Spring arrives on the island of Öland. With him, many people fleeing the past or trying to find him. Peter and his father Jerry (the latter being the center of the detective story), Vendela and Max, her husband and Gerlof. All have ties to this place: Peter lives in the house of the old Ernst, Gerlof returned home, leaving the nursing home not to end his life there. Vendela back on the island where she grew up and lived a tragedy that resulted in the burning of the farm of his father and the disappearance of her disabled brother. All have a secret or a hidden pan: Vendela believes in elves and trolls who lived (they say) on the island, Peter hides a traumatic childhood haunted by a publisher and producer of porn father, Gerlof discovers what his wife was doing only on the island while he was at sea by reading books that his wife had yet asked him to burn. It all starts with the arson of Peter's father's studio. Concern for the safety of the latter, Peter decides to take him on Öland. Then began a series of seemingly insignificant events that will quickly suggest that someone want to life the old Jerry. At that mixes intrigue other story lines that give real substance to the characters: Vendela reports and her husband Max, a successful author but did not write one of his books, Gerloff in wise old patriarch spying on his late wife by reading her diary and Peter torn between his father and his seriously ill daughter. And around them: the island of Öland, a real character in its own right with its legends color the book very well integrated fantastic touches. The detective story walks slowly and all these characters will eventually be involved in one way or another. The pace is slow, a bit like the awakening of nature in spring, but the simple and direct style can go from very good moments of reading. The short chapters incite always want to know what will happen. But we are not in a fast paced thriller where everything goes at 100 miles an hour. I was a little reluctant face fashion Nordic thrillers, alternating surprises and disappointments, but I admit I found Johan Theorin an author I'd like to see the other books.
