The remote resort town of Fjällbacka has seen more than its share of tragedies, but a little girl found in a fisherman’s net may be the worst yet—especially when the postmortem reveals that this was a methodical murder, not an accidental drowning.
Local detective Patrik Hedstrom has just become a father, and it’s his grim task to discover who could have killed a child both he and his partner Erica knew well. He realizes that the solution lies with finding a motive for this terrible crime. Although Hedstrom is no stranger to the criminal mind, he couldn’t possibly predict how this case will reach into Fjällbacka’s darkest heart, spanning generations and ripping aside its idyllic façade, perhaps forever.
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“Here’s a young
Swedish writer who’s being hailed as ‘the Swedish Agatha Christie.’ Purists out
there will snort in derision, but Camilla Lackberg is very, very good. Her
domestic novels are outselling those of her late countryman Stieg Larsson, and
if she keeps producing mysteries as richly textured and downright breathtaking
as her latest, The Stonecutter,
who knows? Maybe, one day, we might be identifying Agatha Christie as ‘the
British Camilla Lackberg.’ The Stonecutter is one of those mysteries
that ruin a vacation. Take it to the beach and your eyes will be so locked on
its pages, you’ll never even know there’s an ocean in front of you.”
—
Washington Post