In this chilling crime novel starring the elusive, tough-as-nails Swedish police superintendent Malin Fors, a combustive summer turns deadly.After winning the Swedish equivalent of the Whitbread Award for his debut novel Pesetas, Mons Kallentoft chose to devote his unique talents to reinventing the classic Scandinavian crime novel—an effort for which he was richly rewarded with more than a million devoted fans in addition to praise from Magus Utvik, Sweden’s leading critic: “Don’t bother with Stieg Larsson…Kallentoft is better.” Now, in this sequel to Midwinter Blood, Malin Fors returns in a tale that simmers with tension. In the midst of the hottest summer anyone can recall, a sweltering heat wave and raging forest fires plague the small Swedish burg of Linköping. Things get especially hot for police superintendent Malin Fors when a teenage girl is found naked and bleeding in a city park, incapable of recollecting how she came to such a state. Then, the corpse of a teenage girl turns up on a lakeside beach. For Malin, the divorced, thirty-four-year-old mother of a teenage daughter, the case is more than an explosive nightmare in a season of fire—it’s personal. Dark and brooding, with a protagonist that has earned Kallentoft’s novels a global readership, Summer Death is crime fiction at the cutting edge.