Änkorna The Widows

Vanessa Frank #3

Two bodies are found in a park in Stockholm, one a policeman and the other an unidentified young woman. The police believe the woman to be nothing more than unfortunate collateral damage and put all their investigative focus on the police officer. Vanessa Frank has a different idea, and her investigation turns out to be more personal than she could have imagined. It leads her straight toward a terror threat.

Terrorist networks operate deep in the shadows, and Vanessa must tread carefully in her investigation – her work is now more chaotic and dangerous than ever. Or is it already too late?

The Widows is the third installment in the bestselling series about detective Vanessa Frank.

“The absolute hottest Swedish crime novel of the autumn.”
– Camilla Läckberg

“Completely impossible to put down.”
–Sara Blædel

“Overpowered me with the same never-wracking construction as Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.”
– Alex Schulman

Awards

Shortlisted for the Adlibris Award (Best Crime Fiction) Sweden	2020
Shortlisted for the Storytel Awards (Best Suspense) Sweden	2020

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Reviews

“It is difficult to rank [Engman’s] four books [in the Vanessa Frank series] in relation to each other, because they are all great and Pascal Engman always manages to take things to new levels. Here, the action is turned up into an astonishing ending, and The Widows must be described as one of his best so far. /…/ All in all, an excellent Swedish suspense novel.”

Bogblogger.dk, Denmark
“The pace and appealing main characters make The Widows a Scandi thriller to count on. This is emphasized by the exciting plot: nothing is what it seems, and the suspense remains until the very last page. /…/ All of this makes The Widows one of the best Scandi thrillers of this year and Engman is a force to be reckoned with.”

ThrillZone, Netherlands
“The story revolves around hatred and revenge, but also love and the pathos of justice. Above all, The Widows is an exciting Swedish contemporary thriller.”

BTJ, Sweden
“Engman (…) succeeds in staging the nerve-wracking plot as if on a screen.”

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Germany
“Engman writes knowledgeably, atmospherically, and his storylines are cleverly thought-out. A reading feast for all fans of Swedish crime novels!”

Eschborner Stadtmagazin, Germany
“The plot of [The Widows] is incredibly clever. The storylines, which at the beginning (seem) to be far apart, are interwoven and linked in an artful and highly exciting way. The result is a frighteningly realistic and oppressively authentic book – and certainly one of the best Scandinavian thrillers currently available.”

Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, Germany