the ice princess camilla lackberg series

Firstly she invests heavily in her characters, Erica and Patrik come fully formed off the page foibles and all. You might be thinking this sounds very like a lot of other thrillers, be they cold crime or not, out there however Lackberg does several things that make this different. The light from the torch made her feel a bit calmer. She thankfully remembered the torch in her coat pocket and said a silent prayer that the batteries were good. Her fear of the dark made it hard for her to breathe, and she forced herself to take some deep breaths to calm her nerves. It was eerie stepping into the shadowy house. It soon dawns on Erica that Alex may not have committed suicide at all, but who would want to kill her? Subsequently local detective in charge of the case Patrik Hedstrom is coming to the same conclusion and it looks like something from Alex’s past has returned to haunt her, but what and why? In doing so Erica starts to discover that the perfect life Alex had created wasn’t all that she made people believe and that there were many secrets in her past.

The bonds have not been forgotten by Alex’s parents who, as Erica is a semi-successful writer of biographies and has become a small celebrity in Fjallbacka, ask her to write about their daughter. Erica and Alex’s friendship had however waned after Alex suddenly stopped speaking to her before leaving in her pre-teens. Upon her return to her hometown following the death of her parents, Erica Falck begins to feel that death and tragedy might be following her when her childhood friend Alex is found dead in the bath with her wrists slashed. Harper Books, paperback, 2008, fiction, 400 pages, borrowed from my mate Barb

The ice princess camilla lackberg series