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The Bucket List

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by Peter Mohlin
Peter Nystrom
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The Bucket List, the award-winning debut novel by writing team Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström, launches a gripping new Nordic noir series featuring Swedish American FBI agent John Adderley.
When undercover FBI agent John Adderley wakes up in the hospital in Baltimore with gunshot wounds, he knows he's lucky to be alive. In the bed next to him is the man who, the night before, had pointed a gun to John's head after his cover was blown with the drug
cartel he'd infiltrated.
Ten years earlier, in Karlstad, Sweden, rebellious teenager and sole heiress of the AckWe clothing empire Emilie Bjurwall is missing. The police find forensic evidence near the family's lavish home that suggests a sex crime, and a boy from the poorer part of town is
questioned. Another clue, from a Facebook photo, is an odd tattoo of three boxes—two with tattooed check marks and the third with a tick carved directly into the girl's skin—Emilie's bucket list. Emilie is never found.
While recovering in the hospital, John receives a letter from his estranged mother in Sweden pleading for his help: a famous cold case involving the Bjurwall heiress has been reopened, and his half-brother is the suspect. After testifying at the cartel's trial, John
requests Sweden for witness protection despite the risk to his life—he has a connection to the place, as he was raised there. As stirrings of an old familial duty converge with the intriguing details of Emilie's unsolved disappearance, Agent John Adderley finds himself in
Sweden, with a new identity and a police detective job—dangerously close to the stillbeating heart of the Bjurwall cold case and his own complex family history.

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  • Release date

    July 6, 2021

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781705039960
      • File size: 428850 KB
      • Duration: 14:53:26

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Dion Graham has a velvet voice and is particularly skillful with noir drama. His protagonist is John Adderly, a half-Swedish Black FBI agent now in the Witness Protection Program. Tricky, voicing the family accents. Adderly, threatened by a violent international drug ring he helped bust, should have chosen to relocate somewhere he had no history, but he demands Sweden, where his feckless mother is dying, and where the prime suspect in a ten-year-old murder case he'll be assigned to is his half brother. Regrettably, Graham adopts a stutter-step speech pattern that does nothing to serve the text, but the double plot--will Adderly solve the cold case and clear his brother, or will the drug lords find him first--is gripping. B.G. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 31, 2021
      Swedish authors Mohlin and Nyström’s engrossing debut and series launch opens in 2019 in a Baltimore hospital, where FBI agent John Adderley, the son of an American father and a Swedish mother, is recovering from gunshot wounds he sustained while working undercover for a drug cartel. When John receives a letter from his mother imploring him to come home to Sweden and clear his brother Billy’s name in the decade-old murder case of Emelie Bjurwall, who was the heir apparent to a clothing company, he negotiates with his superiors to go undercover in Sweden as a Swedish cop to investigate the case. Flashbacks to 2009 illuminate the strained family life of Sissela and Heimer Bjurwall, Emelie’s parents, and a mysterious “bucket list” tattoo on Emelie’s wrist proves central to Heimer’s comprehension of his daughter’s final days, as well as John’s inquiry, which explains the presence of Billy’s semen on the rock where Emily’s blood was found. Evocative questions about family and professional expectations help ground this knotty, plausible story, articulating the mistakes people make with the ones they love. Scandi noir fans will look forward to this complex lead’s further adventures. Agent: Judith Toth, Nordin Agency (Sweden).

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