Buried Angels by Camilla Lackberg

 

Synopsis :

Easter, 1974. A family vanishes without a trace from the island of Valö outside of Fjällbacka. The dinner table has been exquisitely set, but everyone except the one year-old daughter Ebba is gone. Are they victims of a crime or have they voluntarily disappeared?

Years later Ebba returns to the island and the old summer camp where her father ruled a boarding school with an iron hand. She and her husband Marten have recently lost their three year-old son, and in an attempt to overcome their grief they have decided to renovate the house and open a B&B.

They've barely settled in before they are subjected to an attempt of arson. And when they begin to remove the floor boards in the dining room, they find dried blood underneath ... 

This is what I say :

First of all, just to be clear, there's another title for this book which is The Angelmaker's Wife.  Also readers must be aware that the author is Swedish and this title was originally written in Swedish and subsequently translated to English.  Also, Although this is an independent title/story, it is the eighth book in the universe of Erica and Patrik.  As such, there's no so much character development to some of the main characters in the books especially friends, families and colleagues of Erica and Patrik as their background story would have been told over the other seven earlier titles.

I last read the earlier titles was when I kinda marathon over the titles over a few months about two years ago.  They were physical paper-bag version which I have since passed them onto a friend who also enjoys what Camilla writes.

I read Buried Angels and the subsequent titles The Ice Child as an e-book through my mobile devises.  I read Buried Angels over the weekend and took me about four days to finish all the chapters.  Camilla just gets better and better and while The Lost Boy will be my favourite title, Buried Angels is not far behind.  

As usual, Camilla surprised me plot and while certain storyline was quite easy to guess, especially on who 'G' was, the other storyline was quite unexpected.  I was quite exasperate with Erica as she can be over zealous in her curiosity and put herself and others in danger.  

All in all, it was a great re-introduction back to the work produced by Camilla Lackburg.