'When the film begins she has no idea what she is about to see. Nor does she realise what devastating consequences this film and the decisions she then makes will have on the rest of her life.' The body of a young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in an innocuous Swedish suburb. Alex Recht and his team in the Stockholm Police soon identify the body as belonging to missing student, Rebecca Trolle, but as his team continues to excavate the site, they soon find that someone has been returning to the same spot to bury their victims year after year, decade after decade. Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman is assigned the task of delving into Rebecca's private life. But little does she know that her enquiries are about to uncover evidence that will put her actions under scrutiny from Internal Affairs, and will throw her private life into turmoil. And what does the case have to do with the elderly children's author living in a care home... who has never spoken a word to anyone since she arrived years ago? Kristina Ohlsson has already sold more than 830,000 copies worldwide. Now discover for yourself what makes her Sweden's favourite crime writer.
The Disappeared - Fredrika Bergman, Book 3
Kristina Ohlsson
"Disappeared" is the third book in the "Fredrika Bergman & Alex Recht" series and brings another horrifying case to the Criminal Investigation Division team. The story is narrated in third person, just like the previous two books, but it has a differential from the outset: excerpts from the team's interrogations, which makes it clear that the results of this particular investigation will cause great disruption to the team. The beginning of the book is called "Past - Premiere" where a woman of unknown identity finds a murder movie that was apparently filmed in the gazebo of her parents' house. In identifying the masked man in the shoot, "she" makes a drastic decision. Soon after the reader is taken to the present, which takes place in 2009, when a man walking the dog, who begins to excavate the site and comes across a corpse. Quickly the body is identified. The victim is Rebecca Trolle, a college girl who mysteriously disappeared two years earlier, with Alex one of the lead investigators. The team went through some tough times in the previous book and this is the first case after months of leave that Alex will lead. Also, Frederika is now a mother and has a baby to take care of, so she hasn't returned to work in full and Peder is for the first time putting her life on track. As the team tries to retrace Rebecca's last steps, they need to re-examine the main investigation and one name keeps repeating itself: Hakan Nilsson. Nilsson was a student who stuck to Rebecca, who actively participated in the search two years earlier and who has a peculiar behavior. Everything points to him as the prime suspect. But the situation gets complicated when Frederika begins to investigate Rebecca's academic life and Spencer's name comes up. Spencer, his daughter's father and current companion, who is currently having trouble at the University where he works and keeping Frederika's secrets ... Rebecca's record was impeccable: a good daughter, the first in the family to attend college, volunteer in various causes, sang in the church choir. There is nothing to indicate trouble in your life but a terrible rumor that began to circulate shortly after your disappearance. "She kept standing in the hall for a long time after hanging up the phone. It would never be free. Certain debts could never be settled. Simple as that." (p. 42) The only thing that stands out in Rebecca's life is the subject of her dissertation: Thea Aldrin, a famous children's book writer in the 1960s, who was convicted of killing her husband and is still suspected of killing her own son. Thea is currently in an asylum and has not spoken a single word since the day she was arrested. As in previous books, the plot is very well written and developed so that the reader sticks to the details provided during the investigation, thus trying to find the culprit. The central theme of this third book has a heavier theme and an unexpected outcome. "She still felt sick when she remembered his appearance when he left her, after holding her prisoner for twenty-four hours: clearly content with herself and what she had accomplished." (p. 89)
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