Blood Cruise

Welcome aboard the Baltic Charisma. Tonight, twelve hundred expectant passengers have joined the booze-cruise between Sweden and Finland. The creaking old ship travels this same route, back and forth, every day of the year. But this trip is going to be different. In the middle of the night the ferry is suddenly cut off from the outside world. There is nowhere to escape. There is no way to contact the mainland. And no one knows who they can trust. . . On the Baltic Sea, no one can hear you scream.

Mats Strandberg, an award-winning writer of adult, YA and children’s fiction, was born in the small industrial town of Fagersta, in the middle of the Swedish forest; the place inspired Engelsfor, the setting for the internationally bestselling YA fantasy Engelfors Trilogy (with co-author Sara B. Elfgren). The Circle, Fire and The Key, are published in 30 countries, and ABBA founder Benny Andersson has turned the first book, The Circle, into a hit movie. Blood Cruise is his fourth solo novel. His award-winning journalism won him Columnist of the Year for his regular columns for Aftonbladet, Sweden’s biggest evening newspaper.