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For a seemingly perfect family, a single word will change everything in this edge-of-your-seat thriller for fans of The Silent Patient and The Whisper Man.It's early summer in Stockholm. Agneta and Stellan Broman have just waved off their daughters and grandchildren when the landline phone rings. The caller says just one word: Geiger. Agneta hangs up, finds her old pistol, kills her husband of fifty years and then disappears from their home without a trace.Sara Nowak, a police officer in the prostitution unit, is called by a colleague who is investigating the murder. Stellan was a widely loved former television presenter, and Sara grew up next door to the Bromans, spending much of her childhood in their grand house. Both the victim's daughters and Sara are devastated by the killing, and going against all regulations, Sara gets involved in the investigation. It is the beginning of a dark journey, leading back to the Cold War and fatal ideologies, and the truth about Sara's own childhood.Exciting, compelling, and full of twists you'll never see coming, Geiger is Gustaf Skördeman's incredible debut thriller.

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Gustaf Skördeman was born in 1965 in Sweden and is a screenwriter, director, and producer. Geiger is his literary debut. Clare Corbett, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. After winning the Carlton Hobbs audition, she was chosen to be on BBC Radio. After leaving BBC she went on to narrate several children's books, including Over the Moon, I Rule Dogsbottom School, and Boy Beware. She has transitioned into reading young adult novels, including many installments in the Doctor Who series. Ian Giles is a highly competent freelance translator for The Nordic Word having worked in translation since 2010. His commercial translation specialities include journalism and railways. However, he has also completed a major literal translation of a well-known Swedish play. Ian is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh where he obtained an MA in Scandinavian Studies in 2011. He has also studied at Uppsala University. Ian has recently completed an MSc in Translation Studies at the University of Edinburgh and hopes to pursue further research opportunities in the not-too-distant future. Ian is an associate member of the Swedish-English Literary Translators' Association as well as a student member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting.

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