Andrew Hankinson

Murder in the dark: The Eighth House, by Linda Segtnan, reviewed

Motherhood prompts Segtnan to research the cold case of Birgitta Sivander, a nine-year-old found murdered in a Swedish forest in 1948

A newspaper photograph of Birgitta Sivander that appeared after her murder in 1948.
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  • The Eighth House: A Murder, a Mother, a Haunting

    Linda Segtnan, translated by Elizabeth Clark Wessel

    Ithaka Press, pp. 304, £20

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