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Hemmapappan Fergus kämpar för att vänja sig vid familjens nya liv i Stockholm efter en lång juristkarriär i Storbritannien. När sonen Alfie börjar prata något slags nonsensspråk avfärdar han det först som en reaktion på den nya situationen, någon form av regression. Hans fru Tess har fått ett drömjobb som VD för en framgångsrik startupfirma , och är för upptagen för att märka vad som händer hemma. Så småningom får Fergus veta att det året innan försvann en liten pojke i Alfies ålder från lägenheten de bor i. Pojkens mamma är för närvarande inlagd på en psykiatrisk avdelning. I allmänhetens ögon är det hon som ligger bakom sonens försvinnande, men hon har aldrig åtalats för något. Samtidigt som Alfies beetende allt mer spårar ur leder Fergus eftersökningar honom djupt in i en labyrint av hemligheter och lögner.
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Published June 20, 2019
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C.S. Duffy
30 books56 followersC.S. Duffy writes psychological suspense thrillers with a healthy dose of black humour.
Her background is in film and TV. She has several projects in development in Sweden and the UK, and her thriller feature Guilty will be shot in April 2018 in Canada. She is the author of Life is Swede, a psychological thriller that was originally written as a blog - leading several readers to contact Swedish news agencies asking them why they hadn’t reported the murder that features in the blog.
Claire also runs Hollywoodland, a series of podcasts about the pioneering female filmmakers of 1910s/20s Hollywood.
Her background is in film and TV. She has several projects in development in Sweden and the UK, and her thriller feature Guilty will be shot in April 2018 in Canada. She is the author of Life is Swede, a psychological thriller that was originally written as a blog - leading several readers to contact Swedish news agencies asking them why they hadn’t reported the murder that features in the blog.
Claire also runs Hollywoodland, a series of podcasts about the pioneering female filmmakers of 1910s/20s Hollywood.
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June 20, 2024
ابغى الموسم الثاني🙂
September 7, 2019
من الروايات اللي استمتعت بترجمتها
هتلاقوها موجودة على منصة ستوري تيل.. استمتعوا.
هتلاقوها موجودة على منصة ستوري تيل.. استمتعوا.
October 13, 2023
Honestly, I went into the story expecting something like S.L.Grey's The Apartment, so when the book turned out to be a detective mystery using ghost-like elements for story improvement, you can imagine how disappointed I was.
A family of three moves from Scotland to Stockholm, Sweden as the wife got a promising start a of a desperately needed new carrier.
The father volunteers to be a stay-at-home dad for their little toddler son.
Soon, he starts hearing childlike footsteps in the corridor even though his son is fast asleep in his room. Crayon drawings appear on the wall, but are way out of reach for his son to have drawn by himself. And a child is crying somewhere, but nobody else seems to hear it.
Soon he learns that the apartment was the scene of a crime: A child gone missing and a single mother being the main suspect. It's their voices he hears, so now all he has to do is to investigate what really happened that night.
The story starts really slowly with the supernatural elements holding the interest of the reader long enough for the story to unfold. But really, I never felt this to be a horror story at all. The longer I stayed the more I felt like those elements were only there because the author otherwise feared the story would be too boring. And really, every event those elements have triggered could have been set in motion by any other element found in more conventional mystery novels. It could have been a nice and refreshing twist on those usual stories if the supernatural elements were used with a bit more wits.
This is only book one of a series currently including two books, but even though the ending is open enough to spark interest, I don't think I'll finish the series.
A family of three moves from Scotland to Stockholm, Sweden as the wife got a promising start a of a desperately needed new carrier.
The father volunteers to be a stay-at-home dad for their little toddler son.
Soon, he starts hearing childlike footsteps in the corridor even though his son is fast asleep in his room. Crayon drawings appear on the wall, but are way out of reach for his son to have drawn by himself. And a child is crying somewhere, but nobody else seems to hear it.
Soon he learns that the apartment was the scene of a crime: A child gone missing and a single mother being the main suspect. It's their voices he hears, so now all he has to do is to investigate what really happened that night.
The story starts really slowly with the supernatural elements holding the interest of the reader long enough for the story to unfold. But really, I never felt this to be a horror story at all. The longer I stayed the more I felt like those elements were only there because the author otherwise feared the story would be too boring. And really, every event those elements have triggered could have been set in motion by any other element found in more conventional mystery novels. It could have been a nice and refreshing twist on those usual stories if the supernatural elements were used with a bit more wits.
This is only book one of a series currently including two books, but even though the ending is open enough to spark interest, I don't think I'll finish the series.
April 3, 2019
Så himla bra , kunde inte sluta att lyssna på den !!!!! Nu får man en annan syn på " barnlåtar " :)
January 18, 2019
Pretty good. Too bad it’s only on Storytel.
June 26, 2023
Keep checking to see if there is a 3 rd book to get translated
March 29, 2025
The ending was unexplained maybe it would get covered in Book 2. Overall okay. Liked the Swedish cultural nuances.
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