There's another person interested in the Schwarz case as well - a man who has lived an empty and tormented life after missing the retribution he had waited on for years. Ewert Grens is very interested in the case, interested in seeking justice at first because he knows all too well what may lay ahead for someone suffering injuries to the brain, but later because of the sad and frustrating circumstances surrounding the events that he had unwittingly set into motion. But there's a slight problem: John Meyer Frey died some years ago, while awaiting his execution on Death Row at a prison in Ohio. When they finally have him at the station, he refuses to talk, but ultimately, routine identification procedures identify him as John Meyer Frey, an American citizen using a Canadian passport.

He manages to avoid them and to get back to his apartment and his wife, and he knows it's only a matter of time before the police catch up to him. Security is called the Stockholm cops are there to meet him as the ferry docks in Stockholm. Thinking about the two women in his life (one from an earlier time, one his wife), he sees red, loses his temper, and before he knows it, he's beating up the passenger, ending with kicks to his head, landing the guy in the hospital. He is employed as a band singer on the Åbo ferry between Stockholm and Finland, and one night while he's at work, in the middle of a song, he sees a drunk passenger give some unwanted attention to a young woman on the dance floor. John Schwarz is a family man, living with his wife and young son in Stockholm.

for another, the subject matter is extremely controversial, and will keep crime-fiction readers debating the main issue for a long while, especially here in America.

For one thing, a great deal of the action takes place in the U.S. Sliding in between the Roslund-Hellstrom writing duo's Box 21 and their award-winning Three Seconds at number three in the Ewert Grens series, Cell 8 is by far much different than anything else these authors have yet produced. Originally published as Edward Finnigans Upprättelse, 2006

Cell 8 by Anders Roslund