The Darkest Room: Oland Quartet series 2

The Darkest Room: Oland Quartet series 2
ISBN-10
1409084248
ISBN-13
9781409084242
Series
The Darkest Room
Category
Fiction
Pages
369
Language
English
Published
2009-10-06
Publisher
Random House
Author
Johan Theorin

Description

'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it.' It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point. But their remote idyll is soon shattered when Katrine is found drowned off the rocks nearby. As Joakim struggles to keep his sanity in the wake of the tragedy, the old house begins to exert a strange hold over him. Joakim has never been in the least superstitious, but from where are those whispering noises coming? To whom does his daughter call out in the night? And why is the barn door for ever ajar? As the end of the year approaches, and the infamous winter storm moves in across Oland, Joakim begins to fear that the most spine-chilling story he's heard about Eel Point might indeed be true: that every Christmas the dead return...

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