A young woman jumps in her car and flees to the only safe haven she knows: the island of Gråskär off the coast of Fjällbacka ... Meanwhile, Detective Patrik Hedström begins an investigation into the murder of a man in his home.The victim, Mats Sverin, the council's financial director. But when Patrik and his team start digging into the dead man's life, all they can uncover is unanswered questions.Why was Mats in such a rush to return to his home town of Fjällbacka? And is it coincidence that Mats's childhood sweetheart also suddenly returned to the area?
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780007573684
- File size: 421597 KB
- Duration: 14:38:19
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- English
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Starred review from August 1, 2016
Läckberg, Sweden’s bestselling “queen of crime,” explores near-unspeakable grief in her stunning seventh novel set in the town of Fjällbacka (after 2015’s The Drowning). Several mothers suffer in body and soul after losing their sons, in contrast to the happiness that detective Patrik Hedström and his wife, Erica, a true-crime writer, enjoy with their twin infant boys. Patrik is investigating the murder of Mats Sverin, the town’s finance officer, who was involved with the restoration of a dilapidated old luxury hotel as a ritzy spa, a man many people liked but no one really knew. With her trademark impeccable psychological insight, Läckberg intertwines subplots that personalize the devastation wreaked by Sweden’s drug trade, its biker culture, and its far too prevalent domestic abuse. Ghostly shadows from this searing entry will surely linger long in the reader’s imagination. Agent: Joakim Hansson, Nordin Literary Agency (Sweden). -
Simon Vance is in his element voicing this complicated Swedish police drama, which includes a portrait of a whole interconnected society familiar to readers of Lackberg's very popular earlier audiobooks. Lackberg's elaborate multilayered plot shifts scenes suddenly and often. Vance doesn't always make these jump cuts clear, and while his distinctions between male and female, young and old, are very good and very entertaining, it's less easy to tell apart individuals within these categories (this old man from that one.) This only matters because there are so many characters, and it doesn't matter much. It's a story and a performance that very much rewards attention; you care about these people and what is happening to them and the wrap-up is satisfying and not too tidy. B.G. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine
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