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| Series:
Öland Quartet
| Category:
Fiction/Crime
| Publication:
2010 Spring
| Option publishers:
english-us/bantam rh
finnish/tammi
greek/orfeas
hebrew/kinneret-zmora
italian/mondadori
lithuanian/alma littera
portuguese (brazil)/record
russian/mir knigi
slovak/marencin
thai/sanskrit book
icelandic/uppheimar
japanese/hayakawa
turkish/dogan egmont
| Rights sold:
Danish/Lindhardt&Ringhof
Dutch/De Geus
English UK/Transworld
German/Piper
French/Albin Michel
Norwegian/Gyldendal
Polish/Czarne
Spanish and Catalan/Mondadori RH
| Agent:
Susanne Widén
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| Johan Theorin (Author) |
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| Swedish title: Blodläge |
Through the limestone in Öland shoots a dark red vein, which the workers in the quarry used to call “the level of blood”.
In old times people said that this was stale blood from the struggle between the trolls inside the stone and the elves who live on the plain ( “the alvar”).
Just recently luxurious villas have been built close to the quarry at Stenvik, and people from the mainland have moved in.
The new neighbours don’t seem to be getting along very well – there is jealousy and suspicion.
During this very spring (when the migrating birds are returning to Öland) the lives of a number of people living there will change for good.
Gerlof has left the home for old people and gone back to live in his cottage at Stenvik – he feels that this might be the last spring of his life. His peace of mind is disturbed when he finds and reads the diaries of his long dead wife.
One of his new neighbours is Vendela Larsson, who lives with her husband in the largest house. She grew up on Öland and has returned to the island haunted by a tragedy: her childhood farm was destroyed by a fire. As a child Vendela was convinced that the fire was started by the fairies, because the farm was in their way. During the course of A Place Of Blood, she finds out what really happened.
Per Morner, who has moved into the smallest of the houses by the quarry, gets a call from his old father who seems confused and says he needs help. Per drives over to the mainland to his father’s house in the middle of a pine forest. There he discovers that the house has been set on fire, and his father is lying close to the entrance, stabbed by a knife and mumbling about a strange man (or a troll, perhaps).
Both cases of murder and arson intersect throughout the novel.
This is the Spring-book in the Öland Quartet, and despite the stories of murder, revenge and illness there is also room for romance and love.
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