Oland Quartet Echoes from the Dead, Book 1, (Paperback)

from elkiedee

More than twenty years ago, Julia's 5 year old son Jens went missing and was never found. They were on holiday visiting her parents. She doesn't know what happened to him, and is now depressed, living on sickness benefits and drinking too much wine. Then her father, Gerlof, rings for the first ti...

from LiteraryFeline

I had heard such great things about this book and really wanted to love it. I found it got off to quite the slow pace, however. I did enjoy it once I got into it though and am glad I stayed with it. I especially liked the way the author brought the setting to life on the pages. I felt like I was ...

from PirateJenny

A young boy goes missing in 1972, on a horribly foggy day, and is thought to have drowned in the nearby lake though his mother swears he was terrified of the water. His body is never found. Years later, his grandfather is sent a sandal that looks remarkably like Jens's. Is it possible that the lo...

from Xirxe

Ach menno, manchmal denke ich wirklich, man sollte Klappentexte verbieten, soviel Unsinn wie da verzapft wird. 'Eine feine Mischung aus Krimi und Gespensterroman. Zum Gruseln gut.' meint die Für Sie über das erste Buch 'Öland' von Johan Theorin. Wetten, dass wer immer dies auch geschrieben hat, l...

from austcrimefiction

This book is just classic Swedish / Scandinavian crime fiction. Slow, involved, intricate, revealing and complex, ECHOES FROM THE DEAD concentrates very much on Julia, and her father, and their slow and careful repairing of a relationship which was torn apart at the time that Julia's son disappea...