Until Thy Wrath Be Past by Asa Larsson, Quercus, $32.99
The first chapter of Until Thy Wrath Be Past is so shockingly powerful, beautiful and terrifying, I forgot to breathe.
It sat on the bedside table as I took a few deep inhalations before I could continue, but once picked up again it was only ever put down reluctantly.
Teenager Wilma Persson is dead, the victim of more than one cold-blooded killer.
She watches as beautiful District Prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson and pugnacious Inspector Anna-Maria Mella gradually close in on her murderers.
Asa Larsson cleverly cuts between Wilma’s youthful first-person account and the narration, creating a novel that mixes quiet menace with gently exuberant regret, something like what you’d get if you put The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo in a blender with The Lovely Bones.
Investigator Rebecka Martinsson is kind, subtle and intelligent, she’s the last person you’d want to see meet the same terrible fate as lovely Wilma, making the last chapter of this must-read thriller as gripping as the first.
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