Lost Colony

<p><strong>Nordic Noir Comes to America</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Thirty years after the shocking and never-solved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme on a snowy street in Stockholm an activist priest is found gruesomely sacrificed on the altar of a Swedish-American church in Minneapolis. The church's immigrant janitor is also slain execution style. </p><p><br></p><p>The crime shocks Hennepin Island the church's time-forgotten riverfront neighborhood where Span Lokken a demoralized newspaperman and his improbable partner Maggie Lindberg the murdered clergyman's stylish young assistant join forces to search for the killers.  </p><p><br></p><p>The trail leads to the castle fortress of the island's reclusive kingpin Jonas Kron whose lost colony delusions hide a gripping international mystery that brings the story full circle. Along the way the curious bond between the unlikely detectives - Span and Maggie - only deepens as they seek to fill the empty spaces in their own lives.</p>