"A highly recommended, hard-hitting and emotionally beautiful crime thriller."
A hard-hitting punch of a crime thriller is waiting to be discovered, but also within the pages lies a provocative and emotionally stunning read too. This debut was the winner of the 2018 Swedish Academy of Crime Writers’ Award, and believe me, I can completely understand why. Lelle has been driving the silver road looking for his missing daughter for three years, his endless search consumes his very being. Within the first page I knew I had fallen in love with the writing, which is exquisitely translated. The words connected with my very being, I could feel the words, look around me and see my surroundings. Stina Jackson balances the dark and light quite beautifully, while tense and foreboding, there is also a silvery thread of hope to be found that thrums gently in the background. The cover of The Silver Road beckons, it leads to a read that emotionally connects, opens feelings and allows access to thoughts. Oh, and that ending… the ending sent goosebumps shivering down my arms. A highly recommended read indeed and one of my picks of the month.
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Three years ago, Lelle's daughter went missing in a remote part of Northern Sweden. Lelle has spent the intervening summers driving the Silver Road under the midnight sun, frantically searching for his lost daughter, for himself and for redemption. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Meja arrives in town hoping for a fresh start. She is the same age as Lelle's daughter was - a girl on the brink of adulthood. But for Meja, there are dangers to be found in this isolated place. As autumn's darkness slowly creeps in, Lelle and Meja's lives are intertwined in ways, both haunting and tragic, that they could never have imagined.
The Silver Road features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Debut Books of the Month, Debuts, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Star Books, Fiction in translation, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations, General Fiction, Fiction: special features
The Silver Road is available in , Paperback, CD-Audio, Hardback, Ebook
The Silver Road was written by Stina Jackson and published by Corvus an imprint of Atlantic Books
The Silver Road has 344 pages
£8.99
