MONICA REHN
MONICA REHN is an author and a lawyer with many years of experience as Head of Legal in the oil industry. In 2019 she made her literary debut with the suspense novel MORATORIUM. It was well-received by the critics and described as an unputdownable and breathtaking debut. Today, Monica has left central Stockholm for the more rural environment of the village Bålsta and devotes herself full time to writing.
In 2023, her second novel, the psychological thriller LIAR, was published by Polaris. It is set in Stockholm and follows a well-to-do, middle-aged author who is suddenly accused of a terrible crime. But who is the anonymous accuser and, most importantly, why is this person pointing their finger at him?
Monica Rehn draws inspiration from authors such as Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins, Patricia Highsmith, and A.J. Finn.
Agent William Crona
WORKS
THE LOVER
published POLARIS, July 2024
GENRE SUSPENSE
PAGES 376
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When the star lawyer Manfred Berg is shot dead in central Stockholm, the internet immediately fills with rumours. It’s said that Manfred was about to file for divorce and his wife, Julia, the gold digger who married into the wealthy Berg family, must be to blame for his death.
Julia fumbles to get her life together and at the funeral she meets Jack, a childhood friend of Manfred. Soon Jack becomes the safety net that both Julia and her two-year-old son Adam need. Together they escape from the stares and accusations in Stockholm and settle on Manfred's isolated family estate.
But everything changes when Jack's old friends Matti and Christine show up. Against Julia's wishes, they stay and take greater and greater liberties. When Jack suddenly leaves the estate, Julia realizes that she can't trust anyone. It slowly dawns on her that there has been a plan all along. A plan with fatal consequences.
THE LOVER is a dense psychological thriller about relationships and power games. Just like in the celebrated LIAR, Monica Rehn twists the concepts of guilt and innocence and holds the reader in an iron grip until the last page.
LIAR