual lives. The investigation therein, impacts Professor Hans Rekke and police officer Micaela Vargas on a deeply personal level.
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