Blackwater

On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly twenty years, until the day Annie sees her grown daughter in the arms of one man she glimpsed in the forest that eerie midsummer night. Like Gorky Park and Smilla's Sense of Snow, Blackwater is a unique trhiller in which the hearts and minds of the characters are as strikingly compelling as the exotic northern landscape that envelops them. ** A woman and her six-year-old daughter discover a double homicide in a camping ground. The mother sees a boy running away, but he is not found and the crime is never solved. Eighteen years later the mother recognizes the boy as the man dating her daughter. By a Swedish writer, author of 17 novels, of which this is her first English translation. The book won the Swedish Crime Academy's award for the best crime novel of the year Startling In Its Revelations, Disturbing In Its Implications - A Thriller Of Gripping Intensity And Immense Literary Power. Two Violent Deaths In The Swedish Wilderness; The Hurried Flight Of A Sinister Stranger: Terrible Events Long Buried In Annie Raft's Memory - Until She Sees Her Daughter In The Arms Of The Man She Believes Responsible For The Killings...