Echoes from the Dead

Author(s): Johan Theorin

Crime

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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Voted Sweden's Best First Crime Novel by the Academy of Crime, and an international bestseller: a haunting debut crime novel about a missing child.

Winner of CWA New Blood Dagger 2009.

Echoes from the Dead (originally published in Sweden as Skumtimmen) is Johan's first novel. In 2007, it was voted Best First Crime Novel by the Swedish Academy of Crime, was a Top Ten bestseller, and has been sold all over the world. His second novel, The Darkest Room (originally published as Nattfak) was voted the Best Swedish Crime Novel of 2008 and also won the Glass Key for Best Nordic Crime Novel. A journalist by profession, Johan is currently working on the third novel in his Oland quartet of books, all of which are set on the island which means so much to him.

General Fields

  • : 9780552774635
  • : Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • : Black Swan
  • : 0.319
  • : July 2009
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Adventure / thriller
  • : 480
  • : 839.738
  • : en
  • : 9-Sep
  • : Paperback
  • : Johan Theorin