Kjell Eriksson: The Princess of Burundi, A Capturing Swedish Crime Thriller Fiction

The Princess of Burundi by Kjell Eriksson has been an international bestseller and won the Best Crime Novel prize of Swedish Crime Academy. It is an epithome of gripping Nordic crime stories.




In a small Swedish town Libro the gory corpse of John Harald Jonsson is found in the snow; he was murdered, and badly tortured beforehand. He was an introverted man who recently lost his job as a crook; he loved his wife and fourteen years old son Justus. He was a hobbyist expert on tropical fish called cichlids. Presumably he did not have enemies. However, investigators, Ann Lindell and Ola Haver, find a suspicious person: Vincent Hahn, a mentally unstable man whom Little John mocked in their school days. On the other hand, some members of John’s family also seem strange. His brother, Lennart, has a police record, and, years ago, talked John into doing illegal activities. It turns out that John was into gambling and has won a large sum of money playing poker – only Justus knew about this fact…