Saturday, October 23, 2021

Johan Theorin

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“On a gray September day, on an island off the coast of Sweden, six-year-old Jens Davidsson ventured out of his backyard, walked out into a fog, and vanished….Now twenty years have passed, and in this magnificent debut novel of suspense—a runaway bestseller in Sweden—the boy’s mother returns to the place where her son disappeared, drawn by a chilling package sent in the mail… In it, lovingly wrapped, is one of Jens’ sandals—sandals Julia Davidsson put on her son’s feet that very last morning.

Now, with only a handful of clues, Julia and her father are questioning islanders who were present the day Jens vanished—and making a shocking connection to Öland’s most notorious murder case: the killing spree of a wealthy young man who fled the island and died years before Jens was even born. Suddenly the island that once seemed so achingly familiar turns strange and dangerous… Until Julia finds herself facing truths she never imagined—about what really happened on that September day twenty years ago, about who may have crossed paths with little Jens in the fog, and how a child could truly vanish without a trace…until now.

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Reading this book just brought back all the similar reading experiences of reading the series Shetland Island by Ann Cleeves. You took a slow walk around an almost empty town. Too bad I can’t get more of her books.

However, I didn’t like it when I realized who the murderer was, and how little Jens ended up being killed. Worst of all, it was not meant to happened. He walked into the wrong place, met the wrong people, at the wrong time.