Sunday at Zenda. Sunday of great hits. Sunday, in this case, devoted to The Crying of the Dead, the Swedish writer Camilla Läckberg (Fjällbacka, 1974), published by Planeta with a Spanish translation by Carmen Montes Cano. Twelfth installment of the Fjällbacka series, set in the birthplace of the author herself, which propelled her to stardom more than two decades ago thanks to the memorable The Ice Princess, The Crying of the Dead pushes Läckberg’s usual protagonists, detective Patrik Hedström and writer Erica Falck, to delve into the rocky terrain of the history of their own town.
The publisher notes, regarding the book: “Thirty years ago, the teenage Sofie, Ellen, and Magdalena were inseparable, and the future seemed to promise them flawless happiness.
Until one night, Sofie disappeared without a trace and nothing in Fjällbacka has been the same since
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Now, following a fortuitous discovery about the case, Patrik Hedström and his colleagues at the Tanumshede police station resume the investigation, while his wife, the writer Erica Falck, unable to stay on the sidelines, decides to look into it on her own. With scarcely any clues, perhaps the elderly Aino, the mourner—the woman who weeps for the dead—may be the only one capable of shedding light on the questions from the past that still cast their shadow on the present.”
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Author: Camilla Läckberg. Translation: Carmen Montes Cano. Title: The Crying of the Dead. Publisher: Planeta. Retail: Todos tus libros.