The 3 best books by Liza Marklund

Partly overshadowed, at least in Spain, by a greater pull from his compatriot Camilla Lackberg, we cannot forget one Liza marklund that in this matter of the Swedish black genre, he has already been presenting cases with almost always female protagonists such as the journalist Annika Bengtzon herself.

Precisely that choice of investigators far from the usual spotlights of the police offer in the plots of this writer greater possibilities in terms of the unpredictability of development.

Because in the variable modus operandi of a journalist behind the truth, accustomed to dealing in the most dangerous areas, we enjoy the tension over the facts and the possible consequences that they may entail for the integrity of the investigator herself.

In the absence of new editions in Spanish of other Liza series, for now we are enjoying what is offered to us from this international bestseller.

Liza Marklund's Top 3 Recommended Novels

Paradise

Nothing better than a good storm to build a metaphor for internal storms, for the darkness of circumstances, for possible disasters to be discovered when calm returns...

A hurricane sweeps across southern Sweden, wreaking havoc in its wake. Two men lie dead in the port of Stockholm, shot at point-blank range in the head. A girl tries to save her life. Find refuge at Paradise, a foundation dedicated to people whose lives are in danger.

Annika Bengtzon, a newspaper editor, is trying to rebuild her life after the violent death of her fiancé. Covering the story of Paradise is the opportunity you need to get your personal and professional life back on track. But, as he is about to discover, neither Paradise nor the girl, Aida, are what they appear. Annika's search for the truth will force herself and Aida to face their troubled pasts, and in the end Annika will be faced with the most difficult decision of her life.

Paradise

Dynamite

The international effect of Liza Marklund came with this novel "The Bomber." And with it, the saga of the astute journalist Annika Bengtzon took off. Six months to go to the Summer Olympics in Stockholm. In the busy and stressful editorial offices of the newspaper Kvällspressen journalist Annika Bengtzon tries to get the article between articles.

To achieve this, he struggles in a constant internal struggle between the demands of his family life and his professional ambition. She is brave, compassionate, intelligent, with a dark and self-destructive side, she is stubborn to report the truth, without caring how to get it. During the pre-Olympic months a bomb explodes in one of the city's stadiums. Christina Furhage, one of the most important women in the country, is blown to pieces.

This is Annika's opportunity to catapult herself to fame and recognition from her peers. She will have to find out who is trying to sabotage the Games and why. She has a clue as a starting point: dynamite used in construction was used in the explosion. Liza Marklund was not only the first to introduce a female protagonist character in a crime novel, but she also offers us a reflection on the current problems of women in her daily life.

Dynamite

studio-sex

Every series worth its salt today ends up rescuing its prequel. And it certainly seems to me a committed exercise for the author, because everything has to fit in with aspects already narrated in the future.

But it is no less true that knowing, as readers, about the characters before they came to us, has a singular voyeuristic morbid point. On this occasion we go back to eight years before the dramatic events of Dynamite… Newbie reporter Annika Bengtzon has just started a summer internship at a major Stockholm newspaper, Kvällspressen. There she is in charge of the boring task of answering the tip-off phone line.

But before she has had a chance to enter the hectic world of journalism, the naked corpse of a young girl appears in a cemetery. stripper who worked at the Studio Sex club has been raped and strangled, and the main suspect is a government secretary. Annika quickly realizes that this case may be the opportunity to write her first big article and catapult to fame. Although as he discovers the dark hell of the hostess clubs, he goes dangerously into a world of sex and violence.

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