The Öland Quartet (15 books in series)
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review 1: This Scandanavian novel starts when a young family moves to an old house in the country that is reputed to be haunted. It is part ghost story, part family saga, and part crime thriller. The author goes a good job of developing a creepy atmosphere for the ghostly parts, keeping ...
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review 1: This is the second of Johan Theorin's planned quartet of books set in Oland, a part of Sweden he knows intimately. A family from Stockholm buys an old manor house, and are in the process of restoring it when the wife is found drowned while her husband is away. Her husband and d...
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review 1: 2 книга по счету из серии "Эландский квартет". Все действия происходят на шведском острове Эланд в Балтийском море. Автора называют шведским Стивеном Кингом из-за мшист чешской составляющей в каждом из его романов. При этом, в итоге получается крепкий скандинавский детектив, кото...
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review 1: My first novel by Johan Theorin that takes place on Oland, Sweden ( a small island off the western coast ). A story about a man and wife with their two small children who move there from Stockholm to get away from big city life and from personal demons. Very shortly after their...
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review 1: I've just finished reading this book - it was this month's title in the Monday Night Murders reading group at my local library. I really enjoyed it, although it seemed a bit slow at the beginning. The way the author moves between events in the present and those in the past help...
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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. T...
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review 1: I've been reading Scandinavian mysteries all summer: Camilla Lackberg, Karen Fossum, Jussi Adler-Olsen. This is my favourite of them all. It's more than formulaic. Has an interesting sense of place, strong characters and the writing is fine. Usually about mid-way through a myster...
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review 1: Enjoyed this although it is a sad story (and I am not keen on books in which bad things happen to children). It's set on the island of Öland, about which I knew nothing and which I now feel I know quite a lot about thanks to this book - lovely atmospheric sense of place. There ar...
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review 1: This is the last of Theorin's Öland quartet, and to my mind, the least successful/most ambitious. He tries to weave together Bronze-Age ghosts, ghost ships, Stalin's Reign of Terror, and a simple land rights disagreement into a story and it sort of subsumes any attempt at pacing ...
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review 1: Gave it the 100 page test and couldn't continue. This is the third book in the Oland series. I love Gerlof so much with his amateur sleuthing but he is merely a helpless character here without solid writing from Theorin. The story itself never felt cohesive and the normally so...
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review 1: Каждая книга автора наполнена мифами и сказочными персонажами, при этом сохраняя статус детектива. Причем, детектива очень крепкого. Во всех 4 книгах цикла действие проходят на шведском острове Эланд в Балтийском море. Порой, встречаются персонажи из 1 книги, что добавляет острот...
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review 1: I enjoyed The Quarry. I read Theorin’s novel The Darkest Room a few months ago and really enjoyed it so I wanted to check out more of his work. The Quarry takes a while to get going and that’s the only real failing. I found the first fifty or so pages a bit of a drag. The pace ev...
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review 1: Ghost story more than crime fiction, I think. The real character in these books is the island of Oland - the description of it in the winter is particularly good. This one is set in an old house on the ast coast, built from wood salvaged from a wreck, so tragedy is part of the ve...
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review 1: After a really slow start, this book became quite engrossing. What kept me reading through the very gradual buildup was the character Gerlof, an old man who looks back on his life with an attitude of acceptance mingled with regret. The story of the missing child proves to be quit...
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review 1: Knihy Johana Theorina nejsou detektivkami v pravém slova smyslu, spíš staví na detektivní zápletce a samotné rozuzlení nebývá tak zajímavé jako samotná atmosféra, kterou je zápletka obehnána. Autor těží z pověstí a mýtů, které se váží k ostrovu Öland, dává je do souvislostí, snaž...