The Bucket List, the award-winning debut novel by writing team Peter Mohlin and Peter NystrÃļm, launches a gripping new Nordic noir series featuring Swedish American FBI agent John Adderley.
When undercover FBI agent John Adderley wakes up in the hospital in Baltimore with gunshot wounds, he knows heâs lucky to be alive. In the bed next to him is the man who, the night before, had pointed a gun to Johnâs head after his cover was blown with the drug
cartel heâd infiltrated.
Ten years earlier, in Karlstad, Sweden, rebellious teenager and sole heiress of the AckWe clothing empire Emilie Bjurwall is missing. The police find forensic evidence near the familyâs lavish home that suggests a sex crime, and a boy from the poorer part of town is
questioned. Another clue, from a Facebook photo, is an odd tattoo of three boxesâtwo with tattooed check marks and the third with a tick carved directly into the girlâs skinâEmilieâs bucket list. Emilie is never found.
While recovering in the hospital, John receives a letter from his estranged mother in Sweden pleading for his help: a famous cold case involving the Bjurwall heiress has been reopened, and his half-brother is the suspect. After testifying at the cartelâs trial, John
requests Sweden for witness protection despite the risk to his lifeâhe has a connection to the place, as he was raised there. As stirrings of an old familial duty converge with the intriguing details of Emilieâs unsolved disappearance, Agent John Adderley finds himself in
Sweden, with a new identity and a police detective jobâdangerously close to the stillbeating heart of the Bjurwall cold case and his own complex family history.