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“Silent Scream” is the start of Arne Dahl’s new crime series.
An exciting start that continues the tradition of Swedish crime fiction.
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For more than 30 years, a number of crime novels from Scandinavia have appeared on the German book market every year.
The founders of the Nordic Noir genre, Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, demonstrated what makes a good Swedish crime story.
It's not just the search for the murderer, but the psychological approach to what lies behind the crime.
Where did the person in question take a wrong turn in his or her biography?
What prompted him to do this?
Arne Dahl is a typical representative of this genre and brought his Berger-Blom series 2022 to a brilliant conclusion with “Zero Equals One”.
Now he is back with “Silent Scream” about Eva Nymann.
He got off to a successful start.
Arne Dahl “Silent Scream”: That’s what the book of the week is about
Arne Dahl presents a new series premiere about Eva Nymann with “Silent Scream”.
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When you read his last crime novel “Zero Equals One” you asked yourself at the end what might happen next?
A cliffhanger announced a new series.
With “Silent Scream” Dahl starts right away with the investigator Eva Nymann and the book starts with a bang.
Two more follow within the next chapters, which draw the reader ever deeper and faster into the plot.
First it hits a boss in the steel industry, then a marketing manager working for the car lobby: in Sweden, home-made bombs kill two people before the bomber contacts the police - and threatens more.
A climate activist gone astray, it seems, who babbles about sin, holy anger and revenge in his letters.
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Arne Dahl knows how psychological crime novels work.
Over the past 25 years he has published numerous books and launched three crime series.
He became known in Germany with the A-Team, whose books were made into films and can partly be found in the ZDF media library.
In his books, Dahl always managed to squeeze current events between two book covers in an atmospherically dense manner without sacrificing the entertainment value.
Arne Dahl “Silent Scream”: Three supposedly unrelated cases
After the first attack on a steel industry boss, which at first looked like a car accident, and an attack on an advertising agency employee, an unknown perpetrator threatened to bomb an Amazon server farm.
A letter of confession that has emerged suggests that a former colleague of Eva Nymann, who now lives as a dropout in the forests of Sweden, is behind the crimes.
And to what extent are climate activists responsible for the attacks?
The Swedish police are beginning to investigate at full speed.
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Arne Dahl “Silent Scream”: Conclusion
Arne Dahl succeeds in packing current debates into an exciting novel.
He captures individual opinions and moods and lets his characters speak.
This not only makes reading authentic, but also very exciting right up to the last page.
For everyone who likes profound Swedish crime novels, the new Arne Dahl is a must.
Arne Dahl “Silent Scream”
Translated by Kerstin Schöps
2024 Piper, ISBN-13 978-3-492-07241-0
Price: Hardcover, €17, 464 pages
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Arne Dahl: About the author
Born in 1963, Arne Dahl created one of the world's most successful crime series about the Stockholm A-Group.
His books, which have won many international awards, are very popular in German-speaking countries and have sold over two and a half million copies there.
Not only his A-group series, but also his thriller quartet about the Opcop group, consisting of the volumes “Greed”, “Zorn”, “Envy” and “Hate”, achieved bestseller status.
In 2016, Dahl started a new, outstanding series with “Seven Minus One,” which focuses on the investigative duo Berger & Blom.
Each volume in this series was able to stay on the SPIEGEL bestseller list for months.
In 2018, Arne Dahl received the renowned Ripper Award together with Simon Beckett.
He recently published the brilliant conclusion to his series with “Zero Equals One”.
Arne Dahl received the Ripper Award in 2018 together with Simon Beckett.
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