Book description
Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia
Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years
previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever
been found.
Until his shoe arrives in the post. It has been sent to Julia's
father, a retired sea-captain still living on the island. Soon he and
Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that point
inexorably to a local man called Nils Kant, known to delight in the
pain of others. But Nils Kant died during the 1960s. So who is the
stranger seen wandering across the fields as darkness falls?
It soon becomes clear that someone wants to stop Julia's search for
the truth. And that he's much, much closer than she thinks . . .
Throughout his life,
Johan Theorin
has been a regular visitor to the Baltic Island of à Â-land. His
mother's family - sailors, fishermen and farmers - have lived there for
centuries, nurturing the island's rich legacy of strange tales and
folklore. A journalist by profession, Johan is currently working on the
third novel.
