by Johan Theorin · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552774635
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«Echoes from the Dead» is the mystery and crime novel by Johan Theorin, published by Black Swan in paperback (480 pages, in English).
Twenty years after the disappearance of her five-year-old son on the Swedish island of Öland, Julia Davidsson still has no answers. When a shoe belonging to the boy arrives by post to her father, a retired captain, both reconstruct the past. The clues point to Nils Kant, a cruel man who died in the 1960s, but a stranger roams the fields. Someone wants to stop Julia's search and is very close.
First instalment of the Oland Quartet series. Translated from Swedish by Marlaine Delargy (original title: «Skumtimmen»). Winner of the CWA award for best first novel of 2009.
For readers of Nordic noir, Scandinavian suspense and followers of Stieg Larsson.
Johan Theorin is a Swedish journalist and author. Throughout his life, Johan Theorin has been a regular visitor to the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea. His mother’s family—sailors, fishermen and stone cutters—have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island’s legacy of supernatural tales and folklore.
