STENHUGGAREN – THE STONE CUTTER
By Camilla Läckberg
THE REMOTE RESORT of Fjällbacka has seen its share of tragedy, though perhaps none worse than that of the little girl found in a fisherman’s net. But this was no accidental drowning.
LOCAL DETECTIVE PATRIK Hedström has just become a father. It is his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of a child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
WHAT HE DOESN’T know is how the case will reach into the dark heart of Fjällbacka and tear aside its idyllic façade, perhaps forever.
ABOUT THE BOOK
First published by Forum, Sweden 2005
RIGHTS SOLD TO
Albania, Botimet Dudaj
Arabic, Storytel
Brazil, Planeta
Bulgaria, Colibri
Bulgaria, Storytel
Canada, HarperCollins Canada
Catalonia, Ara Llibres
China, Storytel
Croatia, V.B.Z.
Czech Republic, Motto/Albatros
Denmark, People’s Press
Estonia, Fookus Meedia
Finland, Schildts/Gummures
France, Actes Sud
Germany, G. Kiepenheuer/Ullstein
Greece, Metaixmio
Hungary, Animus
Iceland, Sogur
Israel, Modan
Italy, Marsilio Editori
Japan, Shuei Sha
Latvia, Jumava
The Netherlands, House of Books
Norway, Gyldendal
Poland, J Santorski/Czarna Owca
Portugal, Asa Leya
Romania, Editura Trei
Russia, Eksmo
Serbia, Nordiq
Slovakia, Slovart
Slovenia, Ucila International
Spain, Maeva
Sweden, Forum
Sweden, Månpocket (Paperback)
Sweden, Bonnier Audio (Audio Book)
Sweden, E-lib (E-book)
Sweden/The Netherlands, Grote Letter (Swedish Large Print)
Turkey, Dogan Egmont
UK, HarperCollins
US, Pegasus
AWARDS
Nominated for the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award by the Swedish Crime Academy, 2005
FILM RIGHTS
Sweden, SVT (TV rights)
GRAPHIC NOVEL
France, Casterman
REVIEWS
Camilla Läckberg has taken her place among the Swedish crime writing elite, and she’s here to stay. Considering her relatively young age, she is an enormously compelling writer. You would think that she’s done nothing but write crime novels her entire life. A Camilla Läckberg book is guaranteed to be exciting.
– Eskilstuna-Kuriren
The Stone Cutter is suggestive and relentless and just plain super exciting.
– Arbetarbladet
With The Stone Cutter [Läckberg] has grown more polished and has established a powerful identity as an author. She is making ever-swifter progress through rough territory and very soon can be included among the group considered to be Sweden’s top crime authors.
– Örnsköldsviks Allehanda
This is really good. Sharp, exciting and well on a par with other authors in the genre. I can’t wait for book number four about Hedström and his friends on the west coast. Superb, Läckberg!
– Värnamo Nyheter
Läckberg’s job is to make the reader pleasurably uncomfortable – one of her ironclad skills. This latest novel (translated by Steven T. Murray) adds another level cannily designed to unsettle us: a measured examination of the elements of determinism in human nature, and the readiness to cut loose moral restraint when passionately held desires are frustrated. There is also a lacerating picture of an unrestrained female psyche, both attractive and monstrous.
– The Independent
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