This book gently pulled me in with its sweet charade of grandparents spending time with their children and grandchildren. The father/grandfather Stellan, a legendary television presenter, showing an affinity for gardening as he presents his blooms to his daughter. While the mother/grandmother Agneta remains indoors.

To show such a normal family gathering meant that what came next completely pulled the rug from under my feet. As the children are packing up on the drive the phone rings and Agneta hears just one word Geiger. With her children and grandchildren just outside she attaches a silencer to a black Makarov pistol. Approaching her husband she then presses it to his head and squeezes the trigger.

Enter Sara Nowak a prostitution and trafficking investigator who should be nowhere near this case, but being a childhood friend she joins the team investigating Stellan’s murder.

What then follows is a highly complex political tale involving the Cold War and a family with some very dark secrets.

This is not my usual read but I was drawn to the story of an ordinary grandmother committing such an act. Being completely honest I would have much preferred it if it was more of a crime thriller as I’m afraid the espionage and Cold War was a bit lost on me and I found at times it got a bit too complicated. I will say though that the translation is fabulous and I can see this being a great read for fans of John le Carré.

Wow! This book starts explosively from the very first chapter. Sisters Lotta and Malin, together with their husbands, return from some time away to collect their children who have been staying with their grandparents Agneta and Stellan Broman. They don’t stay long, and are soon bundling their children into their respective cars with all the paraphernalia that they’ve taken with them. As they’re saying their goodbyes, Stellan is already settled in his favourite armchair with a book and some music on in the background, and Agneta has come to wave them off, but then the phone rings. She hurriedly says her farewells, shuts the door and goes to answer it. The caller says one word: “Geiger”.

Lotta has no way of knowing that as she and her family are driving away, as she’s shaking her head at the quirks of old age and her parent’ insistence at still having a landline (“who still has a landline?”), her mother has gone to retrieve a hidden firearm, attached a silencer to it, returned downstairs, stood behind her husband and shot him in the head! She then takes a bag that has been prepared and waiting for just this occasion for many years … and disappears, leaving her wallet and keys behind.

Sara Nowak is a policewoman, and although she is not assigned to the case, she was extremely close to the Broman family when she was much younger. So when her colleague Anna calls her to the house just hours after Stellan’s murder, she doesn’t hesitate. Maybe she could offer some insight that nobody else can … possibly get the inside edge on the killer – who on earth would want to kill a benign grandfather? Because for most of Sweden, ‘Uncle Stellan’ was a national icon; a well-loved, top television personality known by all. There wasn’t a single person who disliked him or bore a grudge against him. It seemed like in his entire public career, he’d never set a foot wrong. And what has happened to Agneta? Where is she?

Time is ticking and answers are needed. Sara knows that they are missing a vital piece in what must be a complex puzzle that they don’t understand, and boy, is she right!! But it’s not just one piece … it’s a whole lot. One puzzle piece will just be the beginning in an avalanche of unexpected information that is about to come to light, exposing long buried secrets, leading Sara to wonder if her entire childhood and youth was an illusion.

The twists and turns don’t stop in this breath-taking thriller that poses many ‘what if?’ questions about the Cold War, Sweden’s stance during those years, defunct spy networks, opinions on capitalism, personal grudges and so much more. It’s clever, intelligent and sophisticated, with just the right level of sharpness to its edginess. It keeps you guessing, dangles you over the edge and pulls you back time and time again, leaving you gasping with shock and surprise.

This is a 4-star read. It’s absorbing and intriguing and I’d recommend it if you’re looking for something that will get a hold of you and not let go right until the very end!

Set in a hot summer in Bromma, Sweden, Geiger begins with a pleasant family scene as sisters, Malin and Lotta, and their husbands, Christian and Petter, return from a holiday in France to collect their children from the grandparents, Stellan (85) and Agneta Broman (69), who have been looking after them for a week in the family home.

As the two families head home and Agneta waves them off, she receives a phone call on the landline and hears a codeword: ‘Geiger’. Things take a dramatic and shocking turn as she takes her gun from its hiding place and shoots her husband in the head. She takes a few items then quickly heads off, taking care not to be seen by anyone. Agneta has been waiting 50 years for this moment. What has caused this horrific act? Is this the event that starts a chain reaction and ends in more deaths?

A police officer called Sara Nowak (44) receives a phone call from Detective Inspector Anna Torhall, her old friend at the police academy, who now works in homicide, telling her about Stellan’s murder. Sara works in street prostitution but, when she was growing up, she was friends with Malin and Lotta and used to spend lots of time at the Broman home, in the days when ‘Uncle Stellan’ was a famous Swedish TV personality who loved entertaining important people at his regular parties. Sara’s mother, Jane, was also a cook and cleaner at the house.

Although it’s not her case, Sara feels compelled to investigate and uncovers information about Stellan from various sources. Sara tries to tell Anna about her suspicions of Stellan’s involvement as a Cold War spy but Anna is dismissive as the police are concentrating their efforts on finding the missing Agneta, who is feared abducted or injured.

Operatives in the intelligence service are also aware Geiger has been activated and that things are starting to kick off after years of inactivity. Something big is happening.

There were some disturbing revelations and the action-packed story zipped along at a fair pace, although I did get a bit confused about some of the Cold War details and the history behind the current events. There’s lots of interesting historical background information and I enjoyed searching online about that and the various Swedish locations mentioned.

I preferred the scenes with Agneta on the run to the more personal and slower scenes with Sara, where we learnt more about her family: husband, Martin, 19-year-old daughter, Ebba, and 14-year-old son, Olle. Sara was a rather volatile character at times and used aggression and violence to get her point across, especially when she confronts the abusive clients of the city’s prostitutes while doing her best to try and protect the women.

The book contains some shocking scenes – violence, torture, rape and sexual imagery – so won’t be for everyone but I felt it was all relevant to the story, if a bit too graphic at times.

Overall, I enjoyed Geiger – the well-plotted story is rather meaty and entertaining and there’s lots of information to get your head around. It’s a fascinating read, full of intrigue and mystery, and lots of secrets, lies and classified information. The characters are well drawn but most of them were rather unlikeable!

I haven’t read a spy thriller for years but I’m not sure why. This was a tense and gripping read, with lots of twists and turns, and I would love to see it on the big screen! I’ve read that it may be the first in a series too so I will eagerly await another book.

The story opened with a scene when lovely grandchildren are leaving Browman's house. When all of them are going, Agneta received a mysterious phone call. One word, 'Geiger', opened the unexpected sequence of events. Firstly, Agneta murdered her husband and ran away in an unknown direction.
Into this strange investigation, Sara Nowak was involved. She's been a close friend to Brownman's daughter in childhood and can't understand why someone would shoot Uncle Stellan, the famous face of Sweden television. Surprisingly police were more worried about the strange disappearance of Agneta - the most controversial character, intriguing from the beginning.
In my opinion, there was a bit too many sexual abuse elements.

Brilliantly written. I was impressed with the construction of the book. All layers are linked together, not interrupting anything. You can find the spy thriller and police criminal, a bit of corruption and politics in one book. You can see how past events can influence the present and future.
'Geiger' definitely brings a spectacular opening, keeping the reader attached from the very beginning to the end. Unexpected events, links between layers build suspense along the way.

Unexpected twist and surprising ending. Phenomenal book, highly recommended.

Thank you, NetGalley and Bonnier Books UK, for the ARC of this title.

Easily one of the best books I've read this year.

There are so many things to love about this but my top three are:

1. The number of female characters and it doesn't feel forced or have any weird sexual descriptions!
2. The age of the characters, I loved that there were older women in this book and as proper characters too.
3. The layers of storytelling is phenomenal.

In addition to my top three, the actual story is so jam packed full of meaty subjects it's difficult to know where to start. It's a spy story and a police crime drama which would be more than enough for anyone but this story has layers of institutional corruption, a whole commentary on celebrity abusers and societies part in the adoration of said celebrities, and a lot about politics and how events we might think are long in the past still have the potential to shape activities today.

This is a meaty book that I loved. I did work out some of the twists but I suspect that was deliberate so I would miss what was happening elsewhere. Highly recommended.

Our story begins with grandmother Agneta Broman waving off her daughters and grandchildren after a seemingly ordinary family get-together, but what happens next is very unexpected - for no sooner are the family out the door, than Agneta receives an enigmatic telephone call that provokes her to shoot her husband Stellan in the head and head off into the unknown. How could the single word "Geiger" cause an old woman to murder her husband of many years and leaver her life behind?

Sara Nowak is a cop that spends her time busting the men who try to buy sex, while attempting to do what she can to help the girls and women forced into prostitution, but she is not sure she that the little she can do is enough to make any real impact on the problem. Her life takes a surprising turn when she receives a call from one of her colleagues telling her about the murder of Stellan Broman and the disappearance of his wife. Sara was close childhood friends with the Broman's daughters Lotta and Malin, and she cannot understand why anyone would want to kill Stellan, a former television celebrity beloved by all, or abduct Agneta.

Although this case is not Sara's to investigate, she cannot help looking into the murder, feeling a compulsion to do what she can for the family that showed her and her mother so much kindness when she was a child, but what she discovers makes her reassess everything she thought she knew about the past. She begins to realise that the rosy picture of childhood summers that she has carried around with her all her life does not reflect the truth and that sinister things were going on in the Broman household - things that impacted upon her own childhood, and things that may have terrible consequences for millions of people in the present unless she can do something to stop the sequence of events now playing out.

Geiger is an entertaining mix of contemporary Scandi crime thriller and Cold War espionage yarn, parts of which are really rather clever, and I liked the way the story cuts backwards and forwards between Sara and Agneta, bringing in elements of the past, present and a horrifying future.

Sara is a tricky character to warm to, but her sheer determination to get to the truth, whatever the toll on her personal and professional lives, drives the story along at a good pace and builds suspense nicely along the way. However, there are times when Skördeman tries to cover too much in Sara's part of the story, with some scenes which are a bit unnecessary in the overall scheme of things - and even, sometimes, a bit gratuitous in terms of the sexual violence portrayed. A bit less would have been more here. Agneta was the most interesting character from me, as she had so much unexpected depth to her story, and conversely, I wanted to read more about her, as the mystery surrounding her real intentions was intriguing.

The way Skördeman spins Sara's investigation, cutting back and forth between the clues she uncovers, and Agneta's mission, works beautifully, and I particularly enjoyed the way Sara's relationship with her mother develops as a result of what she finds. The truth is uncovered gradually, with some pretty hefty, gut-wrenching revelations in connection with political conspiracy, coercion and sexual abuse, and the whole lot is polished off with a couple of little gems of twists that I did not see coming at all. I think it's fair to say that you do need to be up on a fair bit of Cold War politics to fully appreciate how canny this novel is, but if you are a fan of books which delve into the dark days of murky machinations of the Eastern Bloc security services then you are in for a treat with this part of the story.

There are some threads left hanging at the end of this novel, and a bit of a strange twist, that imply Geiger may be the first in a series of books, and I really want to know what happens next. There are certainly plenty of promising elements in this debut that make me want to read more from this author, and with a bit of editing I think this could have been outstanding, so I have my fingers crossed that this will happen - time will tell!

The landline rings... One word 'Geiger' is spoken... Grandma retrieves her gun and creeps up to her husband... trigger is squeezed and then shes gone...

Well! What a start that was, holy shit! It's crazy to think that this isn't even a spoiler, its given right there in the description....

While I really enjoyed the sleeper spy element to this book, the rest was a bit of a yawn fest unfortunately. I was totally lost when it came to the political and geographical aspects to the plot, although understanding that they had a very much needed part to play in the story line!

Every chapter that involves Agneta, the grandmother, is brilliant and fun to read.
The vision of a little old lady swamped in heavy clothes in the blistering heat, while huffing and puffing away on a pink bicycle will not leave me for a while I'm sure! xD

The majority of the book focuses on Sara, the police officer though (the yawn fest part). While she has a part to play in the background of this story, it felt somewhat like a teenager girl desperately stuffing more padding down her blouse. Totally not needed and unnecessary to the overall enjoyment of this book.

(Reviewed reflects 3.5 stars - Reading this on Pigeonhole as staves really saved it from being a DNF!)

What a belting opening! Dotting Agneta lovingly waved her grandchildren goodbye as they left, after she and her husband of more than 50 years had looked after them while their parents had taken a holiday. It only took a phone call and one word to Agneta, who now lived on a cocktail of medication to keep going, to set her on the mission she had waited for all her life. Agneta was not who her family thought she was, Agneta wasn’t Agneta at all. All these years, Agneta had waited for that phone call, and now in her old age, it had come. She calmly put the phone down, took a gun from a hidden place and shot her 85-year-old husband dead.

From the first pages of the story, I was fascinated with Agneta, who was someone that people wouldn’t give a second glance to. I physically cringed to think about what she would have been capable of forty years earlier, she was deadly now, but it was like her mind had a determination that wouldn’t be let down, because of her ageing body. She had people to hunt down to complete her mission and purpose in life. I became engrossed in the storyline as the investigation and Agneta’s mission in the present day and her past progressed through the book. I loved the confusion that she was leaving behind and how inventive she became.

A lot of the story from the early days is seen through the eyes of Agneta’s children, and the cleaner’s daughter. I enjoyed this part of the story very much as they didn’t as children, sometimes understand what was happening around them, until they looked back, and the grey areas make more sense. There are so many layers that begin to link together. It has been a story that made me just read one more chapter and another, always giving more of the past and the aims for the future.

Brilliant reading. I wish to thank The publisher and Net Galley for an e-copy of this book which I have reviewed honestly.

My introduction to Geiger was a powerful promotional tease. A woman waves goodbye to her visiting family, takes a phonecall on which a single word is spoken”Geiger”. She then retrives a hidden pistol and executes her husband. How could you not want to know what followed that?

When you pick up Geiger that tease happens right at the start of the book. The story opens with the end of a family holiday where the grandchildren had been staying with Grandma Agneta and Grandpa Stellan. The grandchildren’s parents have been on holiday but now return to see their parents and recover their children. A happy family gathering where Grandpa Stellan shows off his garden and all his plants and Grandma Agneta tries to keep a degree of calm amongst the brood of grandchildren before they are packed into cars and the holiday ends. As the families depart and goodbye’s are waved that phone call takes place. Grandma Agneta answers and shortly after she steps up behind Grandpa Stellan and shoots him in the back of the head.

Agneta goes on the run. Many years earlier she had a handler, a contact who ensured she had access to an untraceable car, money and another weapon. What prompted this shocking turn of events? The police will initially be stumped. Grandpa Stellan is famously known across Sweden as Uncle Stellan. He was one of Swedish televisions most beloved faces, for years he had been a reliable and safe pair of hands and everyone in Sweden knew and loved Stellan. His murder will cause shockwaves through the country. The disappearance of his wife, Agneta, is the most worrying element for the police – was she kidnapped, is she running for her life or has she been killed and her body hidden? It certainly does not occur to them that Agneta may have been responsible.

Sara Nowak is a Swedish police officer. She works to prevent prostitution, attacks on working women and to stop the men who are exploiting vulnerable women and working as their pimps. Sara struggles to supress her anger when she sees men abusing the women she is trying to protect. Men being arrested are fair game to a kick or a punch from Sara and it is causing problems with her colleague. Sara has just arrested a man for beating a prostitute when the call comes through about Uncle Stellan. As a child Sara had grown up with Stellan and Agneta and she had played with their daughters – Sara’s mother had been the cleaner for the family. Sara rushes to the crime scene intent on being part of the investigation.

From this point on Sara relentlessly pursues the truth behind the family she grew up with. She uncovers a hidden life for Uncle Stellan who appears to have been deeply sympathetic to the East German political approach and there are strong links to the Stasi. His political leanings are just the tip of the iceberg though and Sara will unearth more and more shocking information about the family she clearly did not know as well as she thought.

Dividing her time between official investigations into attacks on the working girls in Sweden and the digging she is doing into Stellan’s disappearance we see Sara stretched and worn down by events. She enlists help from journalists, other police and even the security services will try to tap her for information – Sara will need some quid-pro-quo on that front.

There’s a lot to take in with Geiger. It’s a police drama with a lot of espionage and terrorism elements in there too. I’d recommend this to anyone who enjoys a spy thriller, a police drama and everyone that likes a great story – be warned, however, there are some potentially upsetting elements too best described in a non-spoilery way as “exploitation”.

Well worth hunting this one down – powerful drama.

Geiger is a spy thriller with a great hook. It’s summer in Sweden and Agneta and Stellan Broman have been looking after their grandchildren whilst their daughters, Lottie and Malin and their husbands take a trip to France. They return back to a sweltering Stockholm to collect their offspring, spend some time with their ageing parents and bundle the kids into the car before heading home. As they leave a phone rings in the house, Agneta answers and hears one word; ‘Geiger’. She returns the handset to the cradle, goes upstairs to her bedside table and retrieves a gun. She walks back downstairs and into the living room where her husband is reading a book whilst listening to classical music. She lifts the gun, places it against Stellan’s head and pulls the trigger. And so begins a complex and intricate novel about European politics, the Cold War and spies.

The investigation involves members of the German Secret Service and Stockholm’s Police, with one Detective, Sara Nowak taking a special interest in the case. An investigator into sex crimes, the murder of an elderly man in an affluent part of Stockholm wouldn’t usually be something she would be involved with, but she spent much of her childhood at the house with the Broman family. Her mother was their cleaner, she grew up with Lottie and Malin, and Agenta and Stellan were like second parents to her. She has fond memories of her time there and feels a personal connection to the case, particularly as Agenta is missing. Making it her personal mission to investigate what happened she starts to dig deep but uncovers far more than she bargained for.

Sara is one of those characters who will polarise opinion, she is tenacious, headstrong, fearless but makes some incredibly silly and bewildering decisions. Like all of the best characters she is flawed and for that I enjoyed her arc and reading about her background and life. Skördeman uses her to propel the plot forward whilst showing us a slice of Swedish life which supplies colour against a quite fact heavy narrative

Her daughter, Ebba, is about to graduate from school and is in the midst of the traditions and parties which accompany this period. For Sara, her daughter being on the cusp of adulthood with her whole life ahead of her, reminds her that she is in her mid-life and causes her to reflect on both her marriage and her success as a parent. Work has always come first for her and there seems to be some distance between her and her family and there is somewhat of a disconnect. I’m unsure whether this is intended or if it is perhaps the translation which creates this sense of being on the outside looking in, but it is interesting to read a book from this perspective as usually it is a male detective whose home life is on shaky ground.

Skördeman has created a detailed and intensively researched novel which is at times is pacy and twisty. The beginning and ending in particular are fantastic but, at times it got a little bogged down in imparting 50 years of European history and the pacing in the middle section did suffer a little for it. It is worth persevering though, as there is a really great story at its heart which is genuinely surprising in parts. I will warn readers though that it is a quite dark and very uncomfortable read at times and went places I did not expect.

I found Geiger an enjoyable read at times, enjoying the espionage, spies and investigation. It is unusual and provides a different slant to books of this ilk, concentrating as it does on spies in their eighties. You do need your wits about you though, there is a lot of information and names/characters which took me a little while to get to grips with but once I did I was fully invested. Overall, this is a unique book which examines the long lasting effects of the Cold War in a very different way.

I was really looking forward to this book after reading the synopsis, but sadly for me, it went off into a very different direction to the exciting thriller I was expecting.

Geiger is one of those books I fell for because of the blurb. Alright, the cover is eye-catching, and the title intriguing, but the synopsis sold it to me, which is rare as I am very hard to please and very quick to judge when it comes to a book pitch!

“The landline rings” Ha. Do you have a landline? I don’t. I think there’s a cord I can plug to my Internet box for that but I never tried. Whenever I have to call customer services for a problem with my Internet, I have to look for the landline/Internet phone number… Back to the story! Geiger really starts as a regular story. Grandparents have been taking care of their children. Now their parents are back from holiday and ready to bring their offspring back home. A ring in the house disrupts the familiar scene. I liked that the plot hit the ground running. No time for questions as Agneta, sweet grandmother and devoted wife, goes upstairs to grab a gun and shoots her beloved husband. How’s that for a shock? Even if I knew what was coming, I was startled and befuddled. Why? How? WHY?

From there, Geiger took a turn I was not expecting. Well, to be honest, I had no idea what I was getting into! Politics, old files, memories, spies, international issues… Geiger has multiple layers forming a complex plot. Most parts kept me interested. I needed answers. You don’t start eating a surprise pastry just to stop midway, do you?

I never truly warmed to the characters. Sara, family friend and police officer not officially on the case, felt extremely cold and arrogant. Other protagonists also failed to give me enough to connect to them, but I enjoyed the web of double-crossings and the many questions raised around them.

There is quite a good amount of history in the novel to put things into context, which somehow slowed the pace a little, giving the investigations a different edge than what you encounter in other novels from the genre.

The typical tone of nordic noir can be felt throughout the book, which should please avid readers of novels from the cold countries!

Elongated, mysterious and rip-roaring. Set in Sweden the story of a government conspiracy involving celebrities/politicians and illicit child abuse leads to a labyrinthe story being told. Very well translated which whips up the drama and action in equal measure

A good read although not sure comparing it to ‘I am pilgrim’ helps as this sets the bar very very high
Full of intrigue,it can get complex and sometimes felt like it went ‘on a bit’ but for a reader who enjoys political,spyish books this is ideal,a book to be immersed in

Well, the synopsis for Geiger is definitely intriguing, well I thought so, it also makes for a very good start to this story.

This is a really good and well-plotted spy thriller that I really enjoyed. There is a blend of past and present that the author links together really well and is full of little subplots. The present is about the death of Stellan, and of his missing wife as well as the character of Sara a police officer with connections to the family. The past is more in the eighties with the fall of the Berlin Wall, German reunifications, USSR, GDR, spies, espionage, theories, politics and various other items of the time.

The mix of historical into this story was the part that I probably enjoyed the most, the cloak and dagger spy stuff if you like. But then I also liked the present story with a more procedural presence to it as you would find in a crime thriller. The idea of having a historical aspect in the story is great as it does add a great amount of intrigue. There is a good amount of detail that emerges as part of the story, this does however slow the pace down. I do like a slower paced book, and it meant I could take my time and not feel rushed while I was reading. I was able to read with the flow of the story and absorb the many details.

The author has a good mix of characters, enough for the different parts of the story and the different subplots, but not too many that I lost track of who was who. I did mention that there is a whole range of different things going on in this story, one of the themes is quite a distressing one and one I didn't expect. While it is part of the story, it doesn't make for pleasant reading.

A story that starts with a murder that then develops into a central European espionage ring, with mentions of family, upbringing and lifestyle there is a lot going on. A really intriguing and interesting read that had me wondering who was who and why they did what they did. I would recommend this for readers who prefer a slower-paced and intense spy-thriller story.

I am afraid I really struggled with this book. I found it too slow, not something I was expecting after reading the blurb. Maybe some thing was lost in translation for me, but I just didn't connect with it.

Uncovering the reason why Agneta shoots her husband is entertaining, but I struggled with the rest of it.
However, if you enjoy history and politics along with spies and murder mysteries then this will be perfect for you.

Whilst I did enjoy the spy element of this book including who was involved, who was double-crossing, and who did what, I felt that only made up about half of the story. There were also some good twists and turns along the way and I didn't see the end ones coming which was a bonus - though I wish I'd know it was going to be a series.

There is a lot of detail on history (the cold war) and politics (including many, many names) which slowed the flow down for me. Additionally I think there have been some mistakes in the translation here and there, so some sentences didn't always make sense. The main character Sara also makes some odd decisions and I can't say I ever warmed to her - or any of the other characters.

Also a warning - there are a lot of descriptions of rape (including of underage girls).

Geiger is a nordic noir spy thriller and I loved it. The main protagonist is a burnt out cop with an axe to grind and her personal ties to the case made this an absorbing read and her a fascinating character. It was fast paced with multiple characters but all of their own story lines were well written and I didn't feel overwhelmed by the amount of information or confused at any point. My only criticism was that the ending was abrupt and I wanted to read more about the characters (Sarah in particular)!

*Trigger warning* if you are triggered by sexual abuse/assault then please be aware that this is a theme within the novel.

A modern political thriller about old agents from the cold war era. This was a little confusing in parts, but only because I don't really know enough about Sweden's position in the cold War. I had to stop every now and then to look things up and work out whether they were a real backdrop or a fantasy. Fast paced and exciting but main character is not hugely likeable.

This is the first novel I have read by this author and it is outside my normal reading genre but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I was drawn to it because of the blurb:

The landline rings as she is waving off her grandchildren.
Just one word comes out of the receiver: 'Geiger'.
For decades, she has known that this moment would come. She knows what it means.
Retrieving her weapon from its hiding place, she attaches the silencer and creeps up behind her husband of 50 years before pressing the barrel to his temple. She squeezes the trigger . . .

It did not disappoint. Well written with twists and turns all the way through, but not for those who are faint hearted.

Sara, is the main character and is strong and decisive. The plot moves from spy story to child exploitation and takes the reader along with cleverly planned intertwining storylines from the present and past. What a great read packing an amazing punch.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Bonnier Books UK, Zaffre and Gustaf Skordeman for my ARC of Geiger in return for my honest review.

Highly recommended