Fatal Gambit

Its place in Rekke and Vargas

Fatal Gambit is book 2 in the Rekke and Vargas series. It follows Dark Music. It is followed by Post Mortem. See the full Rekke and Vargas reading order.

Hans Rekke is a brilliant, erratic professor of interrogation psychology -- a world authority on reading suspects and detecting lies, and prone to breakdowns and self-destructive behaviour off the clock. Micaela Vargas is a young Stockholm police detective from a rough immigrant background, sharp and instinctive but boxed out of the cases she wants by department politics. When their paths cross on a case neither can solve alone, David Lagercrantz pairs them into a deliberately Holmes-and-Watson-inflected duo…