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Without a Trace
May 4, 2025 3:49 AM

Author:Liza Marklund,Neil Smith

Without a Trace

A family torn apart. Another trying to find a way to be as one.

Ingemar Lerberg had it all: successful businessman, politician, husband, father. Until he is found, brutally beaten and left for dead, in his mansion in a fashionable district of Stockholm. His wife, Nora, is missing. With no alternative, his children are taken into care. In one night, a family has been ripped apart.

Journalist Annika Bengtzon is assigned to the case. As she delves into the horrifying details of this family’s fate, she grapples too with the change in her own. With her new boyfriend she must patch together a family from their respective children and stepchildren, and find a way for them all to live harmoniously.

Family matters above all else, but all is never as it seems. Behind the scenes, darkness lies.

Reviews

One of the most popular crime writers of our time

—— PATRICIA CORNWELL

No one tells a story like Liza Marklund

—— KARIN SLAUGHTER

Edge-of-your-seat suspense

—— HARLAN COBEN

Dynamic plots with suspense throughout

—— KATHY REICHS

For the first time in years, P.D. James has serious competition

—— Philip Oakes , Literary Review

I raced to finish this story of a couple caught in the fall-out of their best friends' split. Beautifully written and peppered with moments of stunning observation, it's a superb read.

—— Amanda Jennings

Reading Tamar Cohen's THE BROKEN is like sitting down with your most eloquent, quick-witted friend. She sees every side of the story. She's always one step ahead of you, full of empathy and insight. This is a story of the implicit social pacts of marriage, a fresh examination of human nature. And also, let's just say it. It's downright, utter, nasty, page-turning, delicious fun.

—— Caroline Kepnes, author of YOU

Fabulous. I was drawn in from the very first page. Tamar is very skilled at creating characters that seem so real, almost as if we're their best friends too, yet beneath their exteriors, you just know there's so much more simmering away. The tension grew with every page turn, until it was almost unbearable, yet I couldn't stop reading! I literally gasped out loud, so shocked by the very unexpected ending. This brilliant book will be on my mind for a long time.

—— Samantha Hayes, author of UNTIL YOU'RE MINE

Compulsive reading ... the tension racks up and the book switches from domestic drama into full-blown, chilling thriller

—— Essentials, Book of the Month

Everyone's talking about this ... A gripping cocktail of betrayal and revenge

—— Prima Magazine

Dramatic, sad and tense, it's essential you get your hands on this thriller. (Five stars)

—— Closer

A chillingly brilliant thriller

—— Red Magazine

A sustained work of near genius that takes a very familiar theme - man leaves wife for younger model - and not only brilliantly dissects the breakdown of the marriage but also teh consequences for the couple's close circle of friends ...Cohen's first foray into psychological suspense is a triumph.

—— Daily Mail

Taut, tense and addictive

—— Good Housekeeping

Cohen’s marital drama morphs into a psychological thriller, and a last-minute twist set into motion much earlier in the narrative is brilliant.

—— Publishers Weekly US

A war novel like no other“Dark desires sizzle” and explode with a furious climax. Ellroy is not only back in form – he’s raised the stakes.

—— Kirkus Review (starred review)

One of the most original and daring writers alive.

—— Independent on Sunday

It’s an epic 687-page undertaking that is at times disturbingly violent – a must for noir fans.

—— Stylist

Ellroy, writing in his signature telegraphic style, strives to depict reality, every dark aspect of it: there’s murder, apparent ritual suicides, hate crimes and a world of characters that you just cannot root for. Ellroy successfully establishes his four main characters, alongside a wealth of fully developed, clever and sophisticated secondary characters, within his own creation of a microcosm of a community challenged by politics and an unavoidable history.

—— Culture Fly

James Ellroy is the best crime writer in the world.

—— Irish Times

A brash, two-fisted tour-de-force of spleen and invective which holds up a cracked and tarnished mirror to a turbulent period of American history … powerful in scope, theme and character … for blood and guts, he could give Beowulf a run for its money … it is impossible to deny the power and energy that has gone into Perfidia, which is more than a crime novel whilst showing, at the same time, what the crime novel is capable of.

—— SHOTS

The prose is as tight and fast moving as ever … If you are in pursuit of vintage Ellroy, this book is for you.

—— The Register

A sprawling, uncompromising epic of crime and depravity.

—— Publishers Weekly

As unflinching and sharp as ever, even more so . . . Perfidia might be his [Ellroy’s] finest novel yet . . . Its story is full of tectonic movements, fascinating and dangerous characters with ambiguous morality, and events bigger than life itself. It’s brilliant in its complexity and vastness.

—— Upcoming4.me

As abrasive and compelling as always.

—— Me and My Big Mouth
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