Lost Colony

The Hennepin Island Murders

By: Berg

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Paperback | 17 October 2023

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366 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 2.08

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Nordic Noir Comes to America

Thirty years after the shocking and never-solved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm, an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church's immigrant janitor is also slain, execution style.

The crime shocks Hennepin Island, the church's time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood, where Span Lokken, a demoralized newspaperman and his improbable partner, Maggie Lindberg, the murdered clergyman's stylish young assistant, join forces to search for the killers.

The trail leads to the castle fortress of the island's reclusive kingpin, Jonas Kron, whose "lost colony" delusions hide a gripping international mystery that brings the story full circle. Along the way, the curious bond between the unlikely detectives - Span and Maggie - only deepens as they seek to fill the empty spaces in their own lives.

Industry Reviews

"Fast-paced, riveting and intriguing, a brilliant twist on an international murder mystery." David Zucchino, Pulitzer Prize winner, 2021 and 1989

Fans of "Fargo" will delight in Steve Berg's fast-paced, inventive, and occasionally macabre-but-loony storytelling that's best described as a sm¶rg¥sbord of Minnesota Noir with a touch of Scandinavian "DaVinci Code." Peter Lewis, Executive Editor, Asheville Watchdog

Gruesome mysteries spanning decades and continents bring together the cast of compelling, complex characters who are at the heart of this memorable tale. Scott Gillespie, Editorial page editor, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Lost Colony is a love story deftly entwined with an international murder mystery, written with an eye for detail only possible when the author is an accomplished journalist turning his pen to fiction." Dawn Garcia, Director, John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships, Stanford University

In Steve Berg's fast-paced and well-written thriller, the solution to the unsolved assassination of Olof Palme, is found in Minnesota, the most Swedish of all the states in America. Now that's a story and what a great read it is! Klas Bergman, Swedish-American journalist and author

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