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A review by ridgewaygirl
Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
3.0
The popularity of Henning Mankell has opened the English speaking world to Scandinavian Mystery novels and we are much the richer for it. Translate all of them, please!
Echoes from the Dead concerns a young boy, missing for twenty years when the story opens, and the catastrophic effect his disappearance on an isolated Swedish island has had on his family, especially his mother, Julia, who never recovered and lives a sort of twilight life. Her father receives a boy's sandal in the mail and begins to look for answers, calling his daughter back to the island. What follows is a tautly-written thriller where no one is as they seem and secrets run deep.
Echoes from the Dead is well-written and well-plotted and well worth reading.
Echoes from the Dead concerns a young boy, missing for twenty years when the story opens, and the catastrophic effect his disappearance on an isolated Swedish island has had on his family, especially his mother, Julia, who never recovered and lives a sort of twilight life. Her father receives a boy's sandal in the mail and begins to look for answers, calling his daughter back to the island. What follows is a tautly-written thriller where no one is as they seem and secrets run deep.
Echoes from the Dead is well-written and well-plotted and well worth reading.