Synopses & Reviews
No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's new psychological thriller — irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.
Detective Patrik Hedstrom is no stranger to tragedy. A murder case concerning Fjallbacka's dead financial director, Mats Sverin, is a grim but useful distraction from his recent family misfortunes.
It seems Mats was a man who everybody liked yet nobody really knew — a man with something to hide...
His high school sweetheart, Nathalie, has just returned to the area with her five-year-old son — could she shed light on who Mats really was?
However, Nathalie has her own secret. If it's discovered, she will lose her only child. As the investigation stalls, the police have many questions. But there is only one that matters.
Is there anything a mother would not do to protect her child?
About the Author
Born in 1971, Camilla Läckberg lives in a suburb of Stockholm, with her three children.
After graduating from Gothenburg University of Economics, she moved to Stockholm where she worked for a few years as an economist. However, a course in creative crime writing became the trigger to a drastic change of career. The same week her son was born in August 2002, her first novel
Isprinsessan, (
The Ice Princess) was accepted for publication. The next book,
Predikanten, (
The Preacher) was released in June 2004 and after that it was
Stenhuggaren, (
The Stonecutter) then
Olycksfageln, (
The Jinx),
Tyskungen (
The German Child),
Sjöjungfrun (
The Mermaid) and her most recent
Fyrvaktaren (
The Lighthouse Keeper). Fjällbacka is the scene for all the novels where she has used the existing police station in Tanumshede and put her own police force in it.
Her hobbies are cooking — she's written a cookbook with a chef called
Flavours from Fjällbacka" — and spending time with friends.
Steven T. Murray was born in 1943 in Berkeley, California and is an American translator of Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and German. He has translated novels by the bestselling Swedish writers Karin Alvtegen and Henning Mankell, in 2001 winning the CWA Gold Dagger Award in the UK for Sidetracked.
He was also editor-in-chief of Fjord Press from 1981 to 2001, which published mainly Scandinavian fiction in translation. He now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife Tiina Nunnally.