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The Drowning

Lackberg, Camilla more...
Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck more...

Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Adventure / thriller; Crime & mystery
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 1/04/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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Christian Thydell has been receiving anonymous threats since he began writing his novel The Mermaid. When one message, secreted within a bouquet of flowers, causes him to collapse at the launch party, crime writer Erica Falck is compelled to investigate. Erica's husband detective Patrik Hedstrom, meanwhile, is puzzled by the disappearance of Christian's friend Magnus Kjellner four months previously. When a body is found frozen in the sea near Fjallbacka, he has a murder enquiry on his hands. Someone carries an intense hatred for Christian and his circle, and they won't hesitate to turn their threats into a reality. Clues in his debut novel The Mermaid point to a horrific secret buried deep in his past. One that someone will go to any lengths to keep hidden!

Praise for Camilla Lackberg: 'Mesmerising ! It's Lackberg's particular skill to have created two of the most fully rounded characters in contemporary crime fiction, with a warmth that cuts right through the Nordic chill' Independent 'Lackberg is an expert at mixing scenes of domestic cosiness with blood-curdling horror! a must for white-knuckle junkies' Guardian 'Lackberg is particularly good at portraying the claustrophobia of a small community in which everyone knows everyone else and the police may well be friends with killers' The Times 'Camilla Lackberg is probably the hottest female writer in Sweden at the moment! Lackberg's job is to make the reader pleasurably uncomfortable -- one of her ironclad skills' Barry Forshaw, Independent 'Chilly, deceptive and lucid, just like the icy environment it describes' Literary Review 'Both chilling and thrilling' Sun 'Heart-stopping and heart-warming, The Ice Princess is a masterclass in Scandinavian crime writing' Val McDermid

Title: The Drowning
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Contributors: By (author) Camilla Lackberg

ISBN 13: 9780007460847
ISBN 10: 0007460848

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Publication Date: 1/04/2012
Place of Publication: London, United Kingdom
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BIC Subjects: Adventure / thriller ; Crime & mystery
NBS Classification: Crime & Thriller

Format: Paperback
Pages: 496
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Weight: 639g