300 Degrees
by Pernilla Ericson
Description
Who can you trust to help you put out the fire, when you don’t know who is fanning the flames?
It is summer 2023 and the world is on fire. A brutal heatwave plagues half the world’s countries with drought and firestorms in its wake. In Australia, whole suburbs have been wiped out and in northern Europe, towns and wooded areas from north to south are ablaze.
Police Investigator Lilly Hed has recently left a promising, but chaotic, fast-track management career with the Stockholm police to seek a quieter existence in the archipelago town of Nynäshamn. She hopes that the idyllic coastal town will bring her respite from the secrets and darkness that made her change her life, but she soon learns that she can escape neither her history nor the climate crisis.
Soon after her move, a major forest fire is reported, posing a massive threat to Lily’s new home, pushing the fire department, with the handsome and kind Jesper Hansson at the helm, to its limits. What first appears to be coincidental fires with natural causes soon turn out to be something much worse, and Lilly is put in charge of the investigation. In a desperate race against time and a raging firestorm, someone turns out to not be who they say they are, but what do you do when all
traces of evidence are literally going up in smoke?
300 DEGREES is a page-turning and atmospheric thriller where the
climate and changing environment are as much part of the story as the characters and plot, reminiscent of Jane Harper’s The Dry, where oppressive heat, people showing their true colours under pressure, and dark secrets of the past are at the forefront. It is the first book in a climate-themed crime series by Pernilla Ericson, and is the lead crime title of publisher Romanus & Selling this autumn marking a fresh new start for the author.
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Germany: Fischer Scherz (1+2)
Norwegian: Aschehoug (1-3)
Endorsements
’A truly exciting climate thriller which you can easily relate to, especially after last week’s hot weather. And because of how it’s written, of course.’
Johanna Mo, crime author of The Night Singer
‘I’ll willingly admit that I wasn’t in the mood for a crime novel about fire, but it didn’t take many pages before I capitulated. Incredibly well-researched, well-written and thrilling crime with heart and the climate threat that is more than unsettling in its authenticity. And Lilly Hed is a wonderful heroine. I tip my fireman’s hat to you, Pernilla Ericson. You’re worth all the success.’
Johan Brännström, crime author of Feber
Reviews
‘Of course, the book is both scary and thrilling, and when the fire sets off and spreads the tempo heightens. But, peculiarly, it’s also quite pleasant reading about a young police officer with broken wings, who steadily starts feeling at home in a new place.’
– Dagens Nyheter
‘Recently American author Art Tavana asked “Who’s going to write the first great wildfire novel?”on twitter. Pernilla Ericson’s newest novel takes place just two years into the future, and the sense of being in an apocalypse is especially scary, when the wildfires in California are still raging. It’s as sweaty as in the Spike Lee movie Do the rights thing, and I need to change my shirt while reading…If you can cope reading about the end of times during this already apocalyptic year, you have to read Ericson’s blazing and well-written climate thriller, the first in the series about Lilly Hed.’
– Amelia
‘Speaking of, there are a lot of really nice people in the book. Endearing, and very unusual these days. Fireman Jesper is one of them…Pernilla Ericson’s initiated descriptions of the violent fires and their consequences are both thrilling and informative, and just as nerve-wrecking as the hunt for the murderer. Also the depiction of the small town is detailed, careful and interesting. The text flows easily, and fits perfectly for this kind of book. She’s a journalist, but doesn’t write like one.’
– DAST Magazine
‘Pernilla Ericson depicts the fires and the firemen’s frightening work with conviction and delivers a dramatic resolution with a huge surprise at the end.’
– Norra Skåne
‘Hot crime novel you won’t want to miss this autumn’
Metromode
‘She completely mislead me – I believed I was on the right track but then I was wrong, and that feeling must be the best thing ever.’
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Author Biography
Pernilla Ericson is a journalist and columnist focusing on equality and climate issues at the Swedish daily, Aftonbladet. She debuted in 2016 with a crime series featuring Liv Kaspi, published by HarperCollins Nordic. 300 DEGREES is her fourth crime novel and the first book in the series featuring Lilly Hed.
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Pernilla Ericson, 2020
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- Publisher Romanus & Selling
- Orginal LanguageSwedish
- ISBN/Identifier 9789189051119
- Publication Country or regionSweden
- FormatHardback
- Pages336
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title300 grader
- Copyright Year2020
- SeriesLilly Hed series
- Series Part1
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