There’s nothing like a good thriller to keep readers on the edge of their sun loungers over the holiday season and The Gingerbread House by Carin Gerhardsen is perfect for those who love a novel that tests their own detection skills.
In this all-absorbing novel, Ingrid Olsson returns home from a Stockholm hospital to discover a man in her kitchen. She’s never seen the intruder before. But he’s no threat – he’s dead.
Criminal Investigator Conny Sj?berg takes the call, abandoning his wife ?sa and their five children for the night. His team identify the body as that of a middle-aged family man but why was he there? And who bludgeoned him to death?
There’s nothing like a good thriller to keep readers on the edge of their sun loungers over the holiday season and The Gingerbread House by Carin Gerhardsen is perfect for those who love a novel that tests their own detection skills.
In this all-absorbing novel, Ingrid Olsson returns home from a Stockholm hospital to discover a man in her kitchen. She’s never seen the intruder before. But he’s no threat – he’s dead.
Criminal Investigator Conny Sj?berg takes the call, abandoning his wife ?sa and their five children for the night. His team identify the body as that of a middle-aged family man but why was he there? And who bludgeoned him to death?Lacking suspect and motive, Sj?berg’s team struggle until they link the case to another – apparently random, killing. And discover they face a serial killer on a terrible vendetta...
This gripping novel with many twists, explores schoolyard bullying among children and the effect it has on them when people look the other way.
Many of the scenes in this book are based on Gerhardsen’s own childhood and therefore carry the weight of authenticity.
It is yet another top tale to come out of the Nordic stable of writers who know how to keep their readers engrossed – pop it under the Christmas tree for the literary sleuth in your family.
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The Gingerbread House
By Carin Gerhardsen
Penguin Group (NZ)
Available at all good bookstores
RRP $37.00
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