Thursday, June 30, 2016

The Ice Child

Patrick Hedstrom has been called to the hospital because a missing girl has been found.  She was struck on the highway by a car.  The injuries suffered in the accident aren't the only injuries.  She has also had her tongue severed and her eyes removed.  Sadly, the girl dies in the hospital.  Now, Hedstrom and his team need to find out the background to her injuries.

Is this case related to the cases of four other missing girls?

Meanwhile, Hedstrom's wife, Erica Falck, is researching her own mystery for a future book.  Unfortunately she isn't having any luck with her research, so she decides to start her own investigation into the missing girls.  This angers Hedstrom, but he allows it to continue because in the past Erica's help had contributed to the successful conclusion of a few cases.

Erica's research into her book leads her to question the possibility that what she is learning might be connected to the missing girls.  Things suddenly change when a mother and daughter go missing.  They had been close to the girl who had been killed in the automobile accident.

Author Camilla Lackberg starts this thriller off slowly, but the pace builds up with the reader fearing that more girls will suffer a similar fate.  The climax is unexpected and surprising, with a little twist at the end.  An excellent read, hard to put down.

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