Rainn Wilson (The Office) has been cast to play Evert Backstrom in Backstrom, a television pilot for CBS, based on a character created by Swedish crime novelist Leif G. W. Persson. Bones creator Hart Hanson will write and executive produce.
Stockholm police inspector Evert Bäckström was introduced in 2005 in Linda … som i Lindamordet (Linda … as in the Linda Murder), the first English translation of which was published last month in the UK. We don't have a US publication date, yet.
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Linda, as in the Linda Murder
Leif G. W. Persson
An Evert Bäckström Mystery
In the middle of an unusually hot Swedish summer, a young woman studying at the Vaxjo Police Academy is brutally murdered. Police Inspector Evert Backstrom is unwillingly drafted in from Stockholm to head up the investigation.
Egotistical, vain and utterly prejudiced against everything, Bäckström is a man who has no sense of duty or responsibilty, thinks everyone with the exception of himself is an imbecile and is only really capable of warm feelings towards his pet goldfish and the nearest bottle of liquor. If they are to solve the case, his long suffering team must work around him, following the scant few leads which remain after Backstrom's intransigence has let the trail go cold.
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