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Mons Kallentoft (Author), Neil Smith (Translator)
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Release Date: 24 May 2012 | Series: Malin Fors
Winter was chilling. Summer will be brutal. Every season is perfect for murder.As the temperature in Sweden reaches a record-breaking 45°, forest fires break out. All those who have failed to escape Linköping for the summer take shelter indoors, shocked and paralysed by the heat.

However, when a teenage girl is discovered naked and bleeding in the local park, it is clear that the raging heat is not the only plague affecting the town.

Then a second girl is found dead.

Alarmed by the fact that the victims are the same age as her daughter, Tove, detective Malin Fors will work round-the-clock to capture the perpetrator. But as every lead comes to nothing, it is as though the oppressive heat is clogging up the wheels of her investigation. And time is not on Malin's side . . .

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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (24 May 2012)
  • Language: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 1444721577
  • ISBN-13: 978-1444721577
  • Product Dimensions: 15 x 3.2 x 20.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 88,529 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Kallentoft's books have been called beautiful, exquisite and original. I can see why.' (Literary Review )

'He has a completely unique style, an exquisite narrative that you drink in with pleasure . . . I'm convinced: a crime novel doesn't get much more beautiful than this' (Kristian Stadsbladet )

'Don't bother with Stieg Larsson, Kallentoft is better' (Magnus Utvik, Sweden's leading critic )

'One of the best-realised female heroines I've read by a male writer' (Guardian )

'The highest suspense' (Camilla Lackberg, international bestselling author of The Stonecutter )

'The strengths of this complex and excellent novel include realistic dialogue, thorough characterisation and concern for social issues' (New Zealand Listener )

'It is Kallentoft's characterisation and distinctive, often poetic style which make his crime-writing more memorable than most . . . It is compelling reading. The atmosphere of oppressive heat creates the sense of a hell on earth, where evil thrives. It is a powerful and disturbing vision.' (Canberra Times )

'Meditative. Dark. Really, really cold . . . This is a worthy successor to Larsson's <i>Millennium</i> trilogy . . . This first installment in Kallentoft's crime series is a splendid representative of the Swedish crime novel, in all its elegance and eeriness.' (Booklist Starred Review )

'My current favourite among the Scandinavian crime writers is another Swede, Mons Kallentoft. So far, three of his Malin Fors books have been translated into English: Midwinter Sacrifice, Summertime Death and Autumn Killing. I loved them all, particularly for the way Kallentoft gives a voice to his victims.' (Alex Gray, author of Sleep Like the Dead )

About the Author

Mons Kallentoft grew up in a working-class household in the provincial town of Linkoping, Sweden, where the Malin Fors series is set. Before becoming a writer, he worked in journalism and is also a keen food critic. His first novel, Pesetas, was awarded the Swedish equivalent of the Whitbread Award. He has been married to Karolina for over 20 years, and they live in Stockholm with their daughter and son.

His novels are translated into English by Neil Smith.

Visit Mons' website at www.monskallentoft.se and his Facebook page at www.facebook.com/MonsKallentoft and follow him on Twitter @Kallentoft
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant writing that goes to some very dark places 2 May 2012
By Keris Nine TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
Mons Kallentoft's previous book, Midwinter Sacrifice, was a promising debut that showed a new, unique and literary voice working in Scandinavian crime fiction. Those qualities come into fruition brilliantly in the second Malin Fors book, Summertime Death. Even though it's under rather different weather conditions, it doesn't take long to slip back into the author's idiosyncratic and expansive view of provincial Sweden, or indeed to establish that each book in the tetralogy is going to be closely connected to the seasons. If midwinter in Linköping was as bleak as you can imagine, the record breaking heatwave that afflicts the city in the new book seeps into Detective Fors' investigation every bit as deeply.

Creating atmosphere is undoubtedly the strength of Mons Kallentoft's writing, but it extends way beyond using the weather for effect. As with the first book, there's an impressionistic clamour of voices from people from all walks of life (and even dead voices) in the community that flit through the writing. It's an essential part of the author's style, but it really distinguishes the writing above other similar works of crime fiction, putting the reader not only into the first-person perspective of Fors, but building up a much wider view of Swedish society. It's incredibly expansive in this respect, dipping into the minds of colleagues, victims and their families, but even if many of those figures appear to be peripheral to the story, it provides a deeper and essential insight into the society in which the crimes take place.

That was evident in Midwinter Sacrifice, but it's even more relevant, important and skillfully employed here in Summertime Death. Since it initially involves a raped girl with no memory and another who has gone missing, it's a case that goes to some very dark places and challenges both small-minded prejudice and political correctness, as well as giving cause for personal self-examination in the case of Malin Fors herself. Kallentoft ties this in to an atmosphere of forest fires and suffocating heat in a manner that is extraordinarily powerful and intense, all the while developing and strengthening the personalities of recurring characters in a way that is going to make this a far more important collection than Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping- couldn't put it down... 29 July 2012
By Miss S. J. Draper
Format:Paperback
Took this book on holiday this week and was hooked by the end of 2nd chapter- characters interesting, quite gory at times but original. Loved the scene setting with forest fires, I could almost smell the smoke in the air...
The main character Malin Fors is interesting and I am looking forward to finding out her dark secret in later books. The last half of the book was so gripping that I was ignoring everyone on my holiday . A really good read if you like Steig Larsson, the Killing series etc
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3.0 out of 5 stars Slow starter, but worthwhile (audio book review) 24 Aug 2012
By Sile VINE™ VOICE
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Having downloaded, listened to, and enjoyed Midwinter Sacrifice, the first book featuring Malin Fors, I was keen to listen to this, especially since it had a different narrator.

The story's pacing is slow at first , and only really picks up towards the very end, but the use of voices, including those of the murder victims, kept me interested. The weather and seasons are notable as characters in these books, and as a heatwave raged around me in real life, it was easy to imagine the one in the book. Perhaps the slow pace was a reflection on the heat in Linköping, adding to the feeling of sluggishness felt by the characters themselves.

I was pleased to find Malin's inner thoughts more believable than in the last book, and I was much happier with the narration in Summertime Death (Unabridged), too because it wasn't as monotonous, thus breathing more life into the various characters; and this despite some being dead. Pleasingly, I was unable to discern the perpetrator in this book which counterbalanced the lack of astonishment at the identity of the last abductee.

I would recommend this audio book, especially if the listener has enjoyed Midwinter Sacrifice. I also look forward to listening to Autumn Killing and Savage Spring (Malin Fors) in the same series being translated.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read!
So many Scandinavian crime books are set in winter, but this one is in the scorching heat of summer which is as atmospheric as the darkness of winter. Really enjoyed it.
Published 1 month ago by Dizzylizzard
2.0 out of 5 stars Get On with it
Too much paranormal commentary from beyond the grave for me here. Along with too much, for me, 'snake imagery'. Read more
Published 2 months ago by lichram
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Swedish master of crime
I honestly preferred the 1st book of the Malin Fors series. The overtones from the victims throughout the story jarred with me, seeming maudlin, not meaningful. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Cathy Moore
4.0 out of 5 stars interesting story
worth reading if you like the Killing 111,type of storys
with similar twists.good building of main people
have read another 2 books of this series
Published 4 months ago by rita gomory
4.0 out of 5 stars Good storyline but not so keen on the present tense
A teenage girl is found naked in a public park having been assaulted but she has no memory of the event. Shortly later another teenager is found but this time the victim is dead. Read more
Published 5 months ago by S. J. Mackenzie
4.0 out of 5 stars Summertime Death
A good, interesting easy read. Malin Fors is a women of some complication. I get a good feeling for the area in which this book is set, and the characters in it.
Published 6 months ago by Pats
3.0 out of 5 stars Second course not as satisfying as the first?
I have just literally finished this book - the second in the translated Malin Fors series. I am sure that most translations of European detective stories lose something in... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Deeguy
1.0 out of 5 stars Confused superstitious hysterical
As soon as I relize that italics in the text means that some character or other is being given a voice beyond the grave, I groan. I hate this superstitious approach. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Prof Michael J. Rennie
5.0 out of 5 stars marmite
Unlike some of those out in the thriller writing world , Kallentoft can actually write and he uses language in marvellous ways . Read more
Published 9 months ago by cartoon
4.0 out of 5 stars It's not Mankell
I read fast but still I was apt to skip the musings from the deceased persons, a conceit I didn't like. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Vivien Hanchard
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