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This best-selling Scandinavian thriller follows its troubled heroine as she investigates a high-profile robbery for Stockholm's Violent Crimes Division.Naked and bloody, a seven-year-old girl walks into a bank in central Stockholm in broad daylight and gets away with millions. Leona Lindberg of Stockholm's Violent Crimes Division agrees to work on the case. With a long, distinguished history in the police force, she seems the perfect choice. But Leona is grappling with deep issues of her own--a gambling addiction, a strained marriage--that could jeopardize the investigation. As she struggles to keep the volatile pieces of her life under control, the line between right and wrong becomes increasingly unclear--and even irrelevant. This is a hard-boiled crime novel, filled with unexpected twists and turns, featuring an unusual heroine. Leona makes for gripping reading while challenging feminine norms and posing questions about what lies behind the choices we make.
About the Author
Jenny Rogneby (1974) is a Swedish criminologist and former criminal investigator at Stockholm City Police Department. Her work inspired her to create the character Leona and write the best-selling and internationally acclaimed crime novel Leona - The die is cast, the first in the Leona series. Her books are published in more than a dozen countries and the film rights are sold to Hollywood.www.facebook.com/jenny.rogneby/www.instagram.com/jennyrogneby/Photo: Mikael Eriksson/M Industries
