La sirène (original 2008; edition 2012)

by Camilla Läckberg, Lena Grumbach (Translator)

Series: Erica Falck & Patrik Hedström (6)

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Title:	La sirène
Authors:	Camilla Läckberg
Other authors:	Lena Grumbach (Translator)
Info:	Actes noirs(2012), Broché, 416 pages
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The Drowning by Camilla Läckberg (2008)

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BoekenTrol71 | Mar 31, 2013 |

Another book I would have enjoyed far more if the author hadn't taken the easy out and decided that someone with a mental health problem was the killer. How many times do people have to shout that those with mental health problems are far more likely to be the victims of crime then the perpetrators. This frustrates me so much, it's just lazy, stigmatising and boringly repetative.

Or maybe I should just get off my high horse. (

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chive | Aug 8, 2012 |

I really loved reading this book. It has all the ingredients for a spectacular thriller: secret histories, revenge and dark memories. Lackberg is so talented in giving tiny amounts of information that keep you hooked from beginning to end. Somewhere near the end I started hoping Lackberg wouldn't give me a farfetched ending to the story. But alas... having a cross-dressing schizofrenic is not my idea of a brilliant ending - I would have given this book more stars if the ending had been as as good as the rest of the story. (

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Series (with order)

Erica Falck & Patrik Hedström (6)

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The Drowning

Original title

Sjöjungfrun

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2008

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Erica Falck

Patrik Hedström

Christian en Sanna Thydell

Magnus en Cia Kjellner

Kenneth en Lisbeth Bengtsson

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Fjällbacka, Zweden

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He had known that sooner or later it would come to light again. Something like that was impossible to hide. Every word had led him closer to what was unnameable and appalling. What he had been trying for so many years to repress.
Now escape was no longer an option.

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De kanker had gewonnen, maar toch verloren, want die zou met haar sterven

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Christian Thydell’s dream has come true: his debut novel, The Mermaid, is published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever?

When crime writer Erica Falck, who discovered Christian’s talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just the messages but also the author’s mysterious past…

Meanwhile, one of Christian’s closest friends is missing. Erica’s husband, Detective Patrik Hedström, has his worst suspicions confirmed as the mind-games aimed at Christian and those around him become a disturbing reality.

But, with the victims themselves concealing evidence, the investigation is going nowhere. Is their silence driven by fear or guilt? And what is the secret they would rather die to protect than live to see revealed?

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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 Christian to collapse at the launch party, crime writer Erica Falck is compelled to investigate.… (more)

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