The Black Path (novel)

The Black Path (Swedish: Svart stig, 2006) is a crime novel by Swedish writer Åsa Larsson, the third in the Rebecka Martinsson series.[1] It was published in the US in 2008 in paperback by Bantam Dell, and in the UK in 2012 in hardcover by MacLehose Press.

The Black Path

First edition (Swedish)
Author	Åsa Larsson
Original title	Svart stig
Translator	Marlaine Delargy
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish
Series	Rebecka Martinsson, #3
Genre	crime fiction
Publisher	Albert Bonniers förlag (Swedish) Bantam Dell (English)
Publication date	August 2006
Published in English	2008
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	423p. (Swedish) 384p. (English)
ISBN	9789100115906 (Swedish) 9780385341011 (English)
Preceded by	The Blood Spilt
Followed by	Until Thy Wrath be Past

Irene Scobbie of Swedish Book Review states that the strength of the work is in the character portrayal and in the "authentic Lapland setting". She believes that several of the native Lapland characters have "an almost exotic flavour: an old woman with clairvoyant qualities, two peasant women with artistic gifts, and Killis’s young half-sister who embodies all these qualities and (less convincing in the final stages) becomes a kind of Pippi Longstocking figure as she takes on her half-brother’s enemies".[1]