A Wreath for the Bride

On the eve of what would have been the wedding of the year, Anneli Hammar, the beautiful and happy bride-to-be, vanished. One moment she was waving to a friend on her way to inspect her bridal bouquet; the next she was gone, as if the earth had swallowed her up.

Had she disappeared of her own free will? Alone, or with an unknown lover? Was she, dead or alive?

A nightmare of suspicions follows, questions with no answers - and at the center of a tangled web of lies stands the mysterious and wealthy man that was to have been Anneli's husband. Chief inspector Christer Wick of the Stockholm Crime Squad investigates and in what turns out to be a double murder case the fragrant lily-of-the-valley bouquet is a tantalizing and vital clue.

A WREATH FOR THE BRIDE is a classic murder mystery from the Queen of Swedish crime writing which has inspired a new television series, Crimes of Passion.