The Liar

With summer just around the corner, Stockholm is more beautiful than ever. But the peace is about to be broken for Emma and her family. 

On an early morning, a teenage boy is found dead in a wooded area in the suburb Bromma. The body is badly beaten, and his valuables are missing. Tension immediately runs high in the area and suspicions are directed towards some young boys from a nearby residential area.  

Police detective Emma Sköld must solve the case before the killer strikes again, but she has a feeling that prejudice is getting in the way of finding the actual culprit. Are the boy’s friends and family trying to hide something from her? 

The Liar is the eighth book in the series about the fearless police detective Emma Sköld, and explores themes such as prejudice, exclusion, class differences and, above all, lies. Who can you really trust?  

The series about police detective Emma Sköld has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 17 languages to date.

Sofie Sarenbrant’s hugely successful crime series has been optioned by Breakable Films.

With summer just around the corner, Stockholm is more beautiful than ever. But the peace is about to be broken for Emma and her family. 

On an early morning, a teenage boy is found dead in a wooded area in the suburb Bromma. The body is badly beaten, and his valuables are missing. Tension immediately runs high in the area and suspicions are directed towards some young boys from a nearby residential area.  

Police detective Emma Sköld must solve the case before the killer strikes again, but she has a feeling that prejudice is getting in the way of finding the actual culprit. Are the boy’s friends and family trying to hide something from her? 

The Liar is the eighth book in the series about the fearless police detective Emma Sköld, and explores themes such as prejudice, exclusion, class differences and, above all, lies. Who can you really trust?  

The series about police detective Emma Sköld has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 17 languages to date.

Sofie Sarenbrant’s hugely successful crime series has been optioned by Breakable Films.

info

  • Year of publication

    2020

  • Original title

    Mytomanen

  • Page count

    420

  • Original publisher

    Bookmark

  • Original language of publication

    Swedish

  • Rights sold

    DenmarkNorwayFinlandGermanyPoland

Reviews

  • Damernas Värld Newspaper

    “Sofie Sarenbrant is skilled at finding current topics to weave her Bromma-based crime novels around”

  • Mattias Edvardsson, author of A Nearly Normal Family

    “What a book! The Liar by of Sofie Sarenbrant is a really smart crime story with lots of plot threads and nice twists ... Thank you for a brilliant page-turner, Sofie!”

  • Femina Newspaper

    “Sofie Sarenbrant's main character Emma Sköld is the kind of police you just want to keep on reading about. The Liar is eerily good. And scary.”

  • Dagens Nyheter Newspaper

    “Sofie Sarenbrant is good at portraying environments and contemporary details, and the plot is interesting with nasty, credible portraits”

  • Bibliotekstjänst

    ”A pleasant and easy-to-read crime novel.”

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