The Living and the Dead THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER One town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence. A beautifully written, haunting murder mystery, set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . . "All the makings of a page-turning thriller, but with an emotional depth that is truly rare."—FREDRIK BACKMAN "The finest crime writer we have in Sweden."—DAVID LAGERCRANTZ "Carlsson is to the police procedural what Cormac McCarthy is to the Western."—ANTHONY MARRA "A thriller rendered with precision and beauty."—ADAM WHITE "Carlsson plumbs what can and cannot be known about human lives and criminal investigations."—NEW YORK TIMES One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of the Fall WINNER OF THE BEST NORDIC CRIME NOVEL (THE GLASS KEY AWARD) • WINNER OF THE BEST SWEDISH CRIME NOVEL AWARD • WINNER OF DENMARK'S PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE FOR BEST TRANSLATED CRIME NOVEL H