A Grain of Truth

Dr. Tekla Berg is a stressed-out, sleep-deprived, and pill-popping central character in the novel "Hell and High Water." She is found wandering the corridors of Nobel Hospital in Stockholm, accompanied by a young boy. Meanwhile, in one of the emergency rooms, Tekla is fighting to save a patient who was seriously injured in the same incident. The resulting chaos goes beyond anything anyone could have predicted, leaving hospital staff, police, and everyone else involved equally shocked and perplexed.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 480 pages
Publication date: 08 June 2023
Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Stressed-out, sleep-deprived, and pill-popping Dr. Tekla Berg is a central character as unusual as you will find. Irish Independent describes her as a "terrific character." Literary Review praises her as a "brilliant character." Susi Holliday calls her a "memorable protagonist." Imran Mahmood describes her as a "scalpel-sharp character." Jens Lapidus calls her a "woman who is found wandering the corridors of Nobel Hospital in Stockholm, accompanied by a young boy." She appears to be looking for a man who was involved in a car accident earlier that day. Meanwhile, in one of the emergency rooms, Tekla Berg is fighting to save a patient who was seriously injured in the same incident. The resulting chaos goes beyond anything anyone could have predicted, leaving hospital staff, police, and everyone else involved equally shocked and perplexed. Hospital Director Monica Carlsson has stepped up her attempts to privatize her fiefdom with the launch of an exclusive patient hotel, a controversial liver transplant unit, and the prestigious recruitment of star surgeon Klas Nyström. It soon becomes obvious that Klas has his own agenda and is working to undermine Tekla at every turn. But Tekla is too distracted to meet this challenge head-on: she has become obsessed with the mystery surrounding the woman and her young charge—for the boy's identity remains unknown, and no trace of his past can be found. Reviews for Hell and High Water describe it as a "gripping crime novel." The Literary Review praises it as "as gripping as it could be." Irish Independent calls it an "authentic and seriously exciting debut." Translated from the Swedish by George Goulding and Sarah de Senarclens, Hell and High Water is a must-read for fans of crime fiction.

Weight: 332g
Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529416596