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The Preacher (Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 2) [Kindle Edition]

Camilla Läckberg (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
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Praise for ‘The Preacher’:

‘[Lackberg] is an expert at mixing scenes of domestic cosiness with blood-curdling horror … a must for white-knuckle junkies’ Guardian

'An entertaining storyteller [who] keeps us guessing' Independent

'It's worth keeping an eye on Camilla Läckberg, whose second novel, The Preacher, is a cracker … the plotting is immaculate and the villain proves to be thoroughly and inventively unpleasant' Independent

'Both chilling and thrilling' Sun

‘A welcome addition to the swelling ranks of Scandinavian crime writers… a good, solid read’ Irish Independent

Praise for ‘The Ice Princess’:

‘Another top-class Scandinavian crime writer reaches the British market’ The Times

‘A welcome new voice in crime fiction’ Woman & Home

‘Has a brooding quality redolent of its barren Swedish landscapes… intriguing and not a little disturbing’ Irish Times

‘Chilly, deceptive and lucid, just like the icy environment it describes’ Literary Review

‘Heart-stopping and heart-warming, ‘The Ice Princess’ is a masterclass in Scandinavian crime writing’ Val McDermid

"Camilla Lackberg is a more than welcome addition to the growing ranks of Scandinavian crime writers translated into English. With its sharp emotional nuances and psychological insight, ‘The Ice Princess’ builds in suspense as the author turns her clear eye on the buried secrets and contemporary relationships of a small, isolated community. I predict that Fjallbacka and its crimes and people will soon be as poplular here as they are in her native Sweden" Peter Robinson

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'Strong portrayals and ice-cold suspense from Sweden's new Agatha Christie, My Life 'Ingenious, Metropol 'This is unputdownable. Lackberg keeps the thrills coming until the very end' Viva 'Camilla Lackberg was voted Swedish Writer of the Year for 2005. Bring on the next one!' Crimezone.nl 'An amazingly mature, well thought-out and exciting criminal novel...Leckberg stands out as the best first-time offender of the year, Jury
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 629 KB
  • Print Length: 516 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1451621795
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (9 Feb 2009)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002RI9QQ2
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #8,082 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A series to watch 9 April 2009
By Fleur Fisher TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Camilla Läckberg laid good foundations for a crime series in her first book, The Ice Princess. In this, her second, she builds successfully on these foundations.

The story opens with a strong and very visual scene. A small boy, playing where he has been told not to, stumbles across the body of a young woman. And that's not all - when police examine the scene they find older remains of two more women below the first body.

The story then moves to Erica Falck and Patrik Hedstrøm, Camilla Läckberg's two principal serial characters. He is on leave and the couple is at home together in her childhood home when Patrik is called back to work to investigate the three killings.

Hooray for a detective who isn't an idiosyncratic maverick but a regular person with a familiar family life!

The two older bodies are swiftly linked to the cases of two young girls who went missing some twenty years ago. Back then, suspicion fell on the members of a prominent local family, and signs point to them again.

The Hult family is descended from Ephraim Hult, a distinguished and charismatic preacher and healer. Living in the shadow of such a man is not easy and the family has many deep seated troubles and feuds.

Meanwhile, Erica is heavily pregnant in the middle of a heatwave and she is plagued by friends and relations who expect to visit and be looked after. It's the price of living in a large house in beautiful countryside. And she worries about sister, who has left her abusive husband but will maybe take more missteps.

And so the story weaves between the police investigation, the family under scrutiny and Erica and Patrik's family life.... Read more ›
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent 13 Feb 2009
By Simon Clarke TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
'The Preacher' is the author's second novel.and like
the first ,set in a small Swedish coastal town,which is
basking in a hot summer.It is a riveting read ,and confirms
her place amongst the panoply of first-rate Scandinavian
crime novelists.
A naked young woman is found murdered,together with the
skeletons of two women who went missing from the town 20 years
previously.The likeable Detective Patrik Hedstrom,whose wife
Erica is heavily pregnant, leads the investigation,impeded by
some indolent and incompetent colleagues.After a teenaged female
holiday-maker goes missing the enquiry turns it's attention onto
the dysfunctional Hults family.
Interspersed with the police procedural aspects are details
of the relationships and domestic lives of some of the characters,
emphasing the fact that horrendous crime is often rooted amongst
ordinary people and their normal concerns.
The reader can never be sure as to the motivation for the
crimes,and it is this that holds one's attention to the end.
Excellent.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Murder and broken windows 13 April 2012
By H. Thomas
Format:Paperback
There have been some great Scandinavian crime thrillers in recent years, most notably the novels of Nesbo and Larsson. The danger is then to assume that all Scandinavian crime fiction is good - the Preacher is a reminder of the dangers of generalisation. This is a truly crap story mixed in with irritatingly irrelevant family minutiae. The police variously stop to give out parking tickets or investigate broken windows in the middle of a murder enquiry - I was not sufficiently anaesthetised to get to the end.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars The Preacher 4 Sep 2010
By NoWireHangers
Format:Paperback
"The Preacher" (Predikanten) is the second of Camilla Läckberg's mystery novels. I haven't read the first one, The Ice Princess, but that didn't cause any trouble for me as this works as a standalone novel.

A young girl is found murdered together with the remains of two young girls who were reported missing 24 years ago and never found. Patrik, a local police, tries to find the murderer and figure out the connection between the murder and the previous disappearances. Meanwhile, his wife Erica is at home, pregnant, and there's quite a lot of focus on their family life and especially a subplot involving Erica's sister Anne's problems with the men in her life that takes a bit too much focus off the main plot, the murder mystery, without adding anything to the novel. It's still a decent mystery novel with a well constructed mystery, although I can think of some minor plot holes that I won't go into so as not to spoil anything.

The Preacher is a readable but not great mystery novel. 3 stars.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read 20 Aug 2010
By Stella
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
An enjoyable enough book I read this as much an anything to find out what happens with Patrick and Erica after 'The Ice Princess'.
The Preacher isn't a particularly original story (there a plenty of Religious Sect - type Crime fiction books out there and I suppose it doesn't help that I haven't long ago read a very similar themed Karin Slaughter book) - but - if you enjoy the Scandinavian setting, and the nicely rounded characters Ms Lackberg has created then you will enjoy this one too.
I look forward to 'The Stone Cutter' coming out in paperback.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Second in the Patrik Hendstrom Series 24 Oct 2011
By C. Bannister TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Kindle Edition
Having started by being impressed with the fifth book in this series The Hidden Child through the Amazon Vine program I was keen to read the rest. The Ice Princess (Patrik Hedstrom 1) was a good introduction to the characters and now they begin to develop further.

Not for Camilla Lackberg the off the wall policeman, instead we have Patrik Hedstrom, an ordinary man waiting for the birth of his first child with Erica, an author of note. The book starts with the recent death of a young woman from Germany, lying on top of the skeletons of two girls who had been missing for 24 years. Patrik and the other policemen in Fjallbacka struggle with the case, who could have committed the crime and why. The lives of the suspects are explored, Erica is able to play a minimal role due to the impending birth of her child but is there in a domestic setting throughout the book, including her relationship with her younger sister Anna. I do like the real characters that are present in this series it makes the books more than a simple crime story although there is plenty of crime committed in this one!

Again this book had me hooked, despite the translation which was odd in parts, I am now going to download the next in the series The Stonecutter (Patrik Hedstrom 3)
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Another enjoyable thriller from Camilla Lackberg.
I enjoyed this novel, as I have done with all of this series so far. Camilla Lackberg makes
us interested in her characters-especially Erica and Patrick. Read more
Published 23 days ago by Anne Watt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great author
I love all of her books, she is son good at portraying her characters as believable people, in both her family members and police officers
Published 1 month ago by sheila krutnik
5.0 out of 5 stars Edge Of Seat Stuff!
I can't believe it took me so long to find this author's books, and thank goodness for the recommendation! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ghost Lover
4.0 out of 5 stars very goog book
Very good book as the follow on from the ice princess ,i will read them all ,there are lots of names to get your head round but stick at it it all comes together
Published 1 month ago by mojo
4.0 out of 5 stars Compelling
A good read. I read the previous book in the Hedstrom and Falck series and found the characters interesting and I wanted to follow up and see how they develoiped. Read more
Published 3 months ago by avid reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Brilliant....I love this author ...keeps you guessing right to the end. On her fourth book now. You are best reading them in order of publication as each book links back to... Read more
Published 3 months ago by c etherington
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting murder thriller
The Preacher is the second book in the Patrik Hedström series and I enjoyed reading this one. This book is a marked improvement from the first in the series, mainly, I think... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lili
5.0 out of 5 stars The Preacher (Patrick Hedstrom and Erica Falck Book 2)
This is the next book after The Ice Princess and I enjoyed this very much. A very good author. Will certainy read this author again.
Published 4 months ago by Carol Lynn Dutton
5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
This is a really good read, make sure you like things with a bit of a twist, couldn't put it down
Published 5 months ago by Mrs C E Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great writer
I absolutely love these books - they have such good storylines. I am totally addicted reading one after another! Unmissable
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. J. L. Ellis
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