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Title: Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman, Joan Tate ISBN: 0-312-15247-7 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 15 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An astonishing and terrifying thriller
Comment: This is a must-read.
Blackwater is a beautifully plotted thriller. It does what all good thrillers should do: it uses the mystery of a brutal crime to explore deeper, darker mysteries.
I came to the book having read Ekman's The Forest of Hours, a novel which shares with Blackwater an obsession with time, memory and survival. Above all, Kerstin Ekman evokes the forces of nature with exquisite detail and passion. She is a writer of stature. We need more of her novels in English.
Rating: 3
Summary: Smilla meets Snow Falling...
Comment: It is lazy of me to make such an obvious comparison but this book reminded me of both Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow and Snow Falling On Cedars.
It has the same sense of place as Peter Hoeg's novel and the way is captures the feel of the Scandanavian landscape and people is wonderfully evocative.
At the same time it is a rather gripping whodunnit a la David Guterson's book and the combination of the two makes this a wonderful and gripping read.
One criticism which another of other reviewers here have flagged up is the translation. I am no expert on this stuff but at times I was very aware that I was reading a translation (and therefore an interpretation) of the original work and some passages were stilted and didn't flow as much as others. Obviously this may be the case in the original language but I wouldn't have thought so. I found myself reading some passages two or three times as they didn't make sense immediately.
Nonetheless it is a novel worth the effort and I would like to read more of her work in English.
Rating: 4
Summary: Macabre Look Into the Human Psyche
Comment: A young man and woman are brutally stabbed to death in their tent while camping in beautiful surroundings beside a river in the mountains of Sweden. Though a number of people were in the area at the time, no one has apparently seen or knows anything and the crime remains unsolved for years.
Bleak, slow moving who-done-it style mystery sent in a remote area of Sweden, this book is a compelling read because of its characters. As well as being a complex crime novel, an intricate puzzle with clues to be picked up along the way, this is also a psychological thriller exploring the depths of human depression. The theme of this story is loneliness & being the outsider - Johan is an outsider in his own family, the Starhill community is apart from the regular country people, Annie is outside the school community she teaches in, the Lapps are outside mainstream Swedish society, and Birger is the ultimate symbol of aloneness.
This was my 2nd reading of this novel and was most helpful, the novel is so disjointed with several plot lines that this time I noticed so many more clues along the way. Events take place over years, eventually the different threads come together. I really enjoyed this book but more because of the all too realistic characters & the vivid detailed descriptions of the landscape than the actual crime plot.
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Title: The Terra-Cotta Dog: An Inspector Montalbano Mystery by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli ISBN: 0142002631 Publisher: Penguin USA (Mm) Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Witches' Rings by Kerstin Ekman, Linda Schenck ISBN: 1870041364 Publisher: Dufour Editions Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri, Stephen Sartarelli ISBN: 0142002399 Publisher: Penguin USA (Mm) Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Firewall by HENNING MANKELL ISBN: 1400031532 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Death At La Fenice by Donna Leon ISBN: 0061043370 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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