Echoes from the Dead

Echoes from the Dead

by JohanTheorin (Author)

Synopsis

Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that point inexorably to a local man called Nils Kant, known to delight in the pain of others. But Nils Kant died during the 1960s. So who is the stranger seen wandering across the fields as darkness falls? It soon becomes clear that someone wants to stop Julia's search for the truth. And that he's much, much closer than she thinks ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 30 Jun 2008

ISBN 10: 0385613628
ISBN 13: 9780385613620
Book Overview: Following in the footsteps of prize-winning authors Arnuldar Indridason and Henning Mankell, comes a chilling new voice in European crime.
Prizes: Winner of CWA New Blood Dagger 2009.

Author Bio
Throughout his life, Johan Theorin has been a regular visitor to the Baltic island of Oland. His mother's family - sailors, fishermen and farmers - have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island's rich legacy of strange tales and folklore. A journalist by profession, Johan now lives in Gothenburg. He is currently working on his second novel, and is planning a loose series of novels all set on Oland. Echoes from the Dead (originally published in Sweden as Skumtimmen) is Johan's first novel. In 2007 it was voted Best First Mystery Novel by the authors and critics of the Swedish Academy of Crime, and it has been translated into twelve languages.