| ISBN |
9781471148866 (paperback) |
| Name |
Ohlsson, Kristina, 1979- author. |
| Uniform title |
Mio's blues. English |
| Title |
The lies we tell / Kristina Ohlsson ; translated by Neil Smith. |
| Published |
London : Simon & Schuster, 2018. |
| ©2016 |
| Description |
423 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Notes |
First published in Sweden by Piratforlaget under the tilte Mio's blues, 2015. |
| "How far would you go to save a life?" -- cover. |
| Summary |
Stockholm criminal lawyer Martin Benner is frantically chipping away at the false confession and fabricated evidence linking the deceased Sara Texas to a string of killings. Mio, Sara's four-year-old son, is missing, and Martin has been dragged into finding the child against his will. Meanwhile, someone is trying to frame Martin for murders he didn't commit. Investigators are closing in on him, and time is running out. The bodies continue to pile up, as the people with whom Martin has shared his story begin to die, one by one. And when it becomes clear that the identity of the killer and that of Mio's kidnapper are one and the same, Martin realizes that he cannot save both Mio and himself. He has to choose... |
| Language note |
Translated from the Swedish. |
| Subjects |
Criminal defense lawyers -- Fiction |
| Evidence, Criminal -- Fiction |
| Missing children -- Fiction |
| Kidnapping -- Fiction |
| Serial murderers -- Fiction |
| Serial murder investigation -- Fiction |
| Stockholm (Sweden) -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Detective and mystery fiction |
| Other Names |
Smith, Neil (Neil Andrew) translator. |
| Series |
Martin Benner 2. |
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