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New Swedish Books 64 The Unlikely Murderer The bo
ok that closed the Palme case. For 34 years the unresolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme has haunted an entire nation – not to say the world. After 12 years of research, resulting in the book The Unlikely Murderer, journalist Thomas Pettersson has brought the case to a close. In 2017 his findings prompted the police to reexamine the suspect Stig Engström and they were instrumental in the judicial closure of the investigation in June 2020. In The Unlikely Murderer Thomas Pettersson presents a number of previously unknown facts in the Palme murder investigation. It is a sensational, enthralling and alarming book that shines light on the many mistakes and missteps made during a criminal investigation that lasted for over three decades. On June 10th, 2020, Chief Prosecutor Krister Petersson presented the evidence for Stig Engström being “suspected on reasonable grounds” of committing the murder of Olof Palme. This evidence followed, to the letter, the material presented a few years earlier in The Unlikely Murderer. Thomas Pettersson The jury: A meticulous depiction, with journalistic drive, of everything, or at least most of it, that happened after the murder of Olof Palme. Crime Journalism, 256 p. Thomas Pettersson Publisher Offside Press Rights Grand Agency Lena Stjernström lena@grandagency.se Rights sold to Finland/Otava USA/TBA Film Rights: Sweden/FLX Photo: Henrik Brunnsgård