The Black Path

The Black Path is the third book in the series by Asa Larson involving Rebecka Martinsson.

Rebecca Martinsson has recently been released from a psychiatric hospital after having had a shocking experience involving the deaths of several people.  She had been a successful financial lawyer, and now Chief Prosecutor, Alf Bjornfot wants to put her back to work.  He is granted the opportunity to offer her a short term position.

On a lake nearby a body of a woman has been discovered frozen inside a fishing shack in the midst of a winter storm.  Inspector Anna-Maria Mella and Sven-Erik Stalnacke are tasked with the investigation.  Thee victim is identified as a person who was at a meeting held by a mining company at their lodge on the same lake.

Author Asa Larson spends time allowing the reader to get to know the victim, her brother and her employer.  Apparently they have been close for some time, however Inspector Mella isn't so sure that everything is a bed of roses.  She asks Martinsson to investigate the victim.

A coat found in the water beneath the fishing shack points to a foreigner who could be connected to the murder.  Mella is surprised when a reporter approaches her to tell her that a fellow reporter had been investigating the mining company, then suddenly committed suicide.  After speaking to the widow, Mella and Stalnacke are convinced it wasn't suicide after all.  The pathologist confirms it was murder.

The investigation expands as Larson takes the reader in a tale of international intrigue and murder.  This is a book that you will not want to put down.