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Abuse and its Consequences … after Years … after Decades
Erica Falck moved in the family house in Fjällbacka after her parents died in a car crash. She left behind a flat in Stockholm which she sublet and continued to work at her new biography about a female writer with a deadline hovering about her. Books on this special subject mainly ensured her living so far.
Along to her writing she starts to clear up the house which brings back memories of her parents, of her childhood … Erica is still mourning over the recent loss.
One morning when it’s freezing cold outside Erica discovers a corpse together with a neighbor. It’s a woman lying naked in a bathtub, blood and water mixed and deeply frozen because in the house it’s bitterly cold, obviously no heating active since days. Erica knows her. It was one of her closest friends in childhood and during school. Then the family suddenly moved away. Erica was ten years old and deeply sad to lose her best friend. Since then she doesn’t remember to ever having met her again. Now she is dead, suicide at first glance, however, it’s murder.
Erica is curious and nosy. She starts digging here and there … along to her commissioned biography slowly the idea takes over to write a book about a true crime, the murder of her childhood friend. In the long run true crime fiction will become her main activity and she’ll be successful – more successful than with her biographies about female writers.
However, there is also the police and a special detective whom Erica also knows from her days as a teenager. Patrik Hedström got recently divorced and is happy when Erica is around. They get in touch, closer in touch … Of course they finally manage to live together, marry later, have children … And also they work at crime casesin Fjällbacka together – with this Patrik isn’t so happy because Erica likes to ignore situations and people being dangerous, dangerous to life.
Fjällbacka is a lovely village at the coast during summer brimming over with tourists. The all-year inhabitants know each other since generations and there are no secrets … at least there seem no secrets hidden in old family houses and widely branched families. However, there are corpses, there are murders, sometimes brutal and bloody events come to daylight after years or even decades.
In the past many a cause lies buried that suddenly provokes activities in the present leading very fast to bloody crimes up to murder. Evildoers in those days who got away with whatever crime always are anxious that someday somebody may reveal whatever that may lead to hidden crimes or at least unsolved crimes. Often parallel to the present events a story is told about what happened years and decades ago in order to finally link up past and present crimes.
Abuse is one the leading subjects in the cases – if concerning children, if wives … women in general. Situations marked by abuse lead to crime, to revenge, even to serial killers. In Erica’s family there is a case of abuse concerning her sister who will live through terror and violations by her husband until the marriage is at an end. Of course Erica is deeply involved in these events and also she is observant when abuse seems to be active.
In short: all the novels are suspense-packed and densely written leading the reader from recent crimes to stories from the past and the interaction and consequences of both.