The Victim
Hanna Lans wakes up in the middle of the night by two masked intruders breaking into the villa where her husband and two children are sleeping – a nightmare that quickly becomes a death trap when the house catches fire. The perpetrators are sentenced to life imprisonment for arson. Seven years later, Hanna needs to f ind the strength to face the men who ruined her life again in mediation.
Mediator Angela Lans, Hanna’s sister, handles the charged conversations between victim and perpetrator. But new, shocking facts emerge about the case and overthrow everything Angela had planned and hoped for.
Meanwhile, Angela returns to her own past and the devastating internal investigation that caused her to quit the police force. T he Victim is a gripping crime drama that asks the question how far we are prepared to go for someone we love.
The Victim is the third standalone part in the series about mediator Angela Lans. As always in Rogneby’s writing, we not only follow a thrilling case, but are also faced with unexpected ethical questions and encounter worlds we have never seen before.
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Year of publication
2024
Original title
Offret
Page count
372
Original publisher
Ordfront
Original language of publication
Swedish
Reviews
Kajsa Banck, BTJ
“Rogneby takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster where difficult moral moral issues are brought to a head, and where truth and justice are never black or white. Overall rating: 4.”
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