Any Means Necessary
A Leona Lindberg Thriller
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2.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
"Jenny Rogneby is the new queen of Nordic noir. Her heroine is like no one else." —David Lagercrantz, author of the #1 best-selling The Girl in the Spider's Web
This second installment in the Leona Lindberg series follows the corrupt detective as she deals with the emotional fallout of her actions while investigating a terrorist attack in the heart of Stockholm.
Perfect for fans of Henning Mankel and Steig Larsson
A man blows himself up outside the Parliament House in Stockholm, but miraculously survives. Was he a lone wolf, or are there more heinous acts to follow? Leona Lindberg is put on the case. But Leona, who has barely escaped her trials from the last case, is focused on other things. Her family is shattered, she is living under threat, and desperately needs liquid assets.
It's lucky that Leona can think outside the box like no other detective. With one foot on each side of the law, she mounts a special operation of grand proportions. And the higher the risk, the higher the rewards.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rogneby's edgy if flawed sequel to 2014's Leona: The Die Is Cast finds Leona Lindberg, a crooked detective with the Violent Crimes Division of the Stockholm Police, guilt-ridden over her son's death and saddled with an enormous gambling debt. Assigned to interview Fred Sj str m, the critically wounded bomber who recently attempted to blow up the Swedish Parliament, Leona secretly launches a training program for criminals willing to participate in the heist of an armored car she's planning. How to escape apprehension is a key lesson. She eventually falls for one enrollee, David Lind, who, unbeknownst to Leona, is a police informer. Rapid-fire cuts between narrators convey the vicious uncertainties of Leona's near-sociopathic hallucinogenic struggle to pay off her debt and make a better life for her school-aged daughter. Rogneby draws effectively on her background in criminology and experience as a Stockholm police detective, but plot inconsistencies and a multitude of sentence fragments will leave some readers dissatisfied.
