Concerned by the details of the case report, Grens can't help but think someone capable of such violence must have a history of it. No one except Detective Superintendent Ewert Grens. As drunken brawls are commonplace on the Baltic cruising ferries, no one raises an eyebrow. One night, he loses his temper with a man harassing women in the crowd, beating him unconscious. A cheap crooner by the name of John Schwarz earns his keep on a ferry between Sweden and Finland, singing for drunken passengers. Translated from the original Swedish by Kari Dickson. Following his intuition, Grens launches an investigation that spans from Sweden to the United States and reveals a startling connection between the Frey and Schwarz cases.įeaturing a multilayered plot with a killer twist, CELL 8 takes readers on a gripping, page-turning journey that explores the devastating repercussions of the death penalty as well as the fallout from the conflicting desires for public justice and private retribution.First edition. The Stockholm police arrest Schwarz for aggravated assault, but when Grens learns that the assailant has been living in Sweden under a false identity, he begins to suspect that something darker and more complex underlies the incident. Six years later, on a ferry between Finland and Sweden, a singer named John Schwarz viciously attacks a drunken lout harassing a woman, leaving the man in a coma.
When Frey unexpectedly dies of heart disease before he either receives his just punishment or achieves redemption, the wheels of justice grind to a halt. The victim's father hungers for revenge, while a prison guard is torn by compassion for the young man.
In Ohio, seventeen-year-old John Meyer Frey rots on Death Row for the brutal murder of his girlfriend. FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF THREE SECONDS.ĭetective Superintendent Ewert Grens of THREE SECONDS returns in a riveting mystery that centers on perhaps the most controversial subject in the modern criminal justice system: the death penalty.
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