Femicide: Volume 1 (Vanessa Frank, 1, Band 1) - Softcover

Engman, Pascal

 
9781915054432: Femicide: Volume 1 (Vanessa Frank, 1, Band 1)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1915054435 ISBN 13: 9781915054432
Verlag: Legend Press Ltd, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

'Fresh, brilliant writing and utterly compelling, I loved it' Peter James When 25-year-old Emelie is found murdered in her Stockholm apartment the same week her ex-partner is released from prison, it feels like an open and shut case for Detective Vanessa Frank. Who else would launch such a frenzied attack on the young woman? But Frank suspects there is something they’re missing. Could the killing be linked to the rising online movement of men who want to punish women, the so-called ‘incels’? When a survivor of brutal sexual assault comes forward, Frank uncovers more about this shadowy group who, in their own words, have weaponised the gender war and will stop at nothing to make themselves heard. Desperate to stop any further attacks, Frank escalates the investigation when a music festival intended to be a safe space for women becomes a potential target. 'A real page-turner, from the first to the last page' Camilla Lackberg 'Irresistible reading' David Lagercrantz, author of The Girl in the Spider’s Web - Millennium series by Stieg Larsson 'He never lets go of the reader’s desire to know just how the hell this is going to go' Fredrik Backman, best-selling author of A Man Called Ove 'He absorbs the reader so you can’t stop reading' Inga-Lill Mosander

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Following the publication of his first book The Patriots, in 2017, Pascal Engman became the best-selling Swedish crime novelist of his generation. He has been acclaimed by Camilla Läckberg, David Lagercrantz, The Swedish Crime Writers' Academy and others as a rising star of Swedish crime fiction. Engman, who resides in his native Stockholm, was born to a Swedish mother and a Chilean father. He was a journalist at Swedish evening newspaper Expressen.

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PROLOGUE
A PLASTIC BAG had got stuck in the wire fence that
surrounded A° kersberga Prison. Twenty-five-year-old Emelie
Ryde´n turned the key in the ignition of her green Kia and
the engine fell silent. She leaned forward, rested her head
on the wheel.
Two years earlier, she had given birth to their daughter,
Nova. Now she was here to end it with Karim, the man she
had thought was the love of her life.
Emelie was scared. She straightened her back, raised
her top lip and examined herself in the rear-view mirror.
The bottom half of one of her front teeth was yellow. Four
years before, Karim had flung her into a radiator during
an argument. Emelie had fainted. When she came round,
he had gone. Forty-eight hours later, he’d come home,
stinking of bars and sweat, and asked for forgiveness with
bloodshot eyes.
Emelie opened the car door and put her foot down in a
puddle that had formed in a pothole. She had to bring this to
an end. For Nova’s sake. Her daughter didn’t deserve to grow
up with her father behind bars. Even if Karim was going to
be released in three months’ time, Emelie was certain that he
would be back. Sooner or later. Probably sooner.
She walked with long strides towards the visitor entrance,
pressed the bell and was let in. For three years, with only a
few exceptions, she’d been here every week. Nova had been
conceived in one of the visiting rooms. Some of the prison
officers showed empathy, others thinly veiled contempt.
Over the years, she’d done all she could to keep her head
held high, to walk the corridors with her back straight. She
recognised the officer in reception. He was quiet, seemed shy.
Despite them having met on several occasions, he gave no
indication of knowing who she was.
“I’m going to see Karim Laimani,” said Emelie.
The officer nodded.
“Could I borrow a pen?”
He kept his eyes fixed on the screen as he handed over a
biro. Emelie unfolded Nova’s drawing and added the date in
the top right-hand corner.
The procedure after that was the same as always: jacket,
bag, mobile phone and keys were locked in a cabinet. She was
then led over to the metal detector and searched. Emelie held
out her arms and let the officer pat her down.
“Follow me,” he said mechanically as he pushed an access
card against the reader. They walked down the corridor, then
off to the right. The officer first, Emelie behind him with
Nova’s folded drawing in her hand. He stopped in front of
a white door with a round glass window. Emelie peered in.
Karim was sitting there with his hands on the tabletop. The
hood on his grey sweatshirt was up. The door was pushed
open and Emelie stepped into the little room. She took a
deep breath. Her hands and legs were shaking. She rehearsed
everything she was about to say as the door was pulled to
behind her.
Karim stood up. It was as if the words she’d learned by rote
had been blown away. He pulled her towards him, grabbing
hold of her breast.
“Karim, stop...”
He pretended not to hear her, instead pressing his groin
against hers and pushing his tongue into her mouth. She
pushed him away.
“What the fuck is up with you?” he said.
Karim stared at her angrily for a couple of seconds,
turned around and sat down on the chair. Emelie placed
Nova’s drawing on the table in front of him. He glanced at it
impassively.
“You’ve put weight on. You’re not up the duff again, are
you?”
Emelie straightened a lock of hair that had fallen out of
place. She opened her mouth, but her throat was dry. Once she
had said those words, she would no longer be his girlfriend,
but an enemy. In Karim’s world, everything was black and
white. Those words could never be unsaid. She cleared her
throat and tried to keep her voice steady.
“I don’t want us to be together any more.”
Karim raised his eyebrows. His fingers made a scratching
sound as he pushed them through his dark stubble.
“Stop it.”
“It can’t work,” she said. Her voice cracked. She cleared
her throat once more. “I can’t take any more.”
Karim’s eyes narrowed. The chair legs scraped across the
floor as he slowly got to his feet, his jaws grinding as he
moved towards her.
“Do you think that’s up to you?”
He was almost touching her. Emelie braced herself.
“Please...” she whispered as her eyes welled up. She
closed them. Swallowed. “Can’t you just let me go? You can
see Nova when you come out.”
“Are you fucking someone?”
“No.”
Karim’s face stopped ten centimetres or so from hers. He
sniffed the air. “Oh yes, you’ve always been shit at lying.
Have you been running around town opening your legs? You
stupid. Fucking. Whore.”
Emelie turned around, reaching for the door handle. Karim
got there first and grabbed hold of her.
“You won’t get away with it. If I find out you’ve been
opening your cunt for anyone else, I will kill you.”
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The prison officer flung open the door. Karim let go and
held up his palms. Emelie pulled her arm in and rubbed her
wrist.
The next second, the visiting room echoed with Karim’s
voice.
“I will kill you. Just you wait. You are going to regret
this,” he roared.
The officer stepped in between them.
“Calm down.”
Karim stared at Emelie over the guard’s shoulder. As he
backed away, he...

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Verlag
Legend Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1915054435
ISBN 13 
9781915054432
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
399
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