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epictetsocrate's review against another edition
3.0
Deocamdată marea era la reflux.
Luna plină făcuse marea şovăitoare să se retragă cu multe ore în urmă, expunând o fâşie lată de nisip umed. Crabi mici şi lucioşi mişunau pe nisip, sclipind în lumina albastră ca oţelul. Melcii turtiţi se agăţau cu deosebită forţă de stânci, aşteptând răbdători. Toate vieţuitoarele de pe ţărm ştiau că fluxul avea să le acopere din nou.
Trei siluete de pe plajă ştiau şi ele asta. Ştiau chiar cu exactitate când avea să se întâmple – peste un sfert de oră. Atunci primele valuri blânde aveau să se rostogolească şi să umezească zonele care se uscaseră, iar curând presiunea huruitului întunecat din larg avea să împingă val după val, până când inundaţia produsă de maree atingea punctul maxim.
O maree înaltă. Adică plaja urma să fie acoperită de apă adâncă de cincizeci de centimetri.
Dar încă mai aveau puţin timp. Groapa pe care o săpau era aproape gata. Mergea drept în pământ, preţ de aproape o sută cincizeci de centimetri, cu un diametru de vreo şaizeci. Un trup încăpea acolo perfect. Numai capul avea să iasă la suprafaţă.
Capul celei de-a patra siluete.
Capul unei femei care stătea la o oarecare distanţă, destul de liniştită, cu mâinile legate.
Părul ei lung şi închis la culoare flutura delicat în adierea intermitentă, trupul gol strălucea, chipul îi era estompat în lipsa machiajului. Ochii dezvăluiau o absenţă stranie. Se uita la cei ce săpau mai încolo pe ţărm. Bărbatul cu cazmaua trase lama curbată din groapă, răsturnă ultima grămăjoară de nisip peste mormanul de lângă el şi se întoarse.
Terminase.
Luna plină făcuse marea şovăitoare să se retragă cu multe ore în urmă, expunând o fâşie lată de nisip umed. Crabi mici şi lucioşi mişunau pe nisip, sclipind în lumina albastră ca oţelul. Melcii turtiţi se agăţau cu deosebită forţă de stânci, aşteptând răbdători. Toate vieţuitoarele de pe ţărm ştiau că fluxul avea să le acopere din nou.
Trei siluete de pe plajă ştiau şi ele asta. Ştiau chiar cu exactitate când avea să se întâmple – peste un sfert de oră. Atunci primele valuri blânde aveau să se rostogolească şi să umezească zonele care se uscaseră, iar curând presiunea huruitului întunecat din larg avea să împingă val după val, până când inundaţia produsă de maree atingea punctul maxim.
O maree înaltă. Adică plaja urma să fie acoperită de apă adâncă de cincizeci de centimetri.
Dar încă mai aveau puţin timp. Groapa pe care o săpau era aproape gata. Mergea drept în pământ, preţ de aproape o sută cincizeci de centimetri, cu un diametru de vreo şaizeci. Un trup încăpea acolo perfect. Numai capul avea să iasă la suprafaţă.
Capul celei de-a patra siluete.
Capul unei femei care stătea la o oarecare distanţă, destul de liniştită, cu mâinile legate.
Părul ei lung şi închis la culoare flutura delicat în adierea intermitentă, trupul gol strălucea, chipul îi era estompat în lipsa machiajului. Ochii dezvăluiau o absenţă stranie. Se uita la cei ce săpau mai încolo pe ţărm. Bărbatul cu cazmaua trase lama curbată din groapă, răsturnă ultima grămăjoară de nisip peste mormanul de lângă el şi se întoarse.
Terminase.
michella_boekenmiesje's review against another edition
4.0
Zoveel personages en namen dat ik pen en papier erbij heb gepakt.
Veel verhaallijnen die op zichzelf lijken te staan, maar die uiteindelijk samen komen tot één geheel.
Veel verhaallijnen die op zichzelf lijken te staan, maar die uiteindelijk samen komen tot één geheel.
emma0sweden's review against another edition
3.0
Jag plockade upp den för att den handlade om Koster och förväntade mig lite mer Koster i den. Men de sista två tredjedelarna av boken lästes ut på två sena nätter när jag borde gått och lagt mig. När trådarna började vävas samman och tempot ökade.
emhromp's review against another edition
4.0
fantastisch, zo spannend en complex. heb ook vazal gelachen om de heerlijk droge stijl van de schrijvers. aanrader! (staat deze zomer in de gratis zomerbieb app!)
lissan's review against another edition
5.0
Spring Tide was spoken of quite a lot in Sweden some years ago. It has a different set-up of characters from other novels, and this is the first in a series involving Olivia, a trainee at the police academy and Tom, a former police inspector, now home-less. Olivia is given a cold case to look at during the summer holidays. It concerns the murder of a woman in 1990 on an island on the west coast of Sweden. The case was never solved, and the identity of the woman was never found.
Olivia gets involved in the case, and starts her own investigation. At the same time people involved in the actions years ago are feeling nervous and unexpected things happen. It is a fascinating story, good characterisation and many side stories. In the beginning you don't know why they are there. They don't seem to have anything to do with the main case. But, as the story evolves it all comes together. It is exciting, scaring and you hear a lot of sounds around you, lying alone in the dark, reading! Huuh! The ending is unexpected to say the least.
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Olivia gets involved in the case, and starts her own investigation. At the same time people involved in the actions years ago are feeling nervous and unexpected things happen. It is a fascinating story, good characterisation and many side stories. In the beginning you don't know why they are there. They don't seem to have anything to do with the main case. But, as the story evolves it all comes together. It is exciting, scaring and you hear a lot of sounds around you, lying alone in the dark, reading! Huuh! The ending is unexpected to say the least.
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m_brnnk's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
itstoni4u's review against another edition
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
lillamyy's review against another edition
4.0
Olivia Rönning går på Polishögskolan och får i uppgift att skriva ett elevarbete om ett gammalt olöst mordfall. Hon börjar undersöka bevisen som finns och kommer upp med egna teorier. Men hon kan inte hitta Tom Stilton, mannen som Ledde utredningen. Han har helt försvunnit. Men hon kan inte sluta nu, hon bara måste hitta Stilton och få reda på sanningen.
Jag brukar inte gilla deckare så mycket, men denna var välskriven och bra. Gillade verkligen de olika karaktärerna som beskrevs på ett enkelt men samtidigt detaljrikt sätt. Flera intressanta originella personer. Gillade att kapitalen var skrivna på ett sätt som gjorde att spänningen höll sig kvar medans jag fick svar på små bitar i taget. Ett bra slut som jag inte riktigt hade väntat mig.
Jag brukar inte gilla deckare så mycket, men denna var välskriven och bra. Gillade verkligen de olika karaktärerna som beskrevs på ett enkelt men samtidigt detaljrikt sätt. Flera intressanta originella personer. Gillade att kapitalen var skrivna på ett sätt som gjorde att spänningen höll sig kvar medans jag fick svar på små bitar i taget. Ett bra slut som jag inte riktigt hade väntat mig.
raven88's review against another edition
5.0
Cilla and Rolf Borjlind are an established crime-writing partnership, with their television credits including the twenty-six Martin Beck films based on the hugely influential Sjowall/Wahloo books, the Swedish adaptation of Wallander and the Arne Dahl Intercrime series, recently broadcast on BBC4. So with this pedigree of screen-writing how did Spring Tide measure up?
Opening with the unsettling murder of a young pregnant woman at the time of the spring tide, twenty-four years previously and now designated as a cold case: a case which a young police trainee, Olivia Ronning, is designated as a summer project. The plot unfolds in a number of directions, bringing the reader into the world of contemporary Sweden and a series of brutal attacks on the homeless community, cold-bloodedly filmed and uploaded to social media sites, a series of attacks that the police are failing to solve. Slowly, the two cases become intertwined, as Olivia joins forces with ex-police officer Tom Stilton, who served with Olivia’s late father on the original spring tide murder investigation, but is now a member of the homeless community, with all the dangers this presents. The central joy of this book is that these two storylines are both equally compelling, and as Olivia’s investigation gathers speed, there is a shocking expose of members of the higher echelons of Sweden’s business community and their rum goings-on, linked to the shady world of the sex-trade. So often in books, there is a sense in the reader that they are wishing to return quickly to one strand over another, but I felt that the interweaving between the two, and the sordid realities they throw up in the overall plot were perfectly executed throughout. The writing is tight, precise and unyielding in its blunt descriptions of this world of sex, violence and human relationships. At times, the realities presented have a powerful emotional affect, particularly in the bonds of friendship between the homeless protagonists, and even more so in the re-assimilation of Stilton into everyday life as he is drawn into Olivia’s cold case investigation, and the inherent dangers that lie within a trip to his past and the capture of a killer.
Despite the grim nature of both investigations, this is a book punctuated by moments of teasing humour, redolent of the lighter side of Scandinavian crime fiction, and the repartee between certain characters, and the throwaway humorous remarks are beautifully placed throughout. Both Olivia and Tom are convincing, empathetic and I loved the, at times, wide-eyed naivety of Olivia tempered against her terrier- like and dogged pursuit of the truth in her cold case, and the physical dangers she never shies away from. She is a lovely character all round in her feistiness, and her sheer empathy to the victims of society ills, which makes the finale of the book all the more poignant as home truths are delivered to her with the force of a runaway train. Tom is a man of exceptional integrity, but fully encompasses the notion of people becoming adrift in society, and the nefarious paths and life choices that can be made- not always the good choices. I loved this multi-layered character and the way that he and Olivia were almost a reflection of each other, despite the wide differences in terms of age and gender, linked by their personal integrity and quest for justice.
So it is with some delight that I read that the second book has been published in Sweden, as Spring Tide is a great opener to a series. With its wonderfully balanced mix of murder mystery, a host of fascinating and multi-faceted characters, and the essential social comment of Scandinavian crime fiction , this was an altogether satisfying read that genuinely kept me reading to the wee small hours. Next one now. Please.
Opening with the unsettling murder of a young pregnant woman at the time of the spring tide, twenty-four years previously and now designated as a cold case: a case which a young police trainee, Olivia Ronning, is designated as a summer project. The plot unfolds in a number of directions, bringing the reader into the world of contemporary Sweden and a series of brutal attacks on the homeless community, cold-bloodedly filmed and uploaded to social media sites, a series of attacks that the police are failing to solve. Slowly, the two cases become intertwined, as Olivia joins forces with ex-police officer Tom Stilton, who served with Olivia’s late father on the original spring tide murder investigation, but is now a member of the homeless community, with all the dangers this presents. The central joy of this book is that these two storylines are both equally compelling, and as Olivia’s investigation gathers speed, there is a shocking expose of members of the higher echelons of Sweden’s business community and their rum goings-on, linked to the shady world of the sex-trade. So often in books, there is a sense in the reader that they are wishing to return quickly to one strand over another, but I felt that the interweaving between the two, and the sordid realities they throw up in the overall plot were perfectly executed throughout. The writing is tight, precise and unyielding in its blunt descriptions of this world of sex, violence and human relationships. At times, the realities presented have a powerful emotional affect, particularly in the bonds of friendship between the homeless protagonists, and even more so in the re-assimilation of Stilton into everyday life as he is drawn into Olivia’s cold case investigation, and the inherent dangers that lie within a trip to his past and the capture of a killer.
Despite the grim nature of both investigations, this is a book punctuated by moments of teasing humour, redolent of the lighter side of Scandinavian crime fiction, and the repartee between certain characters, and the throwaway humorous remarks are beautifully placed throughout. Both Olivia and Tom are convincing, empathetic and I loved the, at times, wide-eyed naivety of Olivia tempered against her terrier- like and dogged pursuit of the truth in her cold case, and the physical dangers she never shies away from. She is a lovely character all round in her feistiness, and her sheer empathy to the victims of society ills, which makes the finale of the book all the more poignant as home truths are delivered to her with the force of a runaway train. Tom is a man of exceptional integrity, but fully encompasses the notion of people becoming adrift in society, and the nefarious paths and life choices that can be made- not always the good choices. I loved this multi-layered character and the way that he and Olivia were almost a reflection of each other, despite the wide differences in terms of age and gender, linked by their personal integrity and quest for justice.
So it is with some delight that I read that the second book has been published in Sweden, as Spring Tide is a great opener to a series. With its wonderfully balanced mix of murder mystery, a host of fascinating and multi-faceted characters, and the essential social comment of Scandinavian crime fiction , this was an altogether satisfying read that genuinely kept me reading to the wee small hours. Next one now. Please.