Detective Stories • Thriller

Zrno istine

Christian Unge

A tense and fast-paced novel with extraordinary and unusual characters that will stay in your memory for a long time.

An unknown woman wanders the corridors of Nobel Hospital in Stockholm holding the hand of a little boy. He is trying to find an elderly man who died in a car accident. During this time, emergency doctor Tekla Berg saves the life of a seriously injured younger man who was brought to the hospital in critical condition after the same accident. The disaster that soon follows shocks and confuses the hospital staff as well as the police. Director Monica Carlsson wants to privatize the Nobel Hospital, so she opens a controversial liver transplant unit and hires the famous surgeon Klas Nyström. It soon becomes clear that Klas has his own plans and is doing everything he can to discredit Tekla. But Tekla just wants to discover the truth about what happened to the mysterious woman and why she ended up in the hospital, as well as discover the boy's true identity...

Original title

Ett litet korn av sanning

Translation

Lidija Lebinec

Editor

Dijana Oršolić Hrstić

Graphics design

Janka Carev

Dimensions

21 x 13.5 cm

Pages

475

Publisher

Znanje, Zagreb, 2023.

Latin alphabet. Paperback.

Language: Croatian.

ISBN

978-9-53360-826-6

One copy is available

Condition:Used, excellent condition

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