The brutal killing turns out to be only the first in a series of gruesome crimes, strung together in a case which involves Saga Norén of the Malmo police personally, and which will change her forever.
5.50pm: Furyk is following Harrington's lead and settling down after a string of gruesome birdies.
Spooky new girl Cole's arrival coincides with a string of gruesome murders – coincidence, or something more generically predictable?
During a search for a runaway girl, he discovers a string of gruesome murders seemingly connected to an investigation she headed several years earlier.
Tom Rob Smith's thriller about a Soviet secret policeman gets a screen makeover with Tom Hardy as Leo Demidov, charged with investigating a string of gruesome child murders.
The movie "disintegrates into a string of gruesome shootouts, punctuated by interludes in the sleazy Martian hangouts that make this kiddie-minded film unsuitable for small children," Janet Maslin wrote in The Times in 1990.
Cronenberg, one of Fangoria's idols, was coming off an impressive string of gruesome and peculiar horror flicks, including "They Came from Within" (sexually transmitted parasites take over a condo complex) and "The Brood" (disturbed woman "manifests" mini demon-children in a cautionary tale about attachment parenting).
In the days that follow, a string of gruesome murders will take place in the British advertising industry; the eyes removed from the victims, and....this detail kept from the general public, daubed in their own blood and entrails, the phrase "Should Have Gone to Specsavers".
Many of the sleazeball criminals and right-wing nut cases who fill out the novel's cast of characters are interchangeable thugs, knocking off victims and one another in a string of gruesome hit jobs that include scalpings, torture and mutilation.
