The Book Collector

Books are dreams on paper that take the reader where he or she needs to get to...

Twenty-three-year-old Jossan has fled her troubled past and moved to Stockholm to live life. When her savings run out, she takes a temporary job as a waitress in a tourist restaurant, but months pass and she is left behind, with no plans for the future. One day she is summoned to Tage Hallberg's funeral home - the loner Henry, the restaurant's strangest guest, has bequeathed his estate to her. The family lawyer does not know why Jossan has inherited, but he gives her a thick envelope, the contents of which are supposed to shed light on the mystery.
In the very first sentence of the letter, Henry claims to be a close relative; Jossan doesn't have time to read much more before the letter goes astray. She wants to dismiss the man's baseless claims, but that is impossible. She needs to know what's going on. To help her unravel the past, she enlists the help of Tage, but also Dante, the guy in the antiquarian bookshop she has sought out to sell some of the dusty old books she has inherited. The search for the truth leads Jossan on a winding journey of discovery and the more she learns about Henry and his life, the more transformative the story becomes.

Is everything she thought about herself and her background a lie? And is she prepared to pay the price that the truth can cost?

The Book Collector is a novel about unexpected friendship and how it is always possible to rise from the past and choose a new, brighter tomorrow.