The Preacher

By Camilla Läckberg

Book Overview

Hot on the heels of her phenomenal American debut, The Ice Princess, Camilla L ckberg brings readers back to the quiet, isolated fishing village in Sweden where dangerous secrets lie just beneath the community's tranquil surface.

During an unusually hot July, detective Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck are enjoying a rare week at home together, nervous and excited about the imminent birth of their first baby. Across town, however, a six-year-old boy makes a gruesome discovery that will ravage their little tourist community and catapult Patrik into the center of a terrifying murder case.

The boy has stumbled upon the brutally murdered body of a young woman, and Patrik is immediately called to lead the investigation. Things get even worse when his team uncovers, buried beneath the victim, the skeletons of two campers whose disappearance had baffled police for decades. The three victims' injuries seem to be the work of the same killer, but that is impossible: the main suspect in the original kidnappings committed suicide twenty-four years ago.

When yet another young girl disappears and panic begins to spread, Patrik leads a desperate manhunt to track down a ruthless serial killer before he strikes again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451621779
• ISBN13: 9781451621778
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Painful reading

If you are going to read this, make a list of the characters and their relationships as you read about them or you'll be lost. The book jumps all over in a disjointed fashion. Unrelated story lines adding nothing but words are interjected. The book is far too long. Good editing would have produced a tighter, more readable story. There are mistakes that would have been caught with better editing, too. Some sentences are so trite and predictable as to be laughable. Perhaps this is the result of the translation, but taken in its entirety, the book seems first draft-like. I had difficulty finishing the book, but plugged on until the end.

The Scandinavian's Score Again

In a word: Excellent! Clever and intricate plot, great character development. I look forward to more works by this writer.

Predikanten (av Camilla Läckberg)

Andra boken med Patrik Hedström och hans kollegor i Tanumshedes poliskår. En kvinna hittas mördad i Kungsklyftan i Fjällbacka. Under hennes kropp finner man skeletten efter ytterligare två kvinnor som försvann på 1970-talet. Utredarna måste gå långt tillbaka i tiden för att upptäcka sambandet mellan de tre kvinnornas död. Svenska, 317 sidor