Crystal Clear (Glasklart)

Karin Wahlberg

 

Hilda Glass is almost done with medical school and has returned to her childhood home town to do her internship at Oskarshamn hospital. Once there, Hilda realizes she has probably been unconsciously drawn to the hospital where her mother died and when she stumbles over her mother’s medical records she understands she has to deal with and find out details from her background. What kind of mysterious disease did her mother die from and was her father’s death really an accident?

 

Claes Claesson has gone to the small glassworks village Hjortfors with his family for a calm and regular Walpurgis Night, a holiday traditionally celebrated in northern Europe. The crowd around the fire increases and the spirit is high. But the idyll is shattered suddenly and very unpleasantly when a smell of burnt flesh spreads and in the light of the flames a macabre sight unfolds: a dead man’s body.

 

Crystal Clear is Karin Wahlberg’s eighth book about Police Commissioner Claes Claesson and his wife Veronika Lundborg, doctor at Oskarshamn Hospital.

 

412 pages

 

Rights sold

The Netherlands: House of Books

Germany: btb/Random House

Sweden: Wahlström & Widstrand

 

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Reviews

"In a gentle pace Karin Wahlberg builds a strong story."

Dagens Nyheter

 

"Crystal Clear is a cleverly composed crime mystery."

Skånska dagbladet

 

"Crystal Clear is one of Wahlberg’s absolute best crime mysteries."

Smålandsposten

 

"The author, who is a doctor herself, is known for placing her intrigues in the hospital environment. It shows that she knows her environment; these parts of her books are always interesting. Karin Wahlberg is god at tying exciting stories together and her writing entertains and in this case also educates."

Dast Magazine

 

"The story is really good, the main characters are human and likable."

Norra Västerbotten

 

"This crime novel about intern doctor Hilda Glass, who wants to know why her mother died too young, is primarily a story of Sweden, past and present. About the glass houses in Småland, professional pride of the glassblowers at the huts and about being young and unsure of your first job. Karin Wahlberg does not need the killing to write good literature, so one can only hope that the next book will be entirely bloodless."

Tara