| | |  | | Home » Until Thy Wrath Be Past | | | | | | | Description: | | A vivid tale of suspense from one of Sweden's finest crime writers.
As spring arrives in the far north of Sweden, a young woman's body surfaces through the breaking ice of the River Thorne. At the same time, visions of a shadowy figure haunt the dreams of Rebecka Martinsson, a prosecutor in nearby Karuna. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? And where is the dead girl's boyfriend?
Joining forces once again with Police Inspector Anna-Maria Mella, Rebecka finds herself drawn into an investigation that stirs up long-dormant rumors of a German supply plane that went missing in 1943--and of Nazi collaborators in the town, where shame and secrecy shroud the locals' memories of the war.
And on the windswept shore of a frozen lake lurks a murderer who will kill again to keep the past buried forever beneath half a century's silent ice and snow.
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| Asa Larsson | | Hardcover:
| 256 pages | | Publisher:
| SilverOak | | Publication Date:
| November 01, 2011 | | Language:
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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Victim Haunts Larsson's "Wrath"Oct 20, 2011
By Librarian
Wilma recalls the day she and Simon died: "I remember how we died. I remember, and I know. . . . I was seventeen." Wilma's spirit has been wandering the village of Piilijärvi, nearly 50 miles southeast of Kiruna, for eight months before her body is found. Her great-grandmother, Anni, still has the pancakes she was making for Wilma that day in her freezer. And as her body is removed from the River Torne, Wilma knows that now her great-grandmother can finally cry.
A week after police remove what is left of Wilma from the river, forensic analysis confirms District Prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson's suspicion that Wilma's death was not a diving accident, but murder. Inspector Anna-Maria Mella heads the investigation. Although she feels estranged from her team after a questionable judgment call the previous year, Mella knows she has a job to do: Find who murdered Wilma and, by assumption, Simon. The two obvious suspects are the district's own local mafioso-type brothers, Tore and Hjalmar Krekula, who operate the family hauling business. Everyone, it seems, knows better than to cross the Krekula family. Proving the brothers had anything to do with Wilma's death will not be easy and almost certainly dangerous.
Åsa Larsson's "Until Thy Wrath Be Past," fourth in the Rebecka Martinsson series, is not a straight-forward tale. Told in many voices from many perspectives, the story fluctuates between past and present events. Piilijärvi is a small community where memories and relationships go back a long way. Who aided or resisted the Germans during World War II is still a sensitive topic. Childhood incidents of sibling rivalry are not easily dismissed. Additionally, through the voice of Wilma's spirit, the victim is actively present, lending yet another dimension to this police procedural. Likewise, part of the narrative is told through Tore and Hjalmar, the main suspects. And, both Martinsson and Mella are struggling with personal and professional decisions about their futures, adding depth to these two principal characters. While this constant shifting of the narrative ground provides a major force of interest, the murder plot itself comes off as somewhat weak and convoluted. But despite this drawback, Larsson knows her characters and setting. Her Sweden is far from perfect but definitely revealing and her characters are full and alive. For both fans and new explorers of Scandinavian mysteries, "Until Thy Wrath Be Past" is well worth reading.
19 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 Another great Rebecka MartinssonAug 10, 2011
By peter at scandinavianbooks.com
"Peter"
Until Thy Wrath be Past starts with a bang. The 17-year-old Wilma Persson, who together with her boyfriend is diving beneath the ice of Lake Vittangijärvi, looking for the wreck of a Nazi transport airplane that crashed there during the War, tells the story of how she and her boyfriend is murdered. They have dived from a whole they have sawed in the ice, and someone has closed the hole, thus preventing them for surfacing. Wilma fights desperately to survive, but knows that soon there will be no more air. And then the air runs out, and there is only the ice cold water of Lake Vittangijärvi.
This is a remarkable and interesting book, very well written, about repression, violence, devotion and ruthlessness. Until Thy Wrath be Past is a great crime fiction novel, and I am already looking forward to the next Rebecka Martinsson novel!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
An excellent book. Highly recommended.Jan 08, 2012
By E. J.
The story reminded me of Fargo in the depth of the plot and in the excellent descriptions of the locale. A young boy and a girl initially seem to have drowned in a river but sharp detectives quickly find out that the case is that of a murder. The boy's body is never found but the girl's has been and her spirit now helps guide the investigation forward. The investigation uncovers old secrets and crimes that many wish were forgotten.
This is an excellent thriller. It touches you deeply as you read about the innocents' thoughts, about the living's goodness, and as you encounter evil. It describes Sweden's best and worst. If you have elderly family members, you'll relate to the girl's great grandmother.
Highly recommended.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Mystery Fans: A Must-Read for 2012!Jan 07, 2012
By Lisa Marie
Asa Larsson is one of Sweden's/Scandinavian/Nordic top crime fiction writers - right up there with Henning Mankell and Arnaldur Indridason for my money. I've read all her books and she just gets better and better with each one. Her latest, UNTIL THY WRATH BE PAST, is her best to date.
While typically dark and unsentimental like her contemporaries, her books also offer themes of hope, compassion and redemption. This newest entry - featuring Prosecutor Rebecca Martinson pits her and police detective Anna Marie Mella - starts off with the thoughts of a young woman named Wilma who, along with her boyfriend, was recently murdered. (This is not a spoiler of any sort, not to worry.) When her body is discovered in a nearby lake, the authorities are called in and soon Anna Marie and Rebecca find themselves pitted against shockingly evil adversaries. The storyline floats between the current-day events, including Wilma's thoughts, to events which took place decades ago and figure deeply into how and why the two young innocent people were so cruelly murdered.
The story was heartbreaking, uplifting and breathtaking. Highly recommended!
OutstandingApr 22, 2012
By P. Schumacher
I have read many of the new crop of Scandinavian noir--Mankell, Nesbo, Indrithason, James Thompson, Adler-Olson, etc.--and have enjoyed them all. But this is by far the best.
Asa Larsson is a brilliant novelist, as well as being a brilliant mystery-writer.
She pushes the envelope in every way.
First, she includes characters who are already dead--who narrate, take part, observe. Far from seeming ridiculous, this adds immeasurably to the atmosphere and to the relationships.
Second, she is wonderful at developing characters: all her characters come alive at a touch. You care about them from the start, even the awful ones.
Third, she is great at family-dynamics, and in fact community-dynamics, and how people buckle under the stresses of war.
Fourth, she creates palpable tension. Even though the Who is clear from the start, the Why (always more interesting) remains out of reach, till the end.
Fifth, she creates amazing symbols. These are so deft that you hardly notice them, but their cumulative weight is powerful. For example, at the end you realize that Hjalmar has lived his whole life in prison--prison of family, prison of fat, prison of his chained-up mind--and it is only when he gets to actual prison that he is free.
I could go on, but suffice it to say: the book is fascinating from beginning to end.
The writer Larsson reminds me of most is Kate Atkinson, in her later, Jackson Brodie books. And that is very high praise.
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