I think, dear reader, that it might be time I promised to stop explaining I'm running late in posting this - if you'll just take it as a given that I should have done everything a few days ago. Mostly, this time, because I've nearly finished this book. A debut novel which is "blurbed" as 'Ice-cold suspense from Sweden's new Agatha Christie'. Now I'm not 100% sure what that means - but I doubt it will do the book a whole lot of service. Okay, it's a little bit of a closed community because it's snowing and it's a small town, but it's not really. It's certainly not a "no sex please, we're British" style - there is quite a bit of sex and family violence and whilst it's certainly not explicit, it's there. Anyway - more of that in the review as I should finish the whole book in the next couple of days.
The Blurb:
"Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems she has taken her own life."
The First Line:
"Eilert Berg was not a happy man. His breathing was strained and his breath came out of his mouth in little white puffs, but his health was not what he considered his biggest problem."
Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Her wrists slashed, her body frozen in an ice-cold bath, it seems that she has taken her own life.