Fatal Gambit, David Lagercrantz
Fatal Gambit, David Lagercrantz
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Fatal Gambit

Author: David Lagercrantz, Ian Giles

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 10 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2024


Synopsis

David Lagercrantz's detective duo, Rekke and Vargas, returns in a new installment of the internationally best-selling series that began with Dark Music (“A classic mystery . . . One Holmes himself would have loved to solve” —The Independent).

Dead women should not show up in photos fourteen years beyond the grave . . . But if anyone is likely to recognize Claire Lidman, it's her husband, Samuel. He brings the photo to Hans Rekke and Micaela Vargas. Their initial skepticism gives way to cautious belief—but where will this case lead them?

Meanwhile, Rekke's daughter, Julia, has a new boyfriend she's determined to keep secret. When word gets out, Micaela's world collapses around her, and Rekke is forced to confront a nemesis from his youth.

Plunging us back into the political upheaval and financial crisis of the 1990s, as the Iron Curtain is finally lifted, the second Rekke and Vargas investigation sees our heroes grapple with a fiendish case that affects them both in profoundly personal ways.

About David Lagercrantz

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, author David Lagercrantz was given the honor of finishing the fourth in the Millennium trilogy began by author, Stieg Larrson. He was happy to fulfill the request by writing and publishing The Girl in the Spider's Web, a free-standing sequel to the Trilogy. In August 2015, the book was published simultaneously by 26 publishers, in ten languages.

Lagercrantz's breakthrough novel was Fall of Man in Wilmslow. It is a fictional story about the real British mathematician, Alan Turing. In each novel, you can see a common pattern.......great talents who do not follow convention. It makes for creative and interesting themes.

Lagercrantz is the son of the publicist and literary scholar, Olaf Largercrantz, and Martina Ruin, and brother of the Swedish actress and diplomat Marika Lagercrantz. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his media executive wife, Anne Lagercrantz, and their three children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Greer on September 14, 2024

A very complicated and convoluted story, written in the Scandinavian style which causes it to be difficult to read, let alone follow the story for most of the book. The writing quality is good but the events in the story are mixed up and unfathomable at times. Not an author I would search out again.......more

Goodreads review by Craig on January 26, 2025

Throughout his career, Swedish journalist and storyteller David Lagercrantz has had a deep interest in – and brilliant touch for – enigmatic, eccentric characters, both fictional and real-life. In terms of global readers, he’s likely best known for deftly continuing Stieg Larsson’s iconic ‘Millenniu......more

Goodreads review by Julie on November 24, 2024

This was good, though at times a bit convoluted and filled with lots of details and connections that all build to a strange, powerful and venomous relationship between Professor Hans Rekke and the evil Gabor Morovia who is a wealthy, quite corrupt businessman. Morovia bases his hatred of Rekke on ch......more

Goodreads review by Karen on August 02, 2024

Buried Too Deep Karen Rose 5 stars The third book in the New Orleans Series Karen Rose is one of my favourite authors and I have read most of her books. This one is the third one in the New Orleans series and I think each one is getting better. Cora Winslow has spent 23 years thinking her fa......more

Goodreads review by Candace on August 20, 2024

"Fatal Gambit" drops readers in the center of already pulsating relationships in a noirish world. A man spots what looks like his dead wife in one of a friend's holiday pictures. The man is dumbfounded, and hires Hans Rekke, a disgraced professor and his unofficial partner Detective Michaela Vargas......more


Quotes

“A shocking and spectacular work whose serpentine plot stretches from Stockholm’s meaner streets to the upper reaches of global politics." —Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

“Excellent. . . . Part of the fun is Lagercrantz’s deliberate use of Holmesian tropes. . . but he departs from Conan Doyle’s template with a complex, borderline-baroque mystery plot, to thrilling effect. By the end of the pulse-pounding denouement, readers will be breathless for the next installment.” Publishers Weekly (starred)
 
“Quirky and satisfying. . . . A distinctive Swedish duo returns. . . . Readers will enjoy hating this villain, who would have fit perfectly in a James Bond movie. . . . Tension builds to a crescendo in this well-crafted novel.” Kirkus Reviews