Johan Theorin

Theorin, Johan

The Darkest Room

'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it.'

It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But...Read more

Echoes from the Dead

Can you ever come to terms with a missing child?

Julia Davidsson has not.  Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish Island of Ă–land.  No trace of him has ever been found.

Until his shoe arrives in the post.  It has been sent to Julia...Read more

The Asylum

'We don't talk about sick or healthy people at St Patricia's. Words such as hysteric, lunatic and psychopath... They are no longer used. Because who amongst us can say that we are always healthy?'

An underground passage leads from the Dell nursery to Saint Patricia's asylum....Read more

Echoes from the Dead, Johan Theorin

This book is just classic Swedish / Scandinavian crime fiction.  Slow, involved, intricate, revealing and complex, ECHOES FROM THE DEAD concentrates very much on Julia, and her father, and their slow and careful repairing of a relationship which was torn apart at the time that Julia's son...Read more

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