The Corpses We Planted

Jolly and Peggy lose their parents and are placed with a foster family in a village deep in the darkest part of Skåne, where abusers of children live among the neighbours. The place draws out people's best and worst sides; it is thick with myths and facts, lively and doomed, and a double murder that was never solved still weighs on everyone. Peggy escapes into books and dreams of studying in Lund. Jolly is left to make sense of their childhood: the ghost of a woman writer, violence that seems to rise from the earth, the foster family's standing in the village, the many killings, and the disgrace of coming from a cursed place.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

287 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Sweden

First published

2025 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

52 when first published

ISBN

9789100191566 (original)

9780241841297 (Hamish Hamilton, United Kingdom)

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