About the Book: The Axe Woman
Sweden 2012. When Inspector Gunnar Barbarotti returns to work after a terrible
personal tragedy his boss asks him to investigate a cold case, hoping to ease
him back gently into his police duties.
Five years previously a shy electrician, Arnold Morinder, disappeared from the
face of the earth, the only clue his blue moped abandoned in a nearby swamp. At
the time his partner, Ellen Bjarnebo, claimed that Arnold had probably travelled
to Norway, never to return. But Ellen is one of Swedens most notorious killers,
having served eleven years in prison after killing her abusive first husband and
dismembering his body