The Darkest Room (The Öland Quartet #2)
by:
Johan Theorin (author)
WINNER OF SWEDEN’S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARDOn the idyllic island of Öland, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of love, as they slowly bring the sprawling...
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WINNER OF SWEDEN’S BEST CRIME NOVEL AWARDOn the idyllic island of Öland, off the coast of northern Sweden, a young couple from Stockholm tries to start life afresh. For Joakim and Katrine Westin, reclaiming a long-neglected family manor will be a labor of love, as they slowly bring the sprawling home back to life and introduce their two children to the island’s woodlands, glens, and beaches. But in the Westins’ new home, there are things that cannot be repaired, lives that have gone wrong, and secrets that have followed them. When the family is struck by tragedy, it’s up to grief-stricken Joakim to put together a puzzle of inexplicable loss, unbearable suspicion, and tangled lives. In this powerhouse of suspense–at once a crime novel and a searing family drama–a home built as a shelter from the sea becomes a human storm of murder.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385342223 (0385342225)
ASIN: 385342225
Publish date: September 29th 2009
Publisher: Delta
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Horror,
Suspense,
Scandinavian Literature,
Supernatural,
Sweden,
Swedish Literature
Series: The Öland Quartet (#2)
Joakim and Katrine decide to move to a manor near the shore of Öland. There have been a number of strange deaths ever since the house was build using salvage wood from a wrecked ship. I don't really know what to think of this story. I liked his first book better, I guess. I'm not really into ghost s...
When I had read Echoes from the Dead, I was not really expecting a taut thriller, with a sad and believable protagonist and a plot which racing between two time periods and an unlikely outcome, a twist in the very last pages. It kept me hooked up to the last page. I made the mistake of underestimati...
bookshelves: translation, one-penny-wonder, mystery-thriller, winter-20102011, sweden, boo-scary, published-2008 Read from January 20 to February 15, 2011 Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine DelargyWINTER 1846This is where my book begins. It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Ol...
I don't read crime/mystery or ghost stories, but heck I loved the way the sample pulled me back to Sweden. Variation is good!
Scandinavian literature is getting more and more popular. It's not a surprise if they write such good books like "The Darkest Room". The book tells a story of a family who moved on an island which is supposedly haunted by spirits of people who died there. This bad emotions of the island have a direc...