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KULT

Stefan Malmström

A dark and gripping crime thriller inspired by shocking and tragic true events in the Church of Scientology.
When a four-year-old girl and her father are found dead in the Swedish city of Karlskrona, the police quickly conclude it was a murder-suicide, a tragedy requiring no further investigation.

But Luke Bergmann, a reformed criminal still haunted by his violent past, believes they are wrong. The dead man, Viktor, was his best friend, and Luke knows he would never commit such a horrific crime.

When more bodies turn up, Luke embarks alone on an investigation which reaches back through decades to his friend's involvement with a sinister cult - the Church of Scientology. And when Luke finds himself in a killer's sights, his search for the truth becomes the fight of his life.

For fans of TV series THE KILLING and THE BRIDGE, of Lars Kepler, Jo Nesbø, Ragnar Jónasson , Samuel Bjork, Will Dean, Camilla Läckberg and Jussi Adler-Olsen.

Stefan Malmström is a former news journalist who has worked for Sveriges Radio and Swedish TV4. Today he works as a consultant, lecturer and author. At a young age, Stefan was manipulated into the Church of Scientology in Hässleholm, a small town in southern Sweden. KULT, his first book, is based on his experiences in the cult. Stefan lives in Karlskrona in Sweden with his family.
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Published 2019-09-05 by Silvertail Books

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Stefan and KULT were featured in The Bookseller; Silvertail publisher Humfrey Hunter said: "Kult is both a brilliant crime thriller and an important insight into how the Church of Scientology has treated its members. ... Stefan used his own extraordinary experiences, along with one of the most darkly tragic episodes in Scientology's history, when writing Kult and did so bravely and with great skill and sensitivity. I cannot wait for readers to see the result. This is a high class crime thriller." Read more...