The Nights at Mon Chérie

On February 28, 1986, the 33-year-old Kenneth Swärd takes the subway to central Stockholm where he spends seven hours at his regular location, Café Mon Chéri. A week later, the police knock on his door. He is suspected of aiding and abetting the murder of Sweden’s Prime Minister, Olof Palme.

Revealed with name and picture in the press, he becomes prey. To escape the attention, police surveillance, and the public’s fierce reactions, he settles in the US. In December 1993, he was reported missing. A month later, he was found murdered. But in the dark, forces continue to link him to the murder and the night that changed his life forever.

The Nights at Mon Chéri is a novel about right-wing cults and hard-boiled detectives, facial composites, and salvation, about a man who dreamed of being in the center and, in the end, saw his dreams become all too true.