Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist [Paperback: Good]

Paperback in Good condition: Back cover has been bent; pen inscription on front page (519 pages)

Translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg

It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden.  The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing.  Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last - revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.

But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind.  A new girl has moved in next door - a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once.  There is something wrong with her, though, something odd.  And she only comes out at night....