To Catch an Angel – new novel 2010

”It was as if his touch filled her with beautiful poison which made her forget children, husband, career and tomorrow.”

To Catch an Angel is a relationship novel about passion and loyalty, a destiny drama about a young man stabbed to death, a highly topical portrait of the segregated Stockholm – Håkan Östlundh’s latest novel doesn’t leave anyone unmoved.

Paul Bäckström, a recently divorced police in the Stockholm suburb Sollentuna, is drawn into a passionate relationship with the married publisher Ylva Ström. On the surface the two seem to have nothing in common. And maybe they don’t. Still, Ylva throws herself into a taxi to get to Sollentuna as often as she can make up a decent lie to her husband. The forbidden love keeps both Ylva and Paul alive.

But reality moves in closer. Paul is investigating a teenage murder which gets a lot of attention in the media and is caught between old friendships and new loyalties when he is involved in a too personal way. At the same time Ylva needs to make a number of hard decisions.

To Catch an Angel depicts strong feelings and differing worlds crashing in full speed.