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Crime FictionROBERT KVIBYRobert Kviby, born 1976, is a full-time writer and lives in Stockholm.Previously he has worked as a market manager in a major mediacompany. De korrupta is his litterary debut and the first title in theseries about Annie and Max Lander.De korrupta/The CorruptFebruari 2012, 311 pagesSenior Editor: Annika Seward-Jensen, TelegramSample translation and extensive summary in English availableMore than 32.000 copies soldRights sold to: Rowohlt, GermanyAlbatros, PolandSmart, Driven and Exciting to the Very Last Page”They were all prostitutes. All under thirty. Found inwooded areas and parks. Naked. They had been killedelsewhere and dumped where their bodies werediscovered. She was convinced it was systematic. Allfour of them had met the same man, and it had led totheir deaths. ”Friday night, January 1989, criminal reporter Annie Landeris the last one left in the editorial office as usual. For sometime she has been working on a story about four murderedprostitutes, convinced that there is a pattern betweenthem. The talk of the town is that a private club hosts partiesfilled with prostitutes and that there might be connectionsto the murders. Then she is ordered by the newspaperto seize with her investigations.Annie continues on her own and is starting to get close,both to the real story about the women, as well as to thetruth about her own life and the unsolved murder of hermother. And then suddenly she is gone.Annie’s husband Max soon realizes that the police won’texert themselves to find her, that it is all up to him. He followsher investigation to a country manor owned by a powerfulcorporate magnate, close to where her mother hadbeen found dead thirty years earlier. But nothing has preparedhim for what he will find.De korrupta is a thrilling read from the first page to the last.This impressive debut novel introduces Annie and MaxLander, and their crusade against the corrupt.Press voices:“To the true conspiracy theorist, MTG-director Robert Kviby’shard-boiled detective story is a pleasure. To gather research Kvibyhas tiptoed around the Wanted editorial team and got inside infofrom various gentlemen’s clubs. Well done! “ Metro”De korrupta is a really exciting book that is hard to put down.Kviby has decided to place his history in the 80s, an unusual erain crime novels. Kvibys descriptions of settings and time are vividand they are naturally woven into the history.” Bokbrus.selinda.altrovberg@norstedts.secatherine.mork@norstedts.seasa.bergman@norstedts.se