Asa Larsson’s story The Savage Altar is an awesome crime thriller novel, set in the northern part of Sweden. It is the first instalment of Rebecka Martinsson series.
In a remote town Kiruna a young man, Viktor Standgard, is found murdered and mutilated in a church, his hands cut off, his eyes gouged – presumably he was slayed during a ritual. His sister Sanna finds the gory corpse and quickly becomes a suspect.
Sanna, desperate and frightened, asks an old friend to help her. Rebecka Martinsson, a sad and disturbed lawyer, once left Kiruna, ashamed and bitter. Once she was fond of the murdered young man. Now, for Sanna’s sake, Rebecka returns from Stockholm and helps her find the persons who killed Viktor. The residents of Kiruna are not communicative, and some of them have every reason to keep their secrets. On the other hand, Viktor was a founding member of the church whose devotees killed him; and, oddest of all, this was not the first time in his life when he died…
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