Every author of suspense can find a great plot grip in childhood fears turned into phobias that are hardly approachable. If you know how to handle the matter, you end up composing a psychological thriller as a mosaic of an imaginary shared by millions of potential readers. Because phobias have a morbid point when they are projected towards others, towards those characters faced with the same terrors that can paralyze us. Thus we find reading tension and a longing for a placebo and for improvement in the possible amiable final solution for some protagonists plunged into the darkness of their own fears.
Mari jungstedt, presented exclusively to Spanish readers by Maeva Editorial for more than a decade now, plays those keys like the virtuous pianist of the most sinister melodies. A very feminine virtuosity when it comes to a Nordic crime novel ... Karin Fossum, Camilla Lackberg o asa larsson I refer).
On this occasion, under that title converted into a sentence of the implicit thriller, she invites us to take the ferry to the island of Gotland, where she herself spends the summer and where she once again locates the corresponding plot, taking advantage of the claustrophobic notion of an island as large as it is lonely in middle of the Baltic.
The plot focuses on the discovery of the whereabouts of two missing girls, but the no less intense personal ramification of an already recurring Anders Knutas and Deputy Inspector Karin Jacobsson, both involved in a particular relationship that also leads them to the nihilistic hells of the city. depression, offers the novel a human counterweight as rarely occurs in the current crime novel.
Karin feels the strength and courage to discern the spooky case of the girls and is still holding her ground as Anders tries to make his way into that dark hole in his mind. But maybe it's just a facade, an appearance, Karin's need to think that she has everything under control and that she will be able to act quickly so that the girls do not suffer any harm and so that Anders finally comes out of the maddening labyrinth of depression.
On the other side of Karin's reality, without her even being able to suspect it, there is only evil. Only visiting that other side, the monstrous reflection of the world, cannot leave anyone unscathed.
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