Synopses & Reviews
When freelance reporter Annika Bengtzon gets a call that a murdered woman's body is lying in a Stockholm graveyard, she knows immediately that this story might be her ticket to the permanent job she craves. Annika's position at the big-city tabloid is tenuous and her mother and boyfriend want her to come back to the local paper she has worked for, to stay near home and settle down. As she pursues the murderer, battling the male-dominated cliques of the newsroom, Annika must also overcome her own inexperience and the instincts that will draw her much too close to the story. Studio Sex is the prequel to Liza Marklund's international bestseller The Bomber that also featured Annika Bengtzon. Studio Sex inhabits the same cutthroat world of the tabloid reporter, rendered with precision and intelligence by Sweden's most popular novelist. But Studio Sex also introduces fascinating new terrain for most American readers, that of a political scandal in one of Europe's most solidly Social Democratic welfare states. When the political imbroglio seems to intersect with what happened at a Stockholm sex club, the cover-ups and switchbacks can be cher
Synopsis
This prequel to "The Bomber" is already a blockbuster international bestseller. Set eight years before the events of "The Bomber, " Swedish tabloid reporter Annika Bengtzon is immersed in an underworld of sex clubs, sinister power plays, and an overwhelming media feeding frenzy when a government minister is suspected of rape and murder.
About the Author
Liza Marklund is a print and television journalist.
Studio Sex, her second novel, has been on the bestseller list in Sweden for more than a year. She lives in Stockholm with her husband and three children.