The Bucket List

by Peter Mohlin, Peter Nystrom Narrated by Dion Graham

Overview

The Bucket List, the award-winning debut novel by writing team Peter Mohlin and Peter Nyström, launches a gripping new Nordic noir series featuring Swedish American FBI agent John Adderley.
When undercover FBI agent John Adderley wakes up in the hospital in Baltimore with gunshot wounds, he knows he's lucky to be alive. In the bed next to him is the man who, the night before, had pointed a gun to John's head after his cover was blown with the drug
cartel he'd infiltrated.
Ten years earlier, in Karlstad, Sweden, rebellious teenager and sole heiress of the AckWe clothing empire Emilie Bjurwall is missing. The police find forensic evidence near the family's lavish home that suggests a sex crime, and a boy from the poorer part of town is
questioned. Another clue, from a Facebook photo, is an odd tattoo of three boxes-two with tattooed check marks and the third with a tick carved directly into the girl's skin-Emilie's bucket list. Emilie is never found.
While recovering in the hospital, John receives a letter from his estranged mother in Sweden pleading for his help: a famous cold case involving the Bjurwall heiress has been reopened, and his half-brother is the suspect. After testifying at the cartel's trial, John
requests Sweden for witness protection despite the risk to his life-he has a connection to the place, as he was raised there. As stirrings of an old familial duty converge with the intriguing details of Emilie's unsolved disappearance, Agent John Adderley finds himself in
Sweden, with a new identity and a police detective job-dangerously close to the stillbeating heart of the Bjurwall cold case and his own complex family history.

Editorial Reviews

SEPTEMBER 2021 - AudioFile

Narrator Dion Graham has a velvet voice and is particularly skillful with noir drama. His protagonist is John Adderly, a half-Swedish Black FBI agent now in the Witness Protection Program. Tricky, voicing the family accents. Adderly, threatened by a violent international drug ring he helped bust, should have chosen to relocate somewhere he had no history, but he demands Sweden, where his feckless mother is dying, and where the prime suspect in a ten-year-old murder case he’ll be assigned to is his half brother. Regrettably, Graham adopts a stutter-step speech pattern that does nothing to serve the text, but the double plot—will Adderly solve the cold case and clear his brother, or will the drug lords find him first—is gripping. B.G. 2022 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

SEPTEMBER 2021 - AudioFile

Narrator Dion Graham has a velvet voice and is particularly skillful with noir drama. His protagonist is John Adderly, a half-Swedish Black FBI agent now in the Witness Protection Program. Tricky, voicing the family accents. Adderly, threatened by a violent international drug ring he helped bust, should have chosen to relocate somewhere he had no history, but he demands Sweden, where his feckless mother is dying, and where the prime suspect in a ten-year-old murder case he’ll be assigned to is his half brother. Regrettably, Graham adopts a stutter-step speech pattern that does nothing to serve the text, but the double plot—will Adderly solve the cold case and clear his brother, or will the drug lords find him first—is gripping. B.G. 2022 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

Product Details

BN ID:	2940172832987
Publisher:	Recorded Books, LLC
Publication date:	07/06/2021
Series:	Agent John Adderley , #1
Edition description:	Unabridged

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