The greatest of everything | Malin Pearson Guillet

"Greater than everything" a detective novel in the form of an action film, authored by Malin Persson Giolito, published in 2016. The novel received the Swedish Academy Award for Detective Novels as "Best Swedish Detective Novel of 2016," and also won the Glass Key Award. The novel deals with the tangled relationships of teenagers, from the upper class in Sweden, attending the fictional "Yoreholm" high school, through the inner monologue of the student Maya, who expresses the complexities of her relationship with five other students and a teacher. The high school is shaken by a shooting behind which several victims among the students fall, and Maya survives to be summoned by the court nine months after the bloody tragedy. The novel depicts the effects of class dominance, social stigma, and racism on Swedish society, in a romantic framework filled with suspense and excitement.