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The Mountain King

A Novel

by Anders de la Motte

Narrator Cassandra Campbell

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Length 14 hours 27 minutes

Language English

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“Leonore (Leo) Asker, faces the typical harassment and misogyny of many women in the police force, but unlike most other women, she was trained by her prepper father to be prepared for anything. When a prominent woman goes missing, an old adversary of Leo’s manages to get the powers that be to bring him back to his old dept. and put him in charge of the case. Leo is supposedly given a promotion to department head, but the department is in the basement and one that Leo didn’t even know existed. It is The Dept. of Lost Souls and seems to be full of misfits and embarrassments the department wants hidden away and who have no real cases to work on. Leo is sure that everyone thinks she will get tired of exile and quit but instead she does what she does best – she finds clues, she takes advantage of the secrecy of the Dept. of Lost Souls and Causes to break a lot of rules and she uses the misfits to help conduct her own investigation. This is book 1 of the Asker series and I can’t wait to see how Leo’s training by her prepper father helps her in her next case.”
— Nancy • Fiction Addiction

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About the author

This atmospheric and sinister mystery will have you “hooked from the very first page” (Kyle Mills, #1 New York Times bestselling author) as it follows a brilliant female detective investigating the darkest side of humanity.

Detective Leonore Asker seems to have the leading position at Malmö’s Major Crime Division within reach. But things go awry when, in the middle of a high profile kidnapping case, management relegates her to the so-called Department of Lost Souls—the unit for odd, cold cases banished to the basement of the police station.

Despite the humiliation, Asker is drawn into one of the more peculiar cases. Someone is secretly placing small ominous figures in a huge model train displays and one of the figures seems to represent the missing woman from the kidnapping case. As Asker’s investigation leads her into the world of the abandoned and forgotten, she reaches out to her old friend and urban explorer Martin Hill. Together they discover that an unusual kind of evil lurks—at the heart of a mountain, deep down in the darkness.

“Absorbing, deftly plotted, bone-chilling” (Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author), The Mountain King will twist its way under your skin.

Fiction Mystery & Thriller

Anders de la Motte, a former police officer, made his debut in 2010 with the award-winning thriller Game and has since then been one of Sweden’s most beloved and popular crime writers. He is the author of several acclaimed and bestselling crime fiction series, among them the suspenseful Skåne Quartet. Published in 2022, The Mountain King is the first bestselling installment in his new Leo Asker series.