X Ways to Die
Published originally in 2019. Translation from Swedish by Agnes Broomé.
A murderous game. The killer makes the rules. Death hangs on the roll of the dice.
In murder investigations, it pays to keep things simple: motive, method, opportunity. But the case in front of Detective Fabian Risk is a nightmare. A killer who strikes out of nowhere. No apparent motive. No consistent method. Victims are tortured, strangled, burned, dismembered – each grisly killing carried out with savage precision, as if following the rules of a hellish game.
Fear and chaos have spread through the seaside town of Helsingborg. While Fabian Risk hunts the killer, his life is falling apart: a son on the run from the law; a daughter gravely injured; a colleague with dark secrets of his own. But there's no turning back now. The game of death is on, and Fabian Risk must play to win.
After all, there are many ways to die...
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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.
