Studio Sex
An Annika Bengtzon Thriller
Chapter One
Author's Note
Sweden is an odd little country close to the north pole. There are fewer than
nine million of my fellow Swedes. We experience one of the world's highest
standards of living, we live longer than people anywhere else, and we enjoy the
greatest gender equality of any country in the world. Nonetheless, our suicide
rate is high, we're way up near the top in the taxpaying league table, and men
still beat their women to death regularly.
This is the place where my novels are set. It's a society full of
contradictions. It is strange and very ordinary at one and the same time. Since
1932, Sweden has been run almost continually by the Social Democratic Worker's
Party. (The liberals and conservatives have ruled in short terms for a total of
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