The 3 best books by Camilla Läckberg

The Nordic crime novel has in Camilla Lackberg to one of its strongest pillars. Thanks to Camilla and a handful of other authors, this detective genre has carved a well-deserved niche on the world scene. It will be for the good work of Camilla and others like the ill-fated Larson, whose legacy of the Millenium saga follow their own life, and all of them influenced by the great Maj Sjowall. But it will also be because of that exotic and esoteric point of the countries of long nights and endless days ...

Of course, in the case of my friend Camilla, recurring Fjällbacka scenario, in the southwest of Sweden, serves as a base for almost all of his literary proposals. And this location always works, as it becomes a kind of literary summer town to which we always want to return even if it gives us goosebumps. Camilla does it and it is also common in many others such as the enormous Stephen King with Maine or even as Vázquez Montalbán did it with Barcelona.

The point is that Camilla is one more exponent, currently one of the most powerful if we focus only on her country, Sweden. A woman with extensive professional training but who abandoned everything when she was able to dedicate herself completely to writing. 12 very interesting novels contemplate her from her many other years of dedication. And it is my turn to propose the ...

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Camilla Läckberg

The mentalist

It never hurts to lend a hand with other authors to look for synergies and explore new narrative paths. Even more so when Camilla decided to write a story like this with that point between esoteric and always disconcerting as mentalism. And about that, his assistant in this story knows a lot about mentalism, a Henri Fexeus who delves into fiction at the hands of Lackberg after surprising locals and strangers alike with his work «Reload», a self-help style from a lucky cognitive enhancement...

In an amusement park on the outskirts of Stockholm, the body of a young woman murdered in a macabre way appears: pierced by multiple swords inside a box.

The reserved and methodical police officer Mina Dabiri is part of the special investigation team that takes charge of the case. When Mina exhausts all possible clues, she turns to renowned mentalist Vincent Walder to help them spot clues that could connect the murder to the world of illusion.

With the appearance of a new body, Mina and Vincent realize they are up against a ruthless serial killer and begin a thrilling race against time to crack the numerical codes and visual traps of a brilliant and wicked mind. An exciting journey to the darkest part of the human soul that will not leave any reader indifferent.

mirage

There was a time when readers questioned Lackberg's inspiration. And perhaps that is why this author has sought reinforcement, two new hands and shared imaginaries. There are already several scenarios shared with Henrik Fexeus and their meetings are always convenient, successful, capable of new intrigues with twists surely refined between both until the greatest surprise...

Christmas is approaching in Stockholm and the city is filled with lights. But something sinister is about to happen: at the same time that a member of the Swedish ministry is being threatened in a macabre way, a pile of mysterious-looking bones is found on the city's abandoned subway tracks, and everything indicates that They belong to a major financier.

Investigator Mina Dabiri and her colleagues in the Homicide department, still in shock after the tragic events of last summer, will be put to the test again. When clues begin to run out, Mina decides to turn to mentalist Vincent Walder. He, in turn, fights tirelessly against his own demons. What or who are hiding in the tunnels deep in Stockholm? And, most importantly, for what reason?

Silver wings

The best installment of the Faye series. After specific incursions that may have been due to editorial mismatches on her arrival in Spain or creative deflections of the author herself. And Faye, of course, is no longer the same. Despite this, the contrast formula is repeated in some way in this sequel. Because we are once again at a peak of the leading role, at least commercially. But of course, now the thing is to cover such black holes of the past. The typical delivery that summarizes everything in a sum of frenetic intertwined suspense.

Faye leads a new life in a town in Italy. Her Revenge company is going from strength to strength and her ex-husband is in jail. But just when he thinks everything is back to normal, his little bubble of happiness is threatened again when he discovers that someone is trying to ruin the dream he has fought so hard for.

The ghosts of the past still seem very close and ready to take away everything that is yours. Faye has to return to Stockholm to save what she loves most. She also makes a trip to Madrid, a wink to the readers of our country, which the author loves.

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cuckoo's nest

According to the most staunch fans of the Fjallbacka saga, Camilla Lackberg should never have escaped from that narrative scenario with which she captivated millions of readers. She may or may not agree. But the truth is that her return is like that return to the place where you left so many things pending. The return home, dark house, ends up being rewarding in its noir side.

After five years since The Witch, finally the long-awaited new installment of the Fjällbacka series. Two terrible events without a logical connection shake Fjällbacka. They find a famous photographer brutally murdered in an exhibition hall, and in the house of the supposed winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, on a small island where the writer is finalizing his new book, a bloody tragedy occurs.

Patrik Hedström and his colleagues from the Tanumshede police station make no progress in investigating the cases, while Erica Falck investigates the murder of a transgender woman in Stockholm in the 1980s. Little by little, Erica realizes that the threads of the past are connected to the present and that old sins leave long shadows. A novel as chilling as it is exciting.

The witch

Evil and its tool of doom has something telluric about it. It seems as if satan himself has domains on Earth to execute his evil plans. This is the only way to explain why in Fjällbacka, Camilla Läckberg's town and the center of all her novels, dark events are cyclically repeated that cast a shadow over the routine life of different generations since the XNUMXth century.

What I mentioned before regarding possible telluric forces from which evil emerges, may make complete sense considering the geographical location of Fjällbacka, deep within the jaws of the Scandinavian peninsula, as about to be devoured by some kind of capricious monster. geographical.

For the author, her town is a vein in order to exploit it as the center of her mysteries and thrillers. A charming town that currently combines fishing and tourism and that in its apparent tranquility offers that disturbing point of those who expect the scare or the macabre event.

In this gigantic novel, by volume and by development of the plot, we start with the disappearance of little Linnea. Her parents are devastated, the earth seems to have swallowed their 4-year-old girl. From this point Camilla composes a great narrator structure, Ken Follet only in Noir version.

And the truth is that the set is a brutal success. Traveling through a changing temporal scenario, through which clues are offered to a chronology of events that can explain this evil rooted in Fjällbacka, is a privilege for a reader who knows himself well above the characters, who is finding clues that could guide the inhabitants of the place.

But of course the novel also makes us doubt our own discoveries in those links between the seventeenth century, the end of the twentieth century and today. A novel that despite its plot packaging and its various ramifications knows how to keep the reader absolutely connected. More than 600 pages for one of the great thrillers of recent years.

Truth or Dare

Sometimes Camilla dresses up as Agatha Christie and he launches himself, an open grave, into presenting us with thrillers with splashes of blood between lights that suddenly go out before each murder. Then there is the deduction between secrets, suspicious looks, motives for the crime, time running out and so many factors on which to build the final twist. And without going so far as to rewrite the ten little blacks, we end up discovering a hypnotic plot.

Four friends… Last night of the year. Teenagers Liv, Martina, Max and Anton have been best friends for years. The four of them are eager to celebrate this New Year's Eve together, having fun, drinking and flirting, while spying on their parents in the neighboring house.

Four secrets... But they are no longer children: you have to take risks and break the rules. And they start playing. First to Monopoly; then to Truth or Dare. The party gets louder and the stakes get higher and higher. Apparently they have it all, but behind the perfect facade there are secrets they have never shared. Each of them hides something that the innocent game will bring to light and reveal a shocking truth.

An endless night. Nothing will ever be the same. And not everyone will arrive at the stroke of midnight…

A golden cage

I do not know when Tarantino and Camilla Lackberg for the writer to consider this sequel to the movie "Kill Bill" by the always surprising American director. Or at least, qualifying the previous exaggeration, that can come off the idea of ​​the fiercest protagonist in search of revenge without limits or moral filters.

Because Faye was very comfortable in her newly won comfort zone; in his idyllic life approach with a partner he loves; in a central Stockholm apartment from which he had made a comfortable home like never before in his life. Because it is true that the Faye of the novel's opening moment has little to do with the Faye who moved on the wild side of life, as Lou Reed would say. Except that we anticipate that information without knowing it with the necessary precision.

But that yesterday can be the perfect tool for when you paint coarse. Because together with Jack, life is peering into unexpected nooks and crannies, into dark spaces where good old Faye never expected to find herself ...

What is clear is that if she once survived what came to her and herself in the hard days of childhood in Fjällbacka, by now she can overcome anything. It is only necessary to recognize the limit, that point of no return to which she is being irretrievably led, deception and lies, far beyond any other sensations that were making her make sure that behind the luxury was the peeling tinsel of a doomed relationship failure.

When the time comes, Faye will have to overcome the misery in which she will be plunged. And, as much as we may disagree, revenge is food to move on, hatred can push to continue to lay life in an emptied soul. Between being destroyed or destroyed, Faye will choose the second option. And neither Jack nor anyone else will be prepared for the crudest and scariest revenge ever conceived.

Women who do not forgive

Having somewhat parked his criminal saga around the Swedish village of Fjällbacka, (reconverted to a first-rate tourist spot thanks to precisely the reiteration of its scenario by this author), Camilla seems even more freed from the typical plot debts. So before the unleashed genius, we can only enjoy new novels in whose plots we can expect everything.

On this occasion, we enter a kind of poetic justice or at least victory or pyrrhic compensation in the face of a fact as disgustingly real as criminal machismo. Because when a person is pushed into despair, anything can happen ...

Ingrid, Victoria and Birgitta are three very different women. For the rest of the world, they lead seemingly perfect lives, but all three have something in common: they secretly suffer the tragedy of living in subjection to their husbands. Until one day, pushed to the limit, they plan, without even knowing each other, the perfect crime.

The lighthouse watchers

From my point of view, this is the fundamental novel to enjoy Camilla's great creative capacity. A story that mixes certain doses of terror with a gripping enigma. A game of shadows and half-truths through which the lives of Erica and Patrick slide.

The old lighthouse, a space condemned in advance by all the inhabitants of the area, given its sinister nature, becomes the typical claustrophobic scene that as soon as it seems to keep you locked up but that, when you open the door, you refuse to leave ... Patrik has returned to work, Erica is fully dedicated to her twins, who were born prematurely.

He barely has time to visit Annie Wester, a high school classmate who has just returned to Fjällbacka after many years. Together with her son Sam, Annie has settled in the abandoned lighthouse on the island of Gråskär, owned by her family.

Despite the rumors that circulate in the town about the legend of the «island of spirits"In which the dead roam free, he doesn't seem to mind the strange voices he hears at night. In addition, her former boyfriend Matte Sverin, who has also spent a few years in Stockholm and has just started working at the Fjällbacka City Hall, is found murdered.

Annie is the last person to see him alive. These events will give Patrik and his effective collaborator Paula many headaches. For her part, Erica, who is conducting her own investigation in parallel, will be able to tie up some loose ends that will be of great help in solving the case.

The gaze of angels

Loss and absence can already support a sinister, fatal worldview. Some characters immersed in this process towards oblivion or madness decide to lose everything, even themselves.

But sometimes the evil is insistent, showing that not all are fatal coincidences but something worse. After the accidental death of their young son, Ebba and Mårten move to the island of Valö to rebuild their lives. There, they settle on a farm where Ebba's family lived many years ago. But tragedy continues to stalk them, and a fire, clearly caused, brings out the sinister history that weighs on the farm.

Thirty years ago the entire Ebba family disappeared without a trace. Only she was saved, then a one-year-old baby, who was found alone in the house. From that moment, he receives a mysterious greeting on his birthday, signed with a simple G ... Patrik opens an investigation, and Erica, always in search of narrative material, begins to pull the thread of the farm's story on her own. An impulsive act by Anna, Erica's sister, still affected by the loss of the baby she was expecting, will suddenly reveal the truth.

Snowstorm and scent of almonds

Camilla's latest novel, so far, has the added attraction of this suggestive name, a title designed for contrast, as we already know that little of a homely and peaceful Christmas can be found… Less than a week to Christmas.

Framed between a background of gray rocks and a sea of ​​ice, with its wooden houses covered by snow, Fjällbacka presents a picture of a postcard. Martin Molin, Patrik Hedström's young assistant policeman, travels to an island off the coast of Fjällbacka to spend the Christmas holidays with his girlfriend's wealthy family.

In the midst of a strong storm, Rubén, the grandfather and patriarch of the family, possessor of an immense fortune, dies under strange circumstances. Martin can smell the subtle aroma of bitter almonds in the air, a clear indication of poisoning. Restless and isolated, the guests will have to wait for the storm to subside.

The book also contains four independent short stories set in the constellation of Fjällbacka and its characters.