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Dark Music
Rekke and Vargas (Related to this series)
- Author
- David Lagercrantz
- Narrator
- Matt Bates
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 18 August 2022
- Run Time
- 12 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
The launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. A murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy.
Professor Hans Rekke: born into a wealthy Stockholm family, world authority on interrogation techniques, capable of vertiginous feats of logic and observation . . . But he might just fall apart when the going gets tough, leading to substance abuse and despair.
Micaela Vargas: community police officer, born to Chilean political refugees in a tough suburb, with two brothers on the shady side of the law.
Vargas feels she has something to prove. She's tenacious and uncompromising, but she needs Rekke's unique mind to help her solve the case. Rekke has it all - wealth, reputation - but also a tendency to throw it all away. He needs Vargas to help him get back on an even keel so he can focus his mind on finding the killer before they're both silenced for good.
Translated from the Swedish by Ian Giles
(P) 2022 Quercus Editions Limited
Critics Review
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A crime thriller inspired by Sherlock Holmes, written by the author who successfully continued writing Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy sounds like a dream. But it's happened . . . You'll love the massive contrast in styles of the two main characters, as they cope with the ups and downs of a complicated investigation - one Holmes himself would have loved to solve
Independent
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Takes in the Taliban's hatred of music and musicians, the Americans' use of torture in the 'War on Terror' and much else. [A] rich, engrossing novel.
Literary Review
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Fans of dark Swedish crime will love this moody thriller from the guy who continued Stieg Larsson's dragon tattoo series
The Sun
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A slow burner with emphasis on character development, Dark Music is an intricately written and gripping Scandi-crime read - teeing up future stories for its protagonists
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Dark Music . . . has a cosmopolitan collection of oddball characters, and themes as diverse as classical
music and Sweden's antiterrorist policies.The Times (Best Thrillers 2022)
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A nerve-racking political thriller with the most exciting detective duo in a long time. Micaela Vargas, a fighter, and Hans Rekke, a tragic genius - characters so complex and engaging that you become addicted to them. Bring on their next case, David Lagercrantz!
Romy Hausmann, author of Dear Child
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A complex and dark Sherlock Holmesian tale, first in a new series by from The Girl in the Spider's Web author.
Irish Independent
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I have no choice but to surrender. David Lagercrantz knows his craft
Expressen
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An enormous amount of research is behind this story, everything from music-theoretical concepts to the rapidly growing class alienation of the noughties is depicted with precision
Dagens Nyheter
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An ambitious and complex plot that wants to follow the conventional thriller template on one hand, but on the other hand wants to tell us something more
Göteborgs-Posten
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Very entertaining . . . the depiction of the double act's friendship is finely tuned and poignant
Svenska Dagbladet
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The craftsmanship has been honed following the Millennium novels. As if he has imitated the winning concept to perfection . . . It works brilliantly
Expressen
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A must-read . . . Lagercrantz guides us with playful ease
Smålandsposten
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Fans of dark Swedish crime will love this moody thriller from the guy who continued Stieg Larsson's dragon tattoo series.
The Sun
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A murder investigation with complex international tendrils is well handled by Lagercrantz, and Ian Giles provides an idiomatic translation
Financial Times
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Details
- Author
- David Lagercrantz
- Narrator
- Matt Bates
- Duration
- 12 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 August 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529413212
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Espionage and spy thriller
Synopsis
A gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEBThe launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. A murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to uncover a shadowy international conspiracy.Professor Hans Rekke: born into a wealthy Stockholm family, world authority on interrogation techniques, capable of vertiginous feats of logic and observation . . . But he might just fall apart when the going gets tough, leading to substance abuse and despair.Micaela Vargas: community police officer, born to Chilean political refugees in a tough suburb, with two brothers on the shady side of the law.Vargas feels she has something to prove. She's tenacious and uncompromising, but she needs Rekke's unique mind to help her solve the case. Rekke has it all - wealth, reputation - but also a tendency to throw it all away. He needs Vargas to help him get back on an even keel so he can focus his mind on finding the killer before they're both silenced for good.Translated from the Swedish by Ian Giles(P) 2022 Quercus Editions Limited
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