A new talent of the Swedish thriller ...

In 1972, the son of Julia Davidsson, Jens, disappears in the small island of Öland, qu''il while in the care of his grandparents. No trace of him n''a never found. Julia and her father, Gerlof are cold since the tragedy. She Custodian to hold because it s''occupait his fishing nets, on that day, while his sick wife s''était asleep in the house. Everyone is convinced that the child s''est away to sea and drowned s''est but Julia, depressed, alcoholic in denial, believed still alive, somewhere. One day (mid 90s) Gerlof called his daughter he mailed the shoe Jens wore the day of the disappearance. Julia, on sick leave, consent to go to Öland and, approaching her father, she gradually learns to mourn his son while Gerlof, old and suffering from severe rheumatism, s''improvise investigator finally learn the truth about the disappearance. '

Meanwhile, "The Hour Trouble" tells the story of a man named Nils Kant, since 1936, is qu''il child and bathe on the beach of Öland with his little brother up '' the terrible afternoon mist on the moor, when his fate intersects that of the small Jens. "The Hour Trouble" is a thriller taking, well written (and well translated), which we discover amid worrying Swedish moorland and rough seas, a fascinating history, ambition and revenge, but also difficult to accomplish mourning and forgiveness.

The main characters, Julia and her father, are fair and engaging, we discover with interest the local history of the insular Sweden, with its trading boats and stone quarries. The suspense is present throughout the novel, in a story that manages to surprise us while we think to know everything. A great novel, which certainly deserves the reward of best Swedish crime novel 2007 he received '.