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AMAZING! It had me guessing till the very last chapter.... I love Lackberg!! I love the plot the twists and turns in the story... I love Erica and Patric... Best psychological thriller I've read so far..Mystery lovers, what are you waiting for??
The bottom line: the novel's premise is interesting, but I did not enjoy the book because of the sloppy writing (a translation problem?), the unsympathetic characters, and the shame-on-you dirty writers' tricks Lackberg uses to keep readers from seeing or knowing what the characters see and know.I wrote a much longer version of this review for my blog, but the gist remains the same. While the plot was interesting (I did read all the way through to the end), it wasn't enough to overcome how annoy...
I so want to be able to give half star ratings. I would give The Preacher a 4.5, for I enjoyed it very much. I reserve 5 stars for my most favorite, fabulous, couldn't put it down books. This one was close but not quite five. :)
Erica and Patrik are expecting their first child when a body is found on top of two skeletons that could be the bones after two women that disappeared twenty years ago. Could it be that the same killer is starting again?I love cold cases and this book was just as the first book thrilling to listening to. Besides the present story do we also get flashbacks back to when the first two women were taken. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered, like who is behind the new killing? Is it
This is the first book I read from this author and gave me the best impressions!!!I will definately read more books of Mrs Lackberg!!
After years of anticipation (on my part, at least) Camilla Lackberg's first novel, The Ice Princess was finally published in the U.S. a month ago. (It's been in English translation in the UK and Canada since 2008.) I'm happy to say that the book really delivers--it reminded me a lot of Karin Fossum's Don't Look Back with its portrayal of a claustrophobic small town rife with secret scandals and tensions. In The Ice Princess, Lackberg did a great job of imbuing each character--even minor ones--wi...
This is my 3rd book in the Patrick Hedstorm series, and the worst among rhose.A very insipid tale told of young women found dead or missing in the 70s as well as in 2004... and connection sought for these different timelines of crimes. The side story of Erica, Patrick's pregnant partner and her sister Anne who is forever attracting the wrong kind of man, too wasn't thAt convincing. Would continue with the series as I have invested in the private lives of the investigators and their respective fa...
5 stars again! Honestly thinking it’s my favorite so far in the Patrik Hedstrom series! It’s number two, but I’ve already read numbers one and three + The Golden Cage which isn’t part of the series. The Preacher is expertly multilayered with relationships among and between Sweden’s economic and social classes, as well as some interesting tidbits that had me looking up facts in Wikipedia. I love the italicized POV narratives as situational clues that Lackberg creates, and this time they were curi...
A dar, rather slow-moving crime novel (this is Sweden of course!). Somewhat engrossing.
I keep wondering HOW on earth the writer thought of that story!! What was on her mind at the first place! Good work Camilla Lackberg! So promising for her next novels that I m sure gonna follow. Definitely better than Lackberg's first book The Ice Princess - stronger plot with many scenes of agony (ex. the grave moment: couldnt wait, had to turn the pages forward to see what was found!☺ ) Liked the fact that we were updated on Patrick and Erica's lives as well as on other people's stories that w...
So we continue with our two main characters, Ericka Falck and Patrik Hedström. Now, however, Ericka is pregnant and physically unable to contribute much to the investigation. In fact, she is almost entirely sidelined. So what does she do in this book, apart from being heavily pregnant and uncomfortable in the heat? She reluctantly looks after two sets of visitors who invite themselves to the summer house. The first lot are relatives (with dreadful children) to whom she has never been close, and
I'm beginning to think that maybe Swedish mysteries aren't for me, at least not audiobooks. There are always lots and lots of characters, all with achingly similar sounding names or names that to me are incomprehensible or are being mispronounced. We have the couple, Patrik and Erica, carried over from #1 in the series, which I did not read. Seemingly simple names, yet the British narrator for some reason is saying Portrik and Eurika, and maybe that's how they say the names in Sweden, but I doub...