Oland Quartet The Darkest Room, Book 2, (Paperback)

from bcquinnsmom

Joakim and Katrine Westin, along with their two small children, have decided to leave Stockholm to buy and renovate an old manor house at Eel Point on the island of Öland. Along with its two lighthouses, this area has a long history of shipwrecks and drownings, and it is said that the voices of t...

from cathyskye

First Line: Valter Brommesson is sitting in a little stone house at Eel Point, praying to God with his hands clasped together. Schoolteacher Joakim Westin has finally tied up all loose ends and has made the move from Stockholm to join his wife Katrine and their two small children in their new hom...

from lriley

It's gotten to the point, after only two novels that Sweden's Johan Theorin is IMO the new standard bearer of Scandinavian crime fiction. What stands out more than anything and despite whatever the genre he writes in is that he is an outstanding storyteller. In some respects he reminds of the lat...

from smik

THE DARKEST ROOM is set on the island of Oland of the east coast of Sweden. On the eastern side of Oland are the twin lighthouses of Eel Point, one giving off a red light at night, the other a white light that rarely seems to work. Near the lighthouses just inland is the manor house built 150 yea...

from lriley

It's gotten to the point, after only two novels that Sweden's Johan Theorin is IMO the new standard bearer of Scandinavian crime fiction. What stands out more than anything and despite whatever the genre he writes in is that he is an outstanding storyteller. In some respects he reminds of the lat...