What has to do with creating a good school is that in the end there are advantageous students. In the inexhaustible Nordic quarry of the black genre, asa larsson It is one of those promises from a decade ago that remains established among the best sellers of this genre with such a strong denomination of origin.
The first thing Asa did was to outline his alter ego, a woman named Rebecka Martinsson, a lawyer, insightful, brave and devoted to any lost cause in the criminal or the enigmatic.
Rebecka's profile does not strictly comply with that of an armed authority who is supposed to have capacities for self-defense and her body's own resources towards the best persecution of evil. She is "only" a lawyer, but has resources and instinct, an invincible mix towards solving any case.
And from the hand of Rebecka Asa has been making his way through good stories about unsuspected crimes and tricky causes in which his instinct stands out greatly. Rebecka's own life takes risks at times, but with her strength and tenacity she overcomes everything.
Asa and Rebecka a literary tandem like so many others, created from the symmetry of a mirror. With a few exceptions, most stories feature the good Rebecka as a star character, who many readers around the world have already made a bit of their own.
top 3 recommended novels by Asa Larsson
The sins of our fathers
Over the years the worst sins can relax their secret. More than a legal prescription, the matter may be due to a final assumption of the debt with the worst creditor: the soul. And then the years that have passed are sinking into a swamp and the particular experiences and even the general imaginary of a place gain a gray tone that breaks any plan of tacit good coexistence. And all this although sometimes the underworld seems inhabited by soulless people.
Forensic pathologist Lars Pohjanen has only weeks to live when he asks Rebecka Martinsson to investigate a murder that occurred no less than sixty years ago. The body of the father of a famous boxer who disappeared in 1962 without a trace is now discovered in the freezer of an alcoholic found dead. Rebecka agrees to get involved in the case, even though she hides a personal connection to it.
His investigations will lead him to the "Cranberry King", who was the kingpin of organized crime in the region for decades. An organized crime whose tentacles continue to slowly take over the city, with a Kiruna being demolished and moved a few kilometers away to make room for the mine that has been devouring the population from below and now exposing it to dubious interests.
A novel of relentless force and tension for which it has received the Adlibris Best Thriller Award, the Storytel Awards Best Crime Novel Award and, for the third time in its successful career, the best crime novel of the year from the Swedish Academy.
Aurora borealis
It usually happens quite frequently in the black novel genre. The first work of an author incorporated into this genre, if it is really good, triumphs yes or yes. It is almost a necessity, readers of the genre are always eager for that new touch with which to enjoy those authentic thrillers that are crime novels. Aurora Borealis starts off strong, as if to capture undecided readers. A preacher torn to pieces and presented as a macabre offering...
Summary: The body of Victor Strandgard, Sweden's most famous preacher, lies mutilated in a remote church in Kiruna, a northern city submerged in eternal polar night.
The victim's sister has found the body, and suspicion hangs over her. Desperate, she turns to her childhood friend, lawyer Rebecka Martinsson, who currently lives in Stockholm and returns to her hometown to find out who the real culprit is.
During the investigation, he only had the complicity of Anna-Maria Mella, an intelligent and peculiar pregnant policewoman. In Kiruna many people seem to have something to hide, and the snow will soon be stained with blood.
The dark path
The best assassins are the hitmen that power can buy. Sometimes they even allow themselves the luxury of leaving footprints, symbol marks, hunter's displays on their trophy, or signs of a sinister drift from the one who tasted the blood, liked it, and comes back for more.
Summary: A woman is found dead in a frozen lake. His body, tortured, has a strange burn around his ankle. From the first moment, Inspector Anna-Maria Mella knows that she needs help.
The corpse is of one of the executives of a mining company whose tentacles extend all over the world. Anna-Maria needs a lawyer to explain a few things to her about the business, and she knows the best.
Attorney Rebecka Martinsson is desperate to get back to work after a case that has torn her apart, and accepts Anna-Maria Mella's proposal.
His investigations reveal a complex and sinister relationship between the victim, his brother and the director of the company. Everything seems to indicate a sexual motive, but the shady businesses of Kallis Mining will open another avenue of investigation.
Other recommended books by Asa Larsson
The Cursed Staff
Why not read a comic along with Asa and other authors? You would be pleasantly surprised. Mariefred becomes a town with a strange esoteric touch, nineteenth-century evocations and customs that are related to the trickery and black magic of a library that houses gigantic secrets beyond its small location.
Summary: Strange things happen in Mariefred. The town hides an enigmatic library that the forces of good and evil dispute. For a long time tranquility has reigned, until now ... Everything indicates that Viggo and Alrikson, two brothers who arrive as foster care in Mariefred, are the ones chosen to protect the library.
But their old guardians do not trust that they are prepared to be warriors and will put them to the test. The situation is extremely dangerous. Someone tries to get rid of Alrik and Viggo and the two must show both courage and intelligence to survive.
