The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund

A mesmerizing and explosive thriller that reaches into the darkest corners of the human psyche and asks: How much suffering can a person inflict upon another before creating a monster? A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER.

In a Stockholm city park, police find the hideously mutilated body of a child. Then they find two more. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force. She turns to therapist Sofia Zetterlund for her expertise in psychopathic perpetrators, and their lives become increasingly intertwined, professionally and personally. As the two women draw closer to the truth about the killings, they come to discover a hellishly insidious evil at work—and it’s closer to them than they think. As viscerally dramatic as it is psychologically intense, The Crow Girl is a tale of almost unfathomably heinous deeds, and of the profound damage—and the equally profound need for revenge—left in their wake.

Story Locale: Stockholm, Sweden

Publication History: Random House Canada HC (06/16)

ERIK AXL SUND is the pen name of Swedish author duo Jerker Eriksson (b. 1974) and Håkan Axlander Sundquist (b. 1965). Håkan is a sound engineer, musician and artist. Jerker has been the producer of Håkan’s electropunk band i love you baby! and currently works as a librarian in a prison. Translated by Neil Smith.

Author Residence: Sweden

Author Hometown: Sweden