The Lost Boy - Softcover

Lackberg, Camilla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007419554 ISBN 13: 9780007419555

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2013

Synopsis

A woman jumps into her car, her hands bloody as she grips the steering wheel. With her young son in the back seat, she flees to the only safe place she knows: the island of Gråskär outside of Fjällbacka.A couple of days later, a man is found murdered in his flat. Mats Sverin was the council's financial director and nobody has a bad word to say against him. But when detective Patrik Hedström and his team start looking into his life they uncover a number of shocking secrets.It turns out that the man had visited Gråskär before he died. Locally the island is known as Ghost Isle; they say it's haunted by the dead and that they have something to tell the living...

About this title

About the Author:

Born in 1971, Camilla Leckberg graduated from Gothenburg University of Economics, before moving to Stockholm where she worked for a few years as an economist. However, a course in creative crime writing became the trigger to a drastic change of career. Her first four novels all became Swedish bestsellers. She lives in a suburb of Stockholm, with her husband Micke and her two children.

Review:

Praise for Camilla Lackberg: `The hottest female writer in Sweden' Independent `Heart-stopping and heart-warming ... a masterclass in Scandinavian crime writing' Val McDermid `Pacy ... with flashing insight into the dark places of the psyche' Sunday Times `Lackberg is an expert at mixing scenes of domestic cosiness with blood-curdling horror' Guardian `Both chilling and thrilling' Sun

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0007419554
• ISBN 13: 9780007419555
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1