Echoes from the Dead
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Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
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 ...
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385613620 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385613628 |
| Title | Echoes from the Dead |
| Author | Johan Theorin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Winner of CWA New Blood Dagger 2009 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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