Author(s): TORQUIL MACLEOD

Crime Fiction

Anita Sundström, out of the force for a year after her resignation, is approached by a dying woman to track a collection of paintings stolen from her family. They were looted by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. But needing the money, Anita takes on this seemingly impossible task. As she heads off to Hungary, she has no idea of the dangers ahead. With a new Skane County Police commissioner wanting to make his mark in Malmo, the Criminal Investigation Squad is under pressure when they are called in to solve the killing of a private investigator. The nature of the victim's work throws up some obvious suspects, yet not all is what it seems. When another murder takes place, there seems to be a politically sensitive connection. Anita Sundström, out of the force for a year after her resignation, is approached by a dying woman to track down a collection of paintings stolen from her family. The paintings were looted by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944. But needing the money, Anita takes on this seemingly impossible task. As she heads off to Hungary, she has no idea of the dangers ahead. This is the eighth mystery in the best-selling Anita Sundström crime series. AUTHOR: Torquil MacLeod was an advertising copywriter for 36 years. Born in Edinburgh, he now lives in Cumbria, with his wife, Susan. He came up with the idea for his Malmö detective, Inspector Anita Sundström, after the elder of his two sons moved to southern Sweden in 2000, and the author befriended two police detectives (both of whom worked out of the Ystad police station, the town in which author Henning Mankell's set his Kurt Wallander crime series!). 9780857161871 Book 1 Meet Me in Malmö: The First Inspector Anita Sundström Mystery 9780857161147 Book 2 Murder in Malmö: The Second Inspector Anita Sundström Mystery 9780857161154 Book 3 Missing in Malmö: The Third Inspector Anita Sundström Mystery 9780857161307 Book 4 Midnight in Malmö: The Fourth Inspector Anita Sundström Mystery 9780857161734 Book 5 Menace in Malmo: The Fifth Inspector Anita Sundström Mystery 9780857161871 Book 6 Malice in Malmö: The Sixth Inspector Anita Sundström Mystery 9780857162076 Book 7 Mourning in Malmö: The Seventh Inspector Anita Sundström Mystery 9780857162106 Book 8 Mammon in Malmo: The Eighth Inspector Anita Sundstrom Mystery 9780857162380 Book 9 Mission in Malmö: The Ninth Inspector Anita Sundström Mystery