Echoes from the Dead

Winner of the CWA Best Debut Crime Novel 2009- a haunting first novel about a missing child.'An impressive debut novel' The Times'Fantastic' GuardianCan you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found.Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past- fragments that point inexorably to a local man called Nils Kant, known to delight in the pain of others. But Nils Kant died during the 1960s. So who is the stranger seen wandering across the fields as darkness falls?It soon becomes clear that someone wants to stop Julia's search for the truth. And that he's much, much closer than she thinks . . .

Winner of CWA New Blood Dagger 2009

“Evocative and haunting , with a subtle sense of menace that grows with each page”

Evocative and haunting, with a subtle sense of menace that grows with each page -- Simon Beckett, author of The Chemistry of Death
An impressive debut novel...Theorin's excellence in conveying bleak atmosphere is matched by his insight into sensitive family relationships THE TIMES
Fantastic... Theorin's prose is wonderfully descriptive GUARDIAN
There is warmth in Theorin's narrative and the gradual piecing together of the story leads to an unexpected denouement SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Sheer storytelling grip such as this is relatively rare. A particular strength is the evocation of locale and atmosphere here; it is masterfully done THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE

Throughout his life, Johan Theorin has been a regular visitor to the Baltic Island of land. His mother's family - sailors, fishermen and farmers - have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island's rich legacy of strange tales and folklore. A journalist by profession, Johan is currently working on the third novel.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER On the Swedish island of land, a little boy has gone missing. It happened twenty years ago, and although his mother, Julia, and her family searched everywhere, no trace of him was ever found. Until today, when his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon, he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that point inexorably to Nils Kant, known to delight in the pain of others. But Nils Kant died during the 1960s. So who is the stranger seen wandering across the fields as darkness falls? It soon becomes clear that someone wants to stop Julia's search for the truth. And that he is much, much closer than she thinks. . . Voted Best First Crime Novel by the Swedish Academy of Crime

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