Malin Persson Giolito

The air is hazy and grey with gunpowder smoke. Everyone has been shot but me. I haven't got so much as a bruise...
There were six of them in the classroom, people who did not usually hang out together. Five were students, but they weren't sitting in neat rows that morning, listening intently to their tutor. No. Their normal day — indeed their lives — was about to be irrevocably destroyed...

Who were they? Why were they there, in that particular room at that particular time? And why, nine months later, is Maja Norberg standing in a courtroom, flanked by lawyers, reciting under her breath:
You are innocent until the courts have ruled that you are guilty...
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There could be two sides to Maja Norberg that shift silently like quicksand: the question is, which one do you believe?

Is Maja a normal 18-year-old, the poster girl next door, popular and excelling at her schoolwork, caught in the middle of a terrible tragedy? Or, is she the most reviled teenager in the country?

Either way, everyone knows her name. She has spent nine excruciating months in jail, awaiting trial for a mass murder that killed her boyfriend and her best friend, and now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom. What did she do? Or is it what she didn’t do that brought her here?

Is Maja a cold-blooded murderer or is she just a girl who has lost her way and, as a consequence, now lost the ones she loved?

April 6, 2017 by Simon & Schuster UK

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