The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg


Synopsis :

 Christian Thydell’s dream has come true. His debut novel, The Mermaid, has been published to rave reviews. So why is he as distant and unhappy as ever?

When crime writer Erica Falck, who helped Christian discover and develop his talents, learns he has been receiving anonymous threats, she investigates not just the messages but also the young author mysterious past. Then, one of Christian’s closet friends, Magnus, goes missing.

Erica’s husband, Detective Patrik Hedström, has his worst suspicions confirmed as the mind-games aimed at Christian become a disturbing reality. Christian's group of friends—a “gang of four” from childhood—is a tangled web of relationships, love triangles, and family secrets that Erica and Patrick must unravel in order to discover what really happened to Magnus and who is still threatening Christian.

But, with the victims themselves concealing evidence, the investigation is going nowhere. Is their silence driven by fear or guilt? What is the secret they would rather die to protect than live to see revealed? 
This is what I say :

 Oh my....what is wrong with me?  I actually read this book and totally forgot all about it.  I can't even find this copy at home until I realised that I have sold it to a friend! hahah...and all of these escape my mind for the past month.

 Anyway, The Drowning is the last copy that I have in this fictional universe and right after this would be The Lost Boy which was the first book that I read.  So basically the ending of The Drowning will lead to the beginning of The Lost Boy.

 Storywise, The Drowning was just pretty standard Camilla Lackberg style.  It would not have been a story if not for the interference of Erica into something that honestly in my opinion, doesn't concern her.  With her being in the final trimester of pregnancy, I think she should just take it easy instead of investigating things that doesn't want to be investigated.

 On another note, it was a rather sad story and one can't feel sorry for the antagonist.

 Overall, it was a good story as it's the last that I have of Camilla Lackberg in my collection, I am trying to be generous here :).  So until I get myself more titles of Camilla Lackberg, this would be the last that you heard of her here. :)






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