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Skumringstimen (2007)

by Johan Theorin(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Gyldendal Krim

series

The Öland Quartet

review 1: Just when I thought I had discovered the best Scandinavian authors, I find Johan Theorin. He is one good story teller and this is a book I did not want to put down, even for a minute. The story is about a little boy of six years old, who disappeared in 1972 and was never found. Twenty years later, his eight-year old grandfather, who was taking care of him on the day he disappeared, has received one of the boy's sandals in the post and he contacts his daughter and asks her to come down to the Island of Oland, to help him find the truth as to what happened on that fateful day. Julia, the boy's mother, has never got over the loss of her only child and the worst part of not knowing what happened to him. She holds hope that maybe he is still alive, but with the arrival of the s... moreandal in the post, she starts to come to the realisation that he is indeed dead. Julia and her father, Gerlof, set about trying to discover the events that led up to Jens disappearance and we see the effect it has had on their lives, all these years later. It is a story told in past and present tense, that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat, wanting to know desperately, what happened to little Jens. It rings true in how Julia's grief is described and how she cannot let go of the past and cannot get over the loss of her child. I would highly recommend this author, who has also written two further books in this "Oland Quartet", I have read one, "The Darkest Room", (another fantastic book), "The Quarry", I am on the hunt for and there is a further one, not yet translated into English. He has also written "The Asylum", not part of the Quartet, but another great read. I hope there are many more books to come.
review 2: Very enjoyable. Kind of creepy/mysterious. 2nd book of Theorin's I've read set on the island of Oland, just off the Swedish mainland. The stark landscape is much a character as the myriad individuals we get to meet along the way. Told mostly through the eyes of a mother who's boy wandered out onto the Alvar (limestone) in the fog and disappeared, and her father who puts together clues as to the boy's disappearance and what might have happened to who they suspect the murderer is. less

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