I was lucky enough to receive an early reading copy of this book a few weeks ago (it's not released in the UK until the 3rd march).
I hadn't heard of the author before I received this book but I'm very willing to try a new author and got stuck in. the size of the book was a bit daunting to start with, knowing that I only had 4 weeks to read it in and it being over 550 pages long.
But I absolutely loved it. It is written by a Swedish crime writer who is trying to break through into the UK and I think this book is the one to do it. It had already been translated into 25 different languages and sold throughout 33 countries.
It tells the story of several families in Fjallbacka, a town in Sweden and how their lives are turned upside down when a small girl is found murdered. The novel has two stories that are told side by side and the book is constantly switching between past and present, but it doesn't get confusing at all. The only thing I did get a bit confused about was the fact there were a lot of characters for you to get your head round but this got easier as the story went on. I loved it because the murderer wasn't revealed until the last few pages and it was then that the two stories came together.
Apart from some of the character names and place names, you wouldn't know that it was written by a Swedish author and translated. The English was perfect and it fitted in to the crime genre perfectly.
The book is highly recommended and I can't wait to read the other books in the series.
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