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The Black Path (novel)

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The Black Path
First edition (Swedish)
AuthorÅsa Larsson
Original titleSvart stig
TranslatorMarlaine Delargy
LanguageSwedish
SeriesRebecka Martinsson, #3
Genrecrime fiction
PublisherAlbert Bonniers förlag (Swedish)
Bantam Dell (English)
Publication date
August 2006
Publication placeSweden
Published in English
2008
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages423p. (Swedish)
384p. (English)
ISBN9789100115906 (Swedish)
9780385341011 (English)
Preceded byThe Blood Spilt 
Followed byUntil Thy Wrath be Past 

The Black Path (Swedish: Svart stig, 2006) is a crime novel by Swedish writer Åsa Larsson, the third in the Rebecka Martinsson series.[1] It was published in the US in 2008 in paperback by Bantam Dell, and in the UK in 2012 in hardcover by MacLehose Press.

Irene Scobbie of Swedish Book Review states that the strength of the work is in the character portrayal and in the "authentic Lapland setting". She believes that several of the native Lapland characters have "an almost exotic flavour: an old woman with clairvoyant qualities, two peasant women with artistic gifts, and Killis’s young half-sister who embodies all these qualities and (less convincing in the final stages) becomes a kind of Pippi Longstocking figure as she takes on her half-brother’s enemies".[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Åsa Larsson, Svart stig (The Black Path)". Swedish Book Review. Retrieved 17 September 2014.