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2000s: From Newcastle via Edinburgh to Malmö…this is a trail of murder..
Meet me in Malmö (Inspector Sundström 1)
What you need to know before your trail
Ewan Strachan is a journalist working for a third rate publication in Newcastle, England who gets invited to interview an old university friend who now lives in Sweden. This friend Mick Roslyn is now a famous film director in Sweden and married to one of his leading ladies. He’s appearing at the Edinburgh film festival and before long Ewan is off to Malmö to get his interview. However on arrival, he discovers Mick’s film star wife dead in their apartment.
The police start investigating and Inspector Anita Sundström soon finds the list of suspects growing. She battles to discover the answers despite obstacles from every direction. Ewan meanwhile becomes ever more involved and dangerously so.
Locations
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Durham – North East England
Life at university was good – for a while. When Ewan Strachan and Mick Roslyn were at university together they became good friends. The novel opens with an apparent suicide of a female student at the university. This colours a troublesome time for the two friends but we leave these days behind and jump 25 years with this lingering in the background. The gothic spears of the Cathedral rise above the dark and chilling scene.
Sweden – Malmö
Anita Sundström working for the Skåne police is an attractive if yet disorganized individual, but she’s the calm which balances out the chauvinistic boss Erik Moberg. This high profile murder makes her city a dark and dangerous place especially when she falls for the prime suspect. The case is significant as it is a direct reminder of another high profile murder – that of the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme – and Mick was working on a project which threatened to shed a light on this still unsolved case. Olof Palme was murdered coming out of a cinema with his wife on a inner city street -Sveavägen – in Stockholm and the murder has never been solved. This case has troubled the Swedish people ever since as they were always proud of how such high profile people felt free enough to walk the streets without security. But now, things have changed. Malmö is even likened to an American inner city-
“It was a knifing the policeman over there had said to the woman in the fur hat standing behind those two students. Malmö was becoming like New York”
Could the town of Malmö now be experiencing that level of uncertainty and fear? Anita isn’t even sure if those within the local police force can always be the beacon of truth.
Locations and friends tied and twisted together.
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Sweden: Malmö Town Hall
North East England, Durham University
The two friends meet here
The two friends meet here
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