tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post5193401454604952984..comments2024-03-23T02:59:40.776+00:00Comments on Euro Crime: Review: The Drowning by Camilla Lackberg (audio book)Karen (Euro Crime)http://www.blogger.com/profile/03678348280806062648noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post-86203038035675769652012-05-13T18:07:16.547+01:002012-05-13T18:07:16.547+01:00Harvee it's West/South West Sweden: http://en....Harvee it's West/South West Sweden: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjallbacka" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjallbacka</a>Karen (Euro Crime)https://www.blogger.com/profile/03678348280806062648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post-19440927533259024602012-05-13T17:17:54.493+01:002012-05-13T17:17:54.493+01:00Where is Fjallbacka?Where is Fjallbacka?Harveehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03490108303790217277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post-75082552885267883912012-05-11T07:54:26.114+01:002012-05-11T07:54:26.114+01:00Yes it is on my TBR list and I was aware already t...Yes it is on my TBR list and I was aware already to expect a lot of melodramatic domesticity, from Bernadette's review. Reading Camilla's books is getting to be like visiting an elderly neighbour. Sweet but a little boring. Here's hoping future novels will recapture the atmosphere in Ice Princess and Stonecutter. Patrick's skills have got to improve, haven't they?Amandahttp://www.forestwoodfolk.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post-83298934339641743052012-05-10T12:52:15.758+01:002012-05-10T12:52:15.758+01:00I have this one to read (print version) so have on...I have this one to read (print version) so have only skimmed your review - but I know that many people feel the domesticity swamps the plot in this one. (I see from my skim you don't think the plot that great, here, either).<br />Ice Princess is my favourite, too, it is sharper and darker than the other books. I also liked the portrait of post-natal depression in The Stonecutter (whereas the story of the Stonecutter was naffly done) - very accurate and a topic never (?) covered in crime fic since Ruth Rendell's A Fatal Inversion about 30 (?) yrs ago to my knowledge.<br /><br />I have found this series to become progressively softer and less satisfying as a crime series (unlike, eg Liza Marklund or Mari Jungstedt) but I think the author writes a good Maeve Binchy- or Joanna Trollope-style saga which passes the time pleasantly enough- for me, this is far better than plots about people toruturing children to death and sending their parents the pictures on each subsequent birthday or similar themes in modern crime fic in the UK.Maxine Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06628509319992204770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32065323.post-19990641573648200682012-05-10T11:55:34.326+01:002012-05-10T11:55:34.326+01:00May I say ditto? I was a bit harsher but that'...May I say ditto? I was a bit harsher but that's 'cos I'm a grumpy cow but I basically agree with you. <br /><br />Also agree with you about Eamonn Riley's narration and the best two books in the series.Bernadettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07641617609801125707noreply@blogger.com