Clinch

THE FIRST THRILLER IN THE STOCKHOLM TRILOGY

'A dark, atmospheric, powerful thriller, the best debut novel I've read in years' Lynda La Plante

'Ferociously noir... If Chandler and Hammett had really walked on the wild side, it would read like this' Val McDermid

The writing's on the wall for Harry Kvist. Once a notorious boxer, he now spends his days drinking, and his nights as an enforcer on the streets of 1930s Stockholm a city where the rich rule and the poor freeze. But one biting winter's night he's sent to collect from a debtor named Zetterberg, and when the man is found dead shortly afterwards, all eyes are on Kvist.

Kvist's struggle to clear his name will lead him from the city's criminal underworld to its opulent elite. It will bring him face to face with bootleggers and whores, aristocrats and murderers, and force him to confront his own darkness. It will be the biggest fight of his life.

Blending noir with gritty violence, Clinch is a visceral, compulsive thriller that packs a punch and leaves you reeling.

What readers have to say about The Stockholm Trilogy

'Harry Kvist is a great character... Swedish noir? Yes, please' - Goodreads reviewer

'F**k me. This was amazing' - Goodreads reviewer

'Scandinavian noir at its best. More please!' - Amazon reviewer

'Loved it' - Amazon reviewer

'I cannot wait to read the further adventures of Harry Kvist' - Amazon reviewer

THE STOCKHOLM TRILOGY CONTINUES WITH DOWN FOR THE COUNT



Born in 1974, Martin Holmén studied history, and now teaches at a Stockholm secondary school. Clinch is his first novel, and the first instalment in the planned trilogy about Kvist: Out for the Count and Slugger will also be published by Pushkin Vertigo.