In woodland outside Ystad, the police make a horrific discovery: a severed head, and hands locked together in an attitude of prayer. A Bible lies at the victim’s side, the pages marked with scribbled corrections. A string of macabre incidents,...
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Автор: Hammer Lotte , Hammer Søren
Серия: Konrad Simonsen #1
Язык: английский
Год: 2013
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"The best Danish crime fiction in years." – Lars Kepler
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