About the Author:
Carl-Johan Vallgren is one of Sweden's most popular writers and musicians. He has been awarded the prestigious August Prize for Best Novel of the Year, and his work has been translated into 25 languages. This is the second book featuring computer genius and troubled drug addict Danny Katz, after The Boy in the Shadows.
Review:
"Carl-Johan Vallgren's ingeniously plotted The Tunnel is gritty and gruesome...These storylines and their resolutions skillfully merge in an exciting denouement. There is also a plot twist that will make readers want to catch up with Vallgren's first, recently reprinted, Danny Katz murder mystery, The Boy in the Shadows.―Hadassah Magazine
"Searing . . . Katz, a former military intelligence officer who was once a heroin addict, [encounters] such ugly aspects of contemporary Sweden as rampant cross-border financial crimes, large-scale police corruption, the rising specter of neo-Nazism, and a thriving sex trade."―Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"[Carl-Johan Vallgren] is also a master of the poetry of violence--a stabbing is described as "a thin slice of concentrated heat"--and he captures the experience of a heroin fix as vividly as perhaps, anyone has . . . Truly memorable."
―Booklist
"In this follow-up thriller, beautifully translated, [ex-junkie polyglot Danny Katz] undertakes to find his former drug supplier, Ramón, and Ramón's girlfriend, both of whom have disappeared . . . Powerful."
―Theodore Feit, Spinetingler Magazine
"The violence and drug scenes are graphically haunting, the pace is frenetic, and the terror palpable . . . Gripping Scandinavian noir."―Library Journal
"[Vallgren] shows that people are neither good or bad, but likely right in the middle. And that is the attraction. Placing yourself in the shoes of criminals, investigators, and informants."
―Great Mysteries & Thrillers
"If Hieronymus Bosch had been a writer instead of a painter, this is the novel he might have written. The Tunnel by Carl-Johan Vallgren rips away the façade of civilized behavior to reveal the foul underbelly of Swedish society . . . suspenseful, gritty, and well-plotted."―New York Journal of Books
"Vallgren's story hits hard, aiming for the pitch inside the psyche of anyone who has spent time in the darkness, either literally or psychologically. In a country that appears as a storybook vacation for those who have watched the Northern lights, the quaint harbors, fjords, mountainsides . . . Sweden has another side to it. Stockholm carries with it horrors that many have difficulty imagining . . . Vallgren's nightmarish visions feel natural on the page."
―Cemetery Dance
Praise for The Boy in the Shadows
"Impressive . . . grittiness abounds till we reach the pinnacle--a deliciously scary, bloodthirsty climax I defy anyone to read without all the lights on."―The Bookbag
"With his chilly, foreboding style, Vallgren recalls other Scandinavian mystery writers. But as exemplified by Katz's Jewish background and other details, the book departs the mainstream so strongly defined by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. A thriller with an offbeat, personal edge."
―Kirkus
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