Late summer in Stockholm. Detective Sergeant Sakka Pienni has a couple of days left of her holiday when placards are filled with the news of a seventeen-year-old girl’s disappearance. When a call comes in about a female body found in a lake, Sakka is called in to the station. It is soon clear that the victim is not the missing girl – but who is she and why does no one seem to miss her?

The investigation takes an unexpected turn when the case shows disturbing similarities with an eighteen-year-old murder. Soon, Sakka and her team enter a world colder and darker than they ever could have imagined. In the midst of all of this, Sakka is troubled by memories from her past. What really happened the day her sister died?

A dark and psychological page turner, The Underground is the second installment in the series featuring Detective Sergeant Sakka Pienni.

As the late summer dawn slowly embraces Stockholm, early morning wanderers notice that the cityscape has changed. Perched at the highest point of the city, a pristine white statue of a Greek god gazes sharply from his throne, a copy of one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

For a day, the people of Stockholm believe their city has been graced with a striking, anonymous piece of powerful street art. Then reality hits.

Led by Eva Nyman, the experienced NOVA team are assigned to trace the statue’s origin, who has placed it there, and why. Soon, more wonders will follow, all connected to the antiquity’s seven wonders.

The Seven Wonders is the second installment in the NOVA series and an intense story about revenge, old wrongs, and obsession.

Lisa Ridzén’s acclaimed debut When the Cranes Fly South, to be published on August 19th in the US, is the No. 1 pick on the on the American Booksellers’ Association’s Indie Next List for August – as chosen by US booksellers across the country. The announcement of When the Cranes Fly South as the No. 1 championed title was paired with a quote from bookseller Casey Gerken, Innisfree Bookshop:

“This honest, beautiful journey to the end of a life is the most affective piece of literature I’ve read in a long time. I haven’t gone a day without thinking of this book, these characters, and this author since I closed it.”

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