Lost Colony
The Hennepin Island Murders
by Steve Berg
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Pub Date Oct 17 2023 | Archive Date Nov 18 2023
Evets Publishing | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
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Description
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.
Advance Praise
Fast-paced, riveting and intriguing, a brilliant twist on an international murder mystery. David Zucchino, Pulitzer prize winning author, 2021 and 1989
"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, author of "Scandinavians in the State House: How Nordic Immigrants Shaped Minnesota Politics."
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798988363712 |
| PRICE | $17.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 370 |
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Featured Reviews
Ron B, Reviewer
Brilliant compilation of past and present in this international murder thriller. Exciting reading that was hard to put down and filled with twists and turns that lead to an explosive finale. Highly recommended read and worthy of five stars.
Saju K, Reviewer
Lost Colony masterfully weaves together a complex transatlantic mystery, juxtaposing a tragic cold case in Sweden with a brutal double homicide in modern-day Minnesota. When a crusading priest is found gruesomely killed in his Minneapolis church, along with an executed janitor, the heinous act shakes the small riverside community to its core.Local newspaperman Span Lokken teams up with Maggie Lindberg, a minister at a Lutheran church with secrets in her past, running their own investigation to the senseless murders.
Even as the complex plot expands, the unlikely bond between Lokken and Lindberg remains the emotional core.
An eccentric ensemble of characters, each wrestling with their own hidden demons, realistic descriptions of the island setting and church all anchor the story in palpable realism.
Lost Colony delivers on all fronts and is a definitely recommended book.
My thanks to Netgalley for providing me a copy of the book for my unbiased review.
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