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This fantastic first novel from Swedish author Theorin is set on the desolate Baltic island of Öland, a "summer place" which is almost uninhabited for the rest of the year. One reason why I read Scandinavian novels is because of their atmosphere. November 25th 2008 Unfortunately some of the events are a bit too coincidental to be realistic (Julia’s father almost seems to change into Columbo). Might have missed some more subtle or deep stuff that makes most of the other reviewers love this book.

We’d love your help. Welcome back. His evocation of the island's austere but beautiful geography, isolation and off-season loneliness are powerful settings for the murder mysteries that are the heart of the books, if not always there main center of interest. No hot shot detectives, no fancy investigations, no boring clichees. Are they going to be strong enough to put this together? In autumn there are very few residents in the tiny fictitious village of Stenvik. Julia has lived with the guilt of her son's disappearance for 21 years. A mother returns to the desolate island where she was born to investigate the disappearance of her son 21 years ago.Twenty-one years after the death of her young son, Julia Davidsson returns to her childhood home on the desolate island of Oland. It wasn’t bad, but I just kept skipping huge chunks because I wasn’t interested enough. I enjoyed Johan Theorin"s 1st book in the Oland series very much.

Echoes from the Dead (Swedish: Skumtimmen) is a 2013 Swedish drama film based on the eponymous novel by Johan Theorin.. Lens is 4 years old when he wanders away from his grandparents cottage on the island of Oland, Sweden and is never seen again. Like a locked room mystery, this puzzle placed on a wintery Swedish island offers us an unexplained disappearance, a grieving mother, a guilt-driven grandfather and a cast of islanders with their own motivations and goals, including a young man who grows old just wanting to go home.

He writes of Öland Island, off the southeastern coast of Sweden. Echoes from the Dead is a translated fiction work from Swedish author Johan Theorin. Her rickety old father, Gerlof, the stubbornest resident in the old folks' home where he now lives, has been sent a sandal that looks like one of the pair Jens was wearing the day he vanished. One of the best I have read this year. The premise for the book is that a child went missing during a visit near the sea and that one parent (in this book the mother, in Harbour the father) can't get over the tragedy and seeks comfort at bottom of every bottle.

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The film has some of the most famous Swedish actors in the lead, including Lena Endre, which in my opinion makes one of her better performances in this movie, as the daughter who struggles with the past, and who fight to find the truth at last. The grandfather Gerloft calls his daughter Julia to come to see him so they can resolve what happened to Jens.I have found a new favorite author. The premise for the book is that a child went missing during a visit near the sea and that one parent (in this book the mother, in Harbour the father) can't get over the tragedy and seeks comfort at bottom of every bottle. I have found a new favorite author. "Echoes from the Dead" is also engaging, though I have to admit that it is a bit slow to take off in terms of the plot (which wasn't the case with The Darkest Room - that book grabbed me from the first and the suspense never lets up). Most everyone has assumed he'd drowned; she's not willing to believe heA very haunting story, Echoes From the Dead begins in 1972, when Jens, a 6-year old boy, decides that he'll scale the garden wall while his grandmother's taking a nap and everyone else is away from the home. Really hard to put down, even toward the end when I feared he might have trouble tying up what was starting to seem like a couple too may loose ends, but he did a serviceable job of that, and after all, it was a debut. The father receives the child's sandal from an anonymous source and so begins the mystery of the missing child as the father is able to eventually figure out the mystery because of his knowledge of the people and the island by slowly piecing things together. The story centers around the mother and Gerlof's relationship with his daughter as they both get themselves in tight fixes as a result of their sleuthing. The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.

The book, which addresses many key issues such as old vs new Scandinavian culture, island village vs mainland, etc is quite atmospheric. It seems that Gerlof has never stopped trying to figure out what happened to Jens, and has come up with a few theories of his own, along with a few of his friends. Twenty years later his mother Julia is still crippled by her grief and her father Gerlof, now in a retirement home receives a package that will make them ask yet again, 'What really happened the day Lens disappeared'?

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