I purchased this book for my own personal collection.
Publisher: Harper
Published: January 10, 2023
Summary:
Detective Eira Sjodin, introduced in the electrifying Swedish crime thriller We Know You Remember, races to solve a disappearance that hits chillingly close to home in the second book in the High Coast series, hailed by People as “Nordic noir at its best.”
In the small mining town of Malmberget, north of the Arctic Circle, residents and their houses are being relocated. As the mine that built the town slowly swallows it street by street, building by building, the memories of the community have collapsed into the huge pit they call “the hole.” Only a few stubborn souls cling to their homes, refusing to leave. When two workers making their final preparations hear a sound coming from a basement, they break a cellar window and find a terrified man curled up in a corner.
In Ådalen, 700 kilometers away, police officer Eira Sjödin is investigating the disappearance of a man reported missing by his ex-wife. Eira and her colleagues search his apartment, contact his friends and relatives, and query local hospitals, but the man has vanished without a trace.
Eira knows the pain of loss—she mourns for her mother, whose mind has been stolen by dementia. To escape her loneliness and her memories, Eira loses herself in a casual affair. But she’s wholly unprepared when her feelings deepen for GG, who is twenty years her senior–and her boss.
When the diligent GG doesn’t show up for work two days in a row, Eira and her colleagues quickly realize that something is wrong—their boss has gone missing. In the dramatic second installment of the High Coast Series, Eira Sjödin finds herself at the mercy of an elusive perpetrator—and of a love she can no longer deny.
My thoughts:
This is the second book in a Scandinavian crime series and while I loved the first book, I thought this one was just ok. And that happens.
While we once again have a completely atmospheric setting, I felt that the story itself was all over the place. I really had a hard time following this one. It took a lot for me to keep reading this one and that is never the case with these types of books. There were a lot of characters in this one and maybe that is part of it and this is a translated book, though that has never been a problem for me in the past.
This is a more slow-burn type of read and we are once again with police officer Eira Sjodin. This time she is working with the Violent Crime Unit. I really like her character and even though she has a personal connection to the case she is working on, she doesn’t let that get in the way of her job.
Even though I didn’t love this one as much as the first book in the series, I am still eager to continue reading this series. I just hope the next book gets translated into English.
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