The domestic thriller is in fashion. Authors like Shari lapena o Mattias Edvardson They give a good account of it. But just because it's fashionable doesn't mean it's avant-garde. In fact, the thing about behind-the-scenes suspense is actually an argument favored by many other authors. Because the phobias and philias that each person harbors in their home to indulge in as soon as they take off their coat, shoes and hat.
Mattias Edvarsson comes to literature to lift the rugs, air out the dirty laundry and awaken the unsettling feeling that the enemy may be inside the house. That in the best case. Because given the usual trust of blood ties, the discovery can manifest itself too late. From families with the best avenues to homes made into storm boxes, there may only be a stroke of bad luck, a double life or even a most unexpected turn that transforms the domestic refuge into an unexpected, bloodiest battlefield.
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A normal family
The normality. The uniform sensation of adjusting to moral standards and the stridencies that each one discovers in the creaking inner mechanism. Some are even surprised to have shared a Christmas Eve table with a brother-in-law who has just discovered a serial killer. Or worse, it sometimes happens that the brother with whom you shared games is really up to his eyebrows in a plot of corruption of volume and spine without counting on you to launder the 500 notes with good results. No one is exempt from surprise in the Family environment and between joke and anecdote on the table, each one keeps for himself that little secret that would end up breaking everything into a thousand pieces ...
Adam and Ulrika, a normal married couple, live with their eighteen-year-old daughter Stella in a pleasant area on the outskirts of Lund. On the surface, her life is perfect ... until one day that illusion is cut short when Stella is arrested for having brutally murdered a man almost fifteen years her senior. Her father, a respected Swedish church pastor, and her mother, a well-known criminal defense attorney, will have to rethink their ethical paradigm as they defend her and try to understand why she is the prime suspect in the crime. How far will they go to protect their daughter? Do you really know what it is like? And even more worrying: do they know each other?
An almost true story
The idea, the synopsis, the first pages ..., everything evokes Joel Dicker and Harry Quebert case. It is fair to admit it that way. But immediately the story takes on a very different rhythm and an approach that, although it partly uses the flashback resource as a trick and effect with which to engage the reader without remission, provides even greater sophistication to the complete delight of the reader.
Looking for a good story to tell is the desire of every writer or aspiring writer. Zack Levines is one of those who aims to tell the untold story, the million-dollar bestseller... Only he knows that he has it, he has the perfect plot, except for some setbacks.
Everything is in the past, in his youth. Already at that time, in 1996, Zack suspected to the writer that he was moving restlessly inside him. Together with other classmates he attends a Literary Creation course. Probably, the motivation of those three friends at that time was not the same. In fact, the imposing presence of Professor Li Karpe aroused more libido than metalinguistic concerns.
We go back to 2008, the starting point…, Zack already has the title of the novel, the cursor blinks after the word e of the title The innocent murderer, but can he tell it? and what is worse, he must follow the facts at face value or it would be worth hiding certain aspects. Even worse doubts assail you, after twelve years, do you miss something?
The 90s were those glorious years of partying and academic training, the balance that so many young people seek to achieve... Zack studied at the prestigious Lund University, in Sweden. And although he has fond memories of her, he knows it wasn't always all fun.
What's more, his creative gaps, those that make it impossible for him to close the plot of his novel, look to the worst days at that university ... But now he needs to know what those shadows are, those doubts about what really happened. Contacting friends is his only way out of the creative quagmire that begins to scratch Zack's most vital plot as well.
Everything revolves around Leo Stark, that writer who introduced you to the fascinating Li Karpe. He was the one who ended up leading them towards the blurred border between fiction and reality. Getting the four of them together now resembles a séance, or even an exorcization. The truth awaits you, with its icy open arms.
