Inspector Maja · Book 1
Perfect Attachment
Stockholm crime scene: two bodies chemically fused. Maja and her partner have 36 hours before the feds take over.
“Intense Swedish thriller exploring research, ethics, and human attachment.”
— Booklife
Crime fiction
Two detectives. Two cities. Atmospheric crime.
The Inspector Maja and Omus Jones series — Stockholm and Bristol, by Julien St. James.
The crime series
Two series. Two cities.
Inspector Maja works Stockholm. Omus Jones works Bristol. Start with either.
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Perfect Attachment
St. James’s first offering in his Inspector Maja series pierces the limits of humanity, as Detective Maja Norberg and her partner, Sven Svensson, are entangled in a string of gruesome murders unfolding in Stockholm, Sweden. When a middle-of-the-night call brings Maja to a horrifying crime scene—two bodies fused together with a chemical compound, brutally murdered, and arranged to be discovered—she realizes this is a case like none other, the kind that will “follow her home… [and] sit at her kitchen table during her solitary dinners, [whispering] to her in the small hours when sleep refuse[s] to come.” As more bodies are found—and the media dubs the culprit “The Adhesive Killer”—Maja and Sven have just 36 hours to solve the case before the feds take over.
"Intense Swedish thriller exploring research, ethics, and human attachment"
— Booklife
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