Evil and its tool of doom have something telluric about it. It seems as if Satan himself had a domain on Earth to carry out his evil plans.
This is the only way to explain that in Fjällbacka, a town in Camilla Lackberg and center of all his novels, dark events are repeated cyclically that overshadow the routine life of different generations since the seventeenth 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.
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