The Book Depository The Hidden Child by Camilla Lackberg
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Description: The Hidden Child : Paperback : Harper Collins Publishers : 9780007419494 : 000741949X : 20 Jun 2011 : No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg's chilling psychological thriller featuring Detective Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck - irresistible for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. The Book Depository The Hidden Child by Camilla Lackberg - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780007419494
MPN: 000741949X
GTIN: 9780007419494
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Rating: 5
Review: The fifth installment in the Camilla series of books and this one is a real favourite of ours due to the history and weaving in of past and present. The best in the series we think. A horrible secret from the past slowly comes to light - about a young man who fled the Germans and came to Sweden looking to start over. Turns out the murder victim was making regular payments to someone for some reason. could it be that he wanted a secret kept hidden? A secret held by friends in the 40s that Erica’s mum may have been a part of? Fjällbacka takes on a really dark tone in the latest Camilla Lackberg novel and it delves into the shady world of Naziism and Sweden’s role in the 2WW which has levels of intrigue and darkness that none of the previous novels have had in such abundance. The links between this latest cloud on the Fjällbacka horizon is enhanced since it is Erica’s mother who is, at at least seems to be, at the centre of it all and it is Erica who goes investigating to try and find out he truth. Having read about the 2WW and learned a little about the Swedish standpoint and war issues at first hand, I was intrigued to read about the moral crisis that people may have had years ago and how they dealt with having a war criminal in their midst. It also made us think of how we would have reacted in their circumstance and the good and bad about wanting some kind of retribution for the past. The story of Neo-Nazis with the calm and remote backdrop of Fjällbacka really made the issue stand out as it is not the place you would associate with any of the war issues at all. Very effective and very chilling.
Author: Char Louise
Rating: 3
Review: I hadn't read any of the other books but I saw this one and thought the plot sounded interesting. But it wasn't really what I expected; a lot of the book was more like a family drama than a crime novel. There was a lot about Melberg and his dog, Patrik and Erica's child care division and Erica's sister's new relationship - I understand that you have to build up these characters for the sake of the series, but if reading as a stand alone book, these details were tedious and boring and slowed the plot down. At 25% of the way through I considered skipping parts to get to the action, because nothing had happened yet. I was also disappointed because the blurb makes it sound like the discovery of the medal and taking it to show Erik are part of this book, when actually these things happened in the last book and the story picks up from there. The book did speed up later and I enjoyed the second half more, but on the whole there were too many unnecessary details about the characters' lives which slowed the plot down.
