Babylon

Front Cover
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2012 - Fiction - 293 pages

Inspector Christian Tell and his team are called to the scene of a double murder. University lecturer Anne-Marie Karpov lies dead in her home, alongside her student and lover, Henrik. The crime appears straightforward: Henrik's girlfriend Rebecca, a woman in therapy for her violent jealousy, had been spotted outside Karpov's flat, and her fingerprints are found on the door.

But shortly afterwards, when Rebecca's flat is burgled in a seemingly unconnected attack, Tell begins to wonder whether she might be the victim in a larger game. It emerges that items on the Red List - artefacts raided from Iraqi museums - were found among Henrik's possessions. As the truth behind Anne-Marie and Henrik's past begins to emerge, the dead woman's ex-husband, Danish gangsters and Turkish black marketeers all come into the frame. Tell must unravel a web of hidden motives that spans continents, all while trying to salvage his stormy relationship with Seja.

Other editions - View all

About the author (2012)

Camilla Ceder was born in 1976. She studied Social Science and Psychotherapy, and besides being an author she also works in counselling and social work. FROZEN MOMENT, her debut novel, went straight into the Top 10 in Sweden, and earned comparisons with Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson. http://pinterest.com/millanceder/