Top Dog

A number one bestseller in Sweden, Jens Lapidus´s Top Dog is a thrilling, character-driven look at Stockholm´s drug-and-sex-fueled underworld. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. Emelie is a young lawyer who´s just started her own firm. Teddy is a reformed criminal looking for a fresh start. The first time they teamed up, in Stockholm Delete, they uncovered the secrets of a Swedish sex ring. Though their partnership proved rewarding--both professionally and personally--they haven´t seen each other since. But when a vulnerable young client of Emelie´s is murdered before she can testify against her abusers, Emelie turns to her ex-partner/lover for help. Meanwhile, Teddy´s nephew Nikolas has resolved not to repeat his uncle´s felonious mistakes. But the gang-related murder of his best friend sets him back on a trail of violent vengeance--and into the path of Roksana, a naïve hipster whose discovery of a drug cache is giving her a dangerous crash course in Stockholm´s dark side. And as Teddy and Emelie´s investigation heats up, police corruption threatens to land him back in prison--or both of them in body bags.