Rekke and Vargas · Book 3

Post Mortem

by David Lagercrantz

Published
27 August 2026
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9781529413281
Type
novel

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Cover of Post Mortem

About this book

Post Mortem is the third book in David Lagercrantz's Rekke and Vargas series, translated into English by Ian Giles. Due for publication in August 2026 at 320 pages, it follows Fatal Gambit as the latest entry in this ongoing series.

Its place in Rekke and Vargas

Post Mortem is book 3 in the Rekke and Vargas series. It follows Fatal Gambit. 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…

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