But within the pages is a painful revelation about Erica's past. But Erica: Convince a seasoned detective to do her bidding behind her husband's back so she can conduct her own investigation? Who would kill so ruthlessly to bury secrets so old? A family vanishes without a trace from the island of Valö outside of Fjällbacka. The Hidden Child is easily the strongest entry in Läckberg's canon to date, and this is largely attributable to the fact that in this novel she has a masterful handle on just about all of her characters. A fourth woman has just gone missing. And as someone who is not married, there is a lot of explaining that happens. His wife, Erica, starts to read some of her mother's old diaries and is inadvertently drawn into this investigation. This is the actual town where the author grew up.
The plot is also very good with plenty of twists and turns to keep you wondering and turning the pages. Hackosaurus Läckberg genuinely surprised me. Many characters are woven in and most of them have something big or small to do with the crime, or at least add to the plot. . In fact, this book reminded me of 'Criminal Minds', a series which has left me disturbed quite often, but which I really love and will keep on watching. Some comical moments as he adjusts to life as a 3.
They had some interesting characteristics. Reason three is a constant flow of two to four page cliffhangers -- and when I say constant I mean it. Perhaps the most disappointing book of the year for me. But, like, Patrik will do things like go on an accidental two-hour errand run, while leaving the baby with Erica even though she's now working and he's on paternity leave, and then Erica will be pissed at him. Erica is a crime writer, mother and wife to Detective Patrick Hedstrom. This is another of Ms Lackberg's stories starring Erica and Patrick, altho in this book like others, they are not really the focus.
As the story progresses, we learn the fate of 4 generations of women. Only untill the very end it was clear how the story really was. The side story of Erica, Patrick's pregnant partner and her sister Anne who is forever attracting the wrong kind of man, too wasn't thAt convincing. My god, I always look forward to her new book. I was only interested in the retrospective narrative and so skipped the rest of the chapters and stuck to the hindsight chapters after about 150 pages. I might have to stay.
An arson attempt on the house while they are there brings Patrik Hedstrom to investigate. In 1974, a family vanishes from their home at a boy's school on an island. The mysteries in the book multiply when a woman with Alzheimer's disease is killed and Elsy's friends are curiously reluctant to talk about Elsy with her daughter, Erica. . .
In fact I had a hard time really relating to just about anybody in this book. Of misschien verkies je wel? Patrik is oh-so-competent as an investigator and doesn't involve himself too much in his family life. When you get past the familiar, tried and tested, formulaic writing style, this is another excellent book. This book is a crime thriller, based on a lead detective in Sweden, his true-crime-book writing wife, and a horrible, unthinkable crime. Use downloads to watch while you're on the go and without an internet connection. I did like how the author would sometimes give us glimpses into the past, but other than that, I was disappointed in this book.
The dark past is coming to light, and no one will escape the truth of how they came to be. Now I feel like I got suckered into reading a checkout-lane thriller in which the characters grow increasingly into Oh, lord. She spends all her time rearranging photo albums from the days when she was a beauty queen. Nevertheless, I enjoyed reading along, getting more and more facts and with that realizing the horrible truth behind all the missing girls. The plot developed and I stuck it out The ending was quite lame. The Hidden Child is about a dark secret from childhood that seeps out into a present time where those distant friends now elderly are caught up in a murder when one of their number is brutally killed - can it really be linked with the past.
. That's the way I felt after seeing the trailer for Franco Amurri's Flashback, but the film itself is a pleasant surprise - deeper and more original than the formula that the trailer seems to promise. . Whenever I pick up one of her books with a few exceptions it's simply impossible for me to put them down. So she is not only strong but happy. This is a crazy good creepy dark Swedish crime series.
Bear with me and wait for the next review! Reason two was the book's pacing. And at the same time the main 4 or 5 characters have also become pure stereotypes. I was not impressed with the ending, nor did I like it, but it would have been a worse book had the case ended differently. . Camilla Lackberg's Patrik Hedstrom series was my first and still favorite crime series.