Cold Spring
Mariette Lindstein
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Sweden: Pia & Co
Sjöhult is Hannas childhood paradise, the house has been in the family for over 150 year and is now resting in the dark, abandoned by a lake in the deepest forests of Småland. Once a place for joy and time together with friends and family. But everything changed during Easter eight years ago, a tragic accident no one wants to talk about. Hannas mother drowned, for some reason she was out on the ice of the lake, and she fell through and drowned, but was this really an accident. The family’s strange behavior after the accident has led Hanna to think that something was left out, but what?
In an attempt to try to understand what really happened that Easter, Hanna returns to Sjöhult. For her this day is totally black, ske can not recall any single memory from that day, it is all gone. Alone on Sjöhult, remote and isolated from the world around, during the coldest spring ever she starts to sense someones presence. Who is hiding in the shadows outside? Whose tracks is it that she can see in the snow? Could Hannas urge to once and for all find out what really happened in any way endanger her own life?
COLD SPRING is a suspense novel and a family drama in one. It is the first part in the Season suite where cult like family relations are being the center of the drama and is being investigated from all it’s angles.
312 Pages
Reviews:
”The big strength lies in the ability to, through something very personal, skilfully and readable depict something general: it is very seldom a good idea to try to bury the reality, it is wiser to lay it on the table and look it in the eyes. “ - Kapprakt
"At the same time that Mariette Lindstein has become more of a writer, a novelist in earnest and real. She is more skilled at writing, knows both what she wants to tell and how it should be told. Sometimes she can write a little from a distance, I think it is to keep the subject at bay, which here can also be described as sectarian life, but within the same family. A family that joins a sect. But I also think that works well, it becomes like extra content to the content. A keeping-away emphasis of what is depicted." - Deckarlogg, Bengt Erikson
