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The Blood Spilt
A Mystery Novel by Åsa Larsson
Book 2 of the Rebecka Martinsson Series
Subgenres:
- Scandinavian Noir,
- Folk Horror,
- Psychological Thriller
This book is for you if you're into...
- Folk horror vibes in sun-drenched Scandinavian villages
- Murder mysteries tangled with faith, folklore, and female rage
- Atmosphere so thick you could cut it with a sacrificial knife
From Little Stack
A murdered priest, a sun-drenched village, and secrets as old as the midnight sun.
If The Wicker Man (yes, that again. It’s very influential!) met Scandi noir in the land of eternal daylight, you’d get The Blood Spilt, a chilling, twisty summer thriller that feels like midsummer filtered through a bloodstained lens. Åsa Larsson serves up icy mystery and simmering tension in equal measure, as big-city lawyer Rebecka Martinsson is pulled back to a small northern town where a beloved feminist priest has been brutally killed… just as midsummer approaches.
The locals are tight-lipped, the church hides more than prayers, and there's a creeping, ritualistic undercurrent that’ll have you side-eyeing every bonfire and floral crown. Rebecka’s not just solving a murder, she’s unraveling the whole rotten tangle of faith, folklore, and female rage buried beneath the surface.
With an atmosphere so thick you could cut it with a sacrificial knife, this is folk horror meets crime thriller, soaked in sun that never sets… and darkness that never left.
Come for the murder. Stay for the haunting.
SWEDEN'S BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR • A disturbing, entrancing, and beautifully crafted mystery set in northern Sweden, from the acclaimed author of Sun Storm.
It's midsummer in Sweden—when the light lingers through dawn and a long, isolating winter finally comes to an end. In this magical time, a brutal killer has chosen to strike. A female priest—who made enemies and acolytes in equal number—has been found hanging in her church. And a big-city lawyer quite acquainted with death enters the scene as police and parishioners try to pick up the pieces.
Not long ago, attorney Rebecka Martinsson had to kill three men in order to stop an eerily similar murder spree—one that also involved a priest. Now she is back in Kiruna, the region of her birth, while a determined policewoman gnaws on the case and people who loved or loathed the victim mourn or revel in her demise.
The further Rebecka is drawn into the mystery—a mystery that will soon take another victim—the more the dead woman's world clutches her: a world of hurt and healing, sin and sexuality, and, above all, of sacrifice.
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