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Lifetime
Lifetime
Lifetime
Audiobook10 hours

Lifetime

Written by Liza Marklund

Narrated by India Fisher

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

3.5/5

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Nothing is as it seems....

Police officer Nina Hoffman is called to the scene of a grisly crime. There she finds fellow officer and friend David Lindholm naked on his bed, shot through the head and stomach. His traumatized wife, Julia, is in shock, and can barely form a coherent sentence. She hovers near the body, rambling on about a woman entering the house, killing David, and running off with their son—but all the evidence points to her guilt. Annika Bengtzon is drawn headfirst into the case, because she believes that Julia is about to be falsely charged. But will anyone else believe it?

Chilling and complex, this thriller will have you guessing until the shocking end.

“One of the most dynamic and popular crime writers of our time." – Patricia Cornwell

“In a league of her own.” – Henning Mankell

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 10, 2013
ISBN9781469209289
Lifetime
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Liza Marklund

Liza Marklund is an author, journalist, and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Her crime novels featuring the relentless reporter Annika Bengtzon instantly became international hits, and have sold millions of copies in thirty languages worldwide. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and Marbella, Spain, where she is at work on the next installment in the series.

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  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This book took seemingly forever to read. I don't know if it was the level of detail in describing people/surroundings, or the endless tangents that the plot/main characters kept going on, but I couldn't wait until I finally finished it so I could move on to something else.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Liza Marklund's latest book Lifetime is the seventh book featuring newspaper reporter Annika Bengtzon. Stockholm, Sweden. Police Officer Nina Hoffman is on patrol when a shots fired call comes in. Nina and her partner race to the scene - only to find that the victim is another cop - and his wife Julia is lying beside him, covered in blood. Worse still - their four year old son is missing. Julia swears there was someone else in the apartment. Nina is sure her friend and former co worker could not do such a thing. Or could she....? Annika knows both women - she did a story on them years before. The high profile case is a story worth investigating. This is the third book I've read by Marklund and I've enjoyed every one. Annika is a complicated protagonist - she's headstrong, impulsive and plunges headlong into her stories. She trusts her instincts and hunches and follows them regardless. But her personal life is in a shambles - she herself is suspected of a crime and her marriage is falling apart. Although I've heard some other readers remark that this secondary storyline muddies the waters of the main plot, I disagree. I quite like seeing the two sides of Annika's life personal and professional. Both story lines held my interest equally. Annika's investigation leads to more questions and links to the past, with the path to answers and resolution anything but straight. Marklund keeps us guessing about Julia until the very end. And the end was a lovely 'gotcha'. Marklund brings the setting to life as well, with descriptions that underline the gritty tone of the mystery. This is an excellent series with a character I quite like. Definitely recommended. I'll be watching for the next in the series
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Despite her apparent success in Sweden -- both as a writer and as a businesswoman -- Liza Marklund hasn't made the transition across the Atlantic. Her first book, The Bomber, wound up on the remainder tables, and the successive titles in her Annika Bengtzon series appear to have found no takers in the English-speaking world (despite her success in Germany). I read the first title in English (courtesy of the remainder table) and then continued in German; and after some work with the language, I have read the last two in Swedish. This is fascinating stuff -- less for the plot intrigues (which are okay, as far as thrillers go) than for the obstinate, striving, naive and ambitious Annika. Curious that the only reviews on LT so far come from Danes; no Swedish commentaries! I find the portrait of the strained, competitive marriage between Thomas and Annika utterly convincing -- including the desperation that Annika shows when dealing with two small children and a husband who is easily seduced by a competitor. No certainties any more; the stern expectation of marriage-forever appears to have disappeared first, and long ago, in Scandinavia, but this couple has found no reconciliation with the new realities. The title"Life Sentence" plays on several levels -- Thomas is doing a financial analysis for political masters of the feasibility of abolishing life imprisonment; crimes described here might be punished with a life sentence; and though marriage is no longer a life sentence, parenthood certainly is.Marklund offers a fascinating look at the seamy profession of tabloid journalist, as well as the management dilemmas of progressively adopting such journalism to the spread of the Internet. Swedish television did a couple of fine dramatizations of Marklund titles that convincingly render the newspaper world.A Danish associate professor at the University of Texas in Austin calls Marklund "the Queen of Scandinavian Crime Fiction." I, for one, am waiting with interest for Marklund's next installment.