Death is on Laughing Gas (Döden går på lustgas)

Hans-Olov Öberg

The Hip-hop player Jens Bohlander is found dead in his street car in the garage in the middle of Strängnäs. Suicide? Hardly, according to his brother jack, a touch former SWAT police who recently has moved back to the town after twenty years in Stockholm. Is the murder a warning? Is it a revenge for something in Jack’s former life? Or is there a connection with the series of sabotage that has hit the warehouse where Jens is working? Who is really the beautiful Sylva Saleh who just happens to show up at the most convenient times? The willful Jack Bohlander promises by his brother’s grave to reveal the truth and to catch whoever is guilty. Regardless of what side of the law he has to play. And regardless of how hard methods he has to use.

 

During his hunt he has to realize that a larger game has been going on above his head. The tracks lead him from the idyllic scenery of Sörmland, straight to the heart of London City’s financial market.

 

With Death is on Laughing Gas Hans-Olov Öberg takes a large step from his previous four novels, the jazz thriller Black Style and the trilogy about economy journalist Micke Norell. The character Jack Bohlander is based on the former police man Michael Lundh’s experiences in the Stockholm Police department comparable to a SWAT force.

 

Death is on Laughing Gas is a exciting thriller, but also a book about alienation, brotherhood and the danger of giving in for the wrong temptations.

 

179 pages

 

Rights sold

Sweden: Kalla Kulor Förlag