“The island’s darkest secrets and techniques rise as soon as extra…”Lidingö Mysteries  #2

This novel is the second in a criminal offense collection set on Lidingö, an island within the internal Stockholm archipelago, northeast of Stockholm, Sweden. I used to be fairly stunned to find that Emma Lindahl and Karl Rosén, the 2 fundamental characters from the primary novel, “Yuletide Island”, weren’t featured on this one. This trip the protagonists had been Swedish policeman Kommissarie Aleksander Storm, a married father of two teenage ladies, and former Police Commisioner Maïa Rehn, who has lately moved to Stockholm from Paris, after shedding her daughter in a automotive accident.

Somebody is murdering youngsters. The kids are dressed by the assassin in an outfit that’s the garb of St. Lucia, an essential determine in Swedish custom. Twenty-three years beforehand, a teenage woman, Jenny Dalenius, was killed and she or he too was dressed as St. Lucia. Now, two sixteen yr outdated boys have been murdered simply days from one another, carrying the St. Lucia gown and headdress. One was heterosexual and beloved soccer, the opposite was homosexual and the son of Lidingö’s main. Apart from the strategy of their homicide, the police discover it tough to hyperlink the 2…

 “Everybody is aware of mannequin households are essentially the most dysfunctional of all.”

Like “Yuletide Island”, this novel was set in late autumn and winter. The chilly was palpable, and the stress slowly ramped up, making it a wonderful, nicely written, suspenseful learn.

Secrets and techniques, scandals, and vengeance abound. The novel explores such agonizing topics as parental grief, suicide, and rape.

The title of this novel matches the e-book completely. The beautiful cowl alludes to the costume worn by St. Lucia.

Extremely advisable to these readers who take pleasure in thrillers that serve readers with a visceral punch, an atmospheric setting, and a few unforgettable characters and scenes. “Scars Of Silence” was a fast-paced, chilling, gripping, emotional, and memorable novel which I extremely suggest. A stellar instance of Scandi Noir.

This assessment was written voluntarily and my ranking was by no means influenced by the truth that I acquired a complimentary digital copy of this novel from Orenda Books by way of Anne Cater of Random Issues Excursions. Publication date: November 6, 2025

ISBN: 9781916788923 – ASIN: ‎ B0FWJ9NY47 – 300 pages

Born in Marseille, France, and with a level in Political Science, Johana Gustawsson has labored as a journalist for the French and Spanish press and Her critically acclaimed Roy & Castells collection, together with Block 46, Keeper and Blood Music, has received the Plume d’Argent, Balai de la découverte, Balai d’Or and Prix Marseillais du Polar awards, and is now printed in nineteen nations. A TV adaptation is at present below approach in a French, Swedish and UK co-production. The Bleeding was a number-one bestseller in France and is the primary in a brand new collection. Johana lives in Sweden together with her Swedish husband and their three sons.

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David Warriner grew up within the UK and escaped to Quebec after graduating from Oxford. Knowledgeable translator for greater than twenty years, David nurtures a ardour for fiction in French and has translated a spread of fiction, nonfiction, and kids’s fiction by authors based mostly in Quebec and France for Canadian and UK publishers. David has labored in France and Quebec and now lives in British Columbia, Canada.