The Return of the Dancing Master

Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with some light toning to the pages) Hardcover first edition - London:: The Harvill Press,, (2003.). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new, but with some light toning to the pages) . First UK printing. Novel introducing Stefan Lindman, a young police officer who has just been diagnosed with cancer of the tongue. A thriller with its roots in World War II and a neo-Nazi network. Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson. 407 pp plus an afterword.

When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snowEas if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer recently diagnosed with mouth cancer, decides to investigate the murder of his former colleague, but is soon enmeshed in a mystifying case with no witnesses and no apparent motives. Terrified of the disease that could take his life, Lindman becomes more and more reckless as he unearths the chilling links between Molin's death and an underground neo-Nazi network that runs further and deeper than he could ever have imagined.