The Widows

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER
FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FEMICIDE (1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE)
’Pascal Engman is the master of the new generation’ David Lagercrantz

Two bodies are discovered in a Stockholm park, one a policeman and the other an unidentified young woman. With the police believing the woman to be nothing more than unfortunate collateral damage, they focus on the murder of the police officer. But Detective Vanessa Frank takes a different approach and her investigation turns out to be more personal than she could have imagined.

WINNER OF THE PETRONA AWARD 2023
’Overpowered me with the same never-wracking construction as Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code’ Alex Schulman
’The absolute hottest Swedish crime novel of the autumn’ Camilla Läckberg
’Completely impossible to put down’ Sara Bl del
’An unfailing ability to build up tension’ DN
’With cliffhangers and an exciting, credible plot, he manages to build up a pace in the story that never lets go’ Aftonbladet
’Just keeps getting better and The Widows is his best yet’ Anders Kapprakt, Swedish Crime Academy
’An exciting contemporary Swedish thriller about terrorism in a cold December Stockholm’ BTJ

Following the publication of his first book The Patriots, in 2017, Pascal Engman has become the best-selling Swedish crime novelist of his generation. He has been acclaimed by Camilla Läckberg, David Lagercrantz, The Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy and others as a rising star of Swedish crime fiction. Engman, who resides in his native Stockholm, was born to a Swedish mother and a Chilean father. Engman was a journalist at Swedish evening newspaper Expressen.