The Quarry

Informationen zum Autor Johan Theorin ’s first novel, Echoes from the Dead, won The Swedish Crime Academy’s Best First Novel award in 2007, and went on to win the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger in 2009. His second novel, The Darkest Room, won the Best Swedish Novel 2008, and the CWA International Dagger in 2010. Throughout his life, Johan has been a regular visitor to the Baltic island of Öland, where many of his books are set. 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 lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. Klappentext As the last snow melts on the Swedish island of Oland! Per Morner receives a call from his estranged father begging him for help. Per finds him near death in his blazing woodland studio! with two dead bodies also in the burnt out building. But the only suspect is confirmed as one of the dead! so why does Per's father! still fearing for his life! insist that the man is still alive? 'If you like Stieg Larsson! try a much better Swedish writer' "Observer" Zusammenfassung 'Powerful' Guardian'Haunting' IndependentHow close can you get to the truth...before you become the target?Jerry Morner lives quietly in a cabin by the old quarry, hurting no one. But he soon realises that some secrets are better left to the dead.

Product details

• Authors: Johan Theorin
• Assisted by: Marlaine Delargy (Translation)
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.12.2012
• EAN: 9780552777049
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77704-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Black Swan; Öland; Oland Quartet; Öland; Öland-Reihe; The Oland Quartet
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Schwedische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Crime, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense