Theorin certainly knows how to create an eerie and creepy atmosphere and of course having set his book in Sweden the long dark nights help to build the chilling tension.
This is the second of a trilogy of stories set on the Swedish island of Oland. You don’t need to have read the first story, Echoes of the Dead, but we are sure after reading this you will want to.
'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it'. It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby.
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'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it'. It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point.
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The Darkest Room was written by Johan Theorin and published by Black Swan an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd
The Darkest Room has 480 pages
Yes it is part of Oland Quartet series
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