Echoes from the Dead: Oland Quartet series 1

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Russia per vedere i titoli disponibili. Can 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: But Nils Kant died during the s. 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.

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Echoes from the Dead (Oland, book 1) by Johan Theorin

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Silent as the Dead. Fireraiser Oslo Crime Files 3. The Silence of the Sea. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The strongest element of Echoes From the Dead was its sense of place. One reason why I read Scandinavian novels is because of their atmosphere.

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And crucial parts of that atmosphere are the climate and the topography of the respective countries. This book painted a picture of Oland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea, that is particularly vivid and as much a character in the story as the human ones. The main characters are well-drawn, but at first the one I was most interested in was Nils Kant, w The strongest element of Echoes From the Dead was its sense of place. The main characters are well-drawn, but at first the one I was most interested in was Nils Kant, who seemed to be the personification of evil, or at the very least, a sociopath.

When he didn't turn out to be the person responsible for the disappearance of a little boy, I was almost disappointed. The fact that the "evil" Kant turned out to be a victim as well was a bit of a let-down because I was expecting much more from this character. The actual culprit seemed to come out of nowhere, which made me feel like the author cheated a little bit. But when the ending unfolded and all was explained, I decided that the mystery had definitely been a good one.

Although the ending wasn't a particularly happy one, in the sense that the little boy had indeed been killed, it did bring peace to the two main characters who I'd come to care about very much. I will have to say that this book was quite different in that one of the main characters and the one who was responsible for solving the mystery was an old man who lived in a nursing home.

I found him totally engaging and effective. I don't know if he shows up in subsequent books, but he ought to. Nov 18, Nancy Oakes rated it really liked it Shelves: A very haunting story, Echoes From the Dead begins in , when Jens, a 6-year old boy, decides that he'll scale the garden wall while his grandmother's taking a nap and everyone else is away from the home. We are told right away that in the fog,Jens encounters someone identifying himself as Nils Kant, and after that, he's just gone.

Flash forward 20 years, and his mother, Julia, has still not gotten over his disappearance. Most everyone has assumed he'd drowned; she's not willing to believe he A very haunting story, Echoes From the Dead begins in , when Jens, a 6-year old boy, decides that he'll scale the garden wall while his grandmother's taking a nap and everyone else is away from the home. Most everyone has assumed he'd drowned; she's not willing to believe he's gone.

She's a psychological wreck, unable to work, drinking, sitting all day watching a home shopping network type show on tv. But all of that changes one day when her father, Gerlof, phones her to say that he's just received a child's sandal in the mail, and that it is likely one belonging to Jens.

Off goes Julia back to where it all happened and where Gerlof now lives in a residential nursing home. It seems that Gerlof has never stopped trying to figure out what happened to Jens, and has come up with a few theories of his own, along with a few of his friends. Gerlof, his friends, and Julia all try to figure out what happened to little Jens 20 years earlier. What's really great about this novel is that the author sets up such an incredible atmosphere of suspense and gloom that you can't put the book down. Carefully interweaving the story of Nils Kant from his childhood onward, Theorin captures his reader's attention from the outset.

All of the characters are very well defined and very believable and the writing is very good. I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone, especially readers who enjoy Scandinavian mysteries. Hard to believe, but this is the author's first novel. I'll be on the lookout for the next one.

Nov 27, Jmm rated it it was amazing Recommended to Jmm by: Everyone except Julia believes Jens wandered down to the shore and drowned. Unable to accept that her son is dead, Julia withdraws from her family and stumbles through life using alcohol and medication to deaden the pain of not knowing.

Johan Theorin's "Echoes from the Dead" is an absorbing mystery that works on several levels: It is a story that unfolds across and between time periods starting with the day Jens disppears, then flowing back and forth between present and past: Sep 24, Mary Gilligan-Nolan rated it it was amazing. He is one good story teller and this is a book I did not want to put down, even for a minute. The story is about a little boy of six years old, who disappeared in and was never found.

Twenty years later, his eight-year old grandfather, who was taking care of him on the day he disappeared, has received one of the boy's sandals in the post and he contacts his daughter and asks her to come down to the Isl Just when I thought I had discovered the best Scandinavian authors, I find Johan Theorin. Twenty years later, his eight-year old grandfather, who was taking care of him on the day he disappeared, has received one of the boy's sandals in the post and he contacts his daughter and asks her to come down to the Island of Oland, to help him find the truth as to what happened on that fateful day.

Julia, the boy's mother, has never got over the loss of her only child and the worst part of not knowing what happened to him. She holds hope that maybe he is still alive, but with the arrival of the sandal in the post, she starts to come to the realisation that he is indeed dead. Julia and her father, Gerlof, set about trying to discover the events that led up to Jens disappearance and we see the effect it has had on their lives, all these years later.

It is a story told in past and present tense, that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat, wanting to know desperately, what happened to little Jens. It rings true in how Julia's grief is described and how she cannot let go of the past and cannot get over the loss of her child.

I would highly recommend this author, who has also written two further books in this "Oland Quartet", I have read one, "The Darkest Room", another fantastic book , "The Quarry", I am on the hunt for and there is a further one, not yet translated into English. He has also written "The Asylum", not part of the Quartet, but another great read.

I hope there are many more books to come. Echoes from the Dead takes place on the Swedish island of Oland. The author makes you feel like you are actually there.

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His descriptions take you into the atmosphere of the town. This is not your typical mystery and the answers unravel slowly. I will read more books by this author. Acrescenta-se a falta de sentido de humor do autor e o enredo excessivamente descomplicado e temos um thriller sueco muito fraco. View all 6 comments. Dec 02, Jane rated it really liked it. Many years ago a small boy disappeared.

Now, twenty years on, the first piece of evidence has come to light. A new investigation begins. A simple story, but Johan Theorin builds on it very well indeed. She has never come to terms with her loss, never learned to live with it. She was already separated from her husband, and her refusal to accept that Many years ago a small boy disappeared. She was already separated from her husband, and her refusal to accept that her son must be dead has left her estranged her from her family and friends and unable to return to her job as a nurse.

She is in every way a woman alone. And she is utterly believable.


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Infuriating and understandable in equal measure. There is her father, Gerlof, struggling with the problems of old age and missing the respect and camaraderie he enjoyed in his working life. He calls his daughter, and a new investigation begins. Local people have alway blamed Nils Kant, a local man with a dark reputation, even though he was dead and buried before the child disappeared. That another body is buried in the graveyard.

That Nils Kant has returned. And so two stories are told.

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The second is the story of Nils Kant, of what lay behind the events that blackened his name, of what happened to him when he left his homeland. Both are complex human stories, and both are very well executed. And compelling — each time I stopped reading I was surprised at how many pages had gone by. The atmosphere is dark, the sense of place is palpable, and the construction of the story is oh so clever.

Particularly the conclusion, which comes quite naturally out of the story without ever feeling predictable.

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Ach menno, manchmal denke ich wirklich, man sollte Klappentexte verbieten, soviel Unsinn wie da verzapft wird. Wetten, dass wer immer dies auch geschrieben hat, lediglich die Inhaltsangabe gelesen hatte? Und zum Gruseln ist die ganze Geschichte nun sicherlich auch nic Ach menno, manchmal denke ich wirklich, man sollte Klappentexte verbieten, soviel Unsinn wie da verzapft wird. Und zum Gruseln ist die ganze Geschichte nun sicherlich auch nicht geeignet. Er bittet Julia, zu ihm zu kommen, um die Suche erneut aufzunehmen.

Gemeinsam mit zwei alten Freunden glaubt er zu wissen, wer hinter dem Verschwinden seines Enkels steckt: Zum einen begleitet man Julia und ihren Vater auf der Suche nach dem, was damals wirklich geschah. Und zum andern nimmt man teil am Leben von Nils Kant, der bereits als Kind den Tod seines kleinen Bruders verschuldete. Und weshalb nur vier Punkte?

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Weil es auch noch spannendere Krimis gibt: Aug 25, Lynn rated it it was amazing Shelves: I have found a new favorite author. I enjoyed Johan Theorin"s 1st book in the Oland series very much. A five year old boy disappears from the Oland Island southeast of Sweden. He was never found and his mother has been grieving for 20 years. His grandfather receives a sandal in the mail that looks like the sandal Jens was wearing on that day.

The grandfather Gerloft calls his daughter Julia to come to see him so they can resolve what happened to Jens. It was a very good mystery. I had to make mys I have found a new favorite author. I had to make myself not look ahead several times as I was eager to see what happened. This does not happen to me often. I did not have the full mystery resolved until the last several pages when the author revealed the story of what happened. I came to care for the characters of Julia and her father Gerloft. Her father was the main sleuth in the story. He was 80 years old and kept information close to his vest.

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Even though he was in poor health, he was persistent. His occupation had been as a sea captain. The location of Oland was as intriguing to me as the story was. It had fallen on hard times. In the past, private ownership vessels has worked out of the harbors. In later times, banks would not give out loans to the private owners. Oland had turned into a summer tourist community and very few people lived there in the winter months. The alvar which was bleak and isolated reminded me of the saltmarsh in Ellie Griffith's books. It was atmospheric to me. The book was translated to English but if it hadn't been mentioned on the cover, I wouldn't have known.

It flowed well and seemed like it had been originally written in English. This book was one of my best reads in and I plan on continuing with the next book. Mar 09, Kat Hagedorn rated it really liked it Shelves: And, actually, I have no idea how well written the original book was since this is a translation of a Swedish murder mystery.