Victim Without a Face
Published originally in 2014. Translation from Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
The first book in the Fabian Risk series, Victim Without a Face is a chilling novel about the ultimate revenge.
Criminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg. He has planned a six-week vacation before he starts a new job at the Homicide Department. But after only a few hours in their new home, he is asked to investigate a brutal murder. The body of Jörgen Pålsson, one of Risk’s former classmates, has been found with both hands missing. Soon the bodies of more old classmates are found, and Risk finds himself in a race against time: Can they find the murderer before the entire class is killed?
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Stefan Ahnhem
Stefan Ahnhem is a top writer among the fierce competition of Scandinavian thriller authors. He was born in Stockholm in 1966, grew up in Helsingborg, and now lives in Copenhagen with his family. In the 1980s and 1990s, Ahnhem played in a synth duo called Spacelab. He worked as a film and TV screenwriter for some twenty years before embarking on his writing career in 2014. The first installment of the Fabian Risk crime series was an international success and won the Crimetime Award, among others. The series skillfully combines psychological suspense with fast-paced action. The series has produced several books, which have sold over two million copies and been sold to over 30 countries.
Fabian Risk
The main character in Stefan Ahnhem's Fabian Risk series is a forty-something detective who moves from Stockholm to his hometown of Helsingborg in the first book of the series.
Fabian Risk consists of six books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
