August 16, 2019
The Lost Boy combines a gripping police procedural
Camilla Lackberg proves why she’s called Sweden’s "queen of crime†in her superb
seventh novel set in the coastal town of Fjallbacka. Located just outside
Fjallbacka, the island was nicknamed Ghost Isle because of the legend that those
who die on the island remain there in spirit. Camilla Lackberg proves why she’s
called Sweden’s "queen of crime†in her superb seventh novel set in the coastal
town of Fjallbacka.
His life recently had become complicated with the
reappearance of his high school girlfriend, Nathalie Wester, and her
five-year-old son, Sam. While the shadowy ghosts permeate the story, Lackberg
keeps this supernatural aspect akin to those in the gothic masterpiece The Turn
of the Screw. In addition, Patrik ended up in the hospital at the same time
Erica was giving birth. Mats was well-liked by his colleagues and the town’s
residents, and doted on by his loving parents. Nathalie had fled to the area in
the middle of the night, returning to the nearby remote island Graskar where she
grew up.The joy that police detective Patrik Hedstrom and his wife, Erica, a
true-crime writer, feel over the recent birth of their twin sons is balanced by
a recent horrific car accident in which their infant nephew was killed.
The Lost
Boy combines a gripping police procedural with a ghost story while poignantly
delving into the devastating effects of grief, especially among mothers.Back on
the job after sick leave, Patrik and his fellow detectives investigate the
murder of Mats Sverin, Fjallbacka’s finance officer who was instrumental in
restoring a dilapidated hotel into a ritzy spa that surely will attract high-end
tourists to the town. Nathalie believes in those ghosts — she talked with them
when she was a child — and, now, she again finds comfort in them. Are the ghosts
real or are they in the character's mind.Delving into the intricacies of police foaming
barrel screw work, Lackberg also turns The Lost Boy into a psychological
thriller that digs deep into each character’s psyche
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