Fatal Gambit: A Mystery (Rekke Series) - Softcover

Lagercrantz, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0593312937 ISBN 13: 9780593312933

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2025

Synopsis

David Lagercrantz's detective duo, Rekke and Vargas, returns in a new installment of the internationally best-selling series that began with Dark Music (“A classic mystery . . . One Holmes himself would have loved to solve” —The Independent).

Dead women should not show up in photos fourteen years beyond the grave . . . But if anyone is likely to recognize Claire Lidman, it's her husband, Samuel. He brings the photo to Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas. Their initial skepticism gives way to cautious belief—but where will this case lead them?

Meanwhile, Rekke's daughter, Julia, has a new boyfriend she's determined to keep secret. When word gets out, Micaela's world collapses around her, and Rekke is forced to confront a nemesis from his youth.

Plunging us back into the political upheaval and financial crisis of the 1990s, as the Iron Curtain is finally lifted, the second Rekke and Vargas investigation sees our heroes grapple with a fiendish case that affects them both in profoundly personal ways.

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About the Author

DAVID LAGERCRANTZ is an acclaimed author and journalist. His continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy—The Girl in the Spider’s Web, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, and The Girl Who Lived Twice—are worldwide best sellers. He is also the author of I Am Zlatan Ibrahimović, Fall of Man in Wilmslow, and Dark Music. He lives in Stockholm.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593312937
• ISBN 13: 9780593312933
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352