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Dec 21, 2011

John rated it:

This is a solid Scandinavian crime novel,which weaves together scenes of domesticity and scenes of horror, in a social democratic context that manages to have its fair share of religious fanatics. I would have rated it higher, but I felt that the use of the "omniscient" narrator sometimes got in the way of the story. I prefer to have everything necessary to the final understanding of the plot emerge from the story, rather than have the omniscient narrator come up with a lot of extra, m More...

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Apr 14, 2011

Rod rated it:

So we continue with our two main characters, Ericka Falck and Patrik Hedström. Now, however, Ericka is pregnant and physically unable to contribute much to the investigation. In fact, she is almost entirely sidelined. So what does she do in this book, apart from being heavily pregnant and uncomfortable in the heat? She reluctantly looks after two sets of visitors who invite themselves to the summer house. The first lot are relatives (with dreadful children) to whom she has never been close, and More...

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Aug 23, 2011

Filipe Miguel rated it:

Surpreendentemente melhor que a "Princesa": 4.0/5.0.

Apesar da condição de Erica nesta segunda incursão por Fjällbacka, as personagens de Patrik e colegas crescem substancialmente e dão corpo à história. A somar a isto, o aparecimento de alguns familiares de Erica trazem um toque mais mundano ao livro.

"The Preacher/Gritos do Passado" é mais profundo, mais envolvente e (para mim) tem "sumo" (ao contrário do vazio da Princesa de Gelo): crença e More...

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Feb 28, 2009

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Before I start with my review, I must inform that Prædikanten (The Preacher) is the second book written by Camilla Läckberg with the village policeman Patrik Hedström and the posh bookwriter from Stockholm Erica Falck. The first one is titled Isprinsessen (The Ice Princess) and you could find the review here.

Falck, who got knocked up by Hedström after they got together in the first book (one starts to wonder how slutty can one be? LOL Just kidding), was now moving to Fjällbacka, a sm More...

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Feb 06, 2012

Book Him Danno rated it:

How much does parenting matter, or rather, how much can you screw up a kid if you really tried? Almost every plot, both main and background, focus on a parent child relationship. At center we have three generations of fathers and sons creating an environment where horrific crimes against young girls could be permitted. But every side plot also involved some parent child relationship with a sliding scale of disfunctionality.

The plot successfully exposes the pitfalls that can hav More...

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Nov 16, 2011

Bruce rated it:

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Nov 04, 2011

Jill rated it:

In the summer of 2003, in Fjällbacka, Sweden, the newly dead body of a young girl is found on top of the skeletons of two other dead girls who had been missing since 1979. Detective Patrik Hedström, who we met in Lackberg’s previous book, The Ice Princess, is called back from his vacation to take charge of the case.

Hedström now lives with Erica Falck, who is eight months pregnant with their baby. (Erica was the main character in The Ice Princess.) It is hot, and Erica is miserable, b More...

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Oct 25, 2011

Dee rated it:

this was a good read. Not as fast past as some of my recent reads, but very good! enjoyed it!

Läckberg weaves a solid thriller that will gratify fans of Liza Marklund, Stieg Larsson, and the team of Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom. This fast-paced tale ensures Läckberg’s place on the A-list of Scandinavian crime writers. (Booklist )

Läckberg’s many-layered story features plot twists and turns galore…. Patrik and Erica continue to evolve, leading readers to become increa More...

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Jul 14, 2011

Sheila rated it:

A small boy plays among the rocks of a well-known Swedish tourist spot. A policeman sleeps beside his heavily pregnant wife. A rebellious teen heads home. There’s an oppressive summer heat hanging over all, and then there’s a dead and very curiously positioned body. The scene is set for an exciting Swedish mystery, and the reader is pulled into the lives of a large and varied assortment of characters, each viewing the world in their own different ways, each hiding secrets as they navigate the wo More...

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Jun 26, 2011

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The Preacher, by Camilla Lackberg, A-minus, narrated by David Thorn, produced by Highbridge Audio, downloaded from audible.com.

In the fishing community of Fjallbacka,Sweden, life is remote and peaceful, even with so many tourists present. Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance
20 years ago of two young female tourists in the area. Their bodies were never found. But now a young boy found the body of a woman, and with her are the bones of what turns out to be the More...

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Jun 15, 2011

Anna rated it:

A Swedish police procedural that is supposed to be thrilling, or at least is advertised as a thrilling one. But all the concentrating on the people and their motives and relationships and their inner dialogue makes it a cozy procedural. I'd love more thrill.

A local detective in a small city somewhere in Sweden, Patrik Hedström, is investigating a murder. A naked, broken body is found close to holiday area, and two other bodies that turn out to be for people who disappeared 24 years ago More...

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Mar 19, 2011

June rated it:

"The Preacher" is Swedish author Camilla Lackberg's second police mystery mystery. I did not read the first one, and think after this book, probably will not. As I said in the past about my reviews of book and critique of authors' works is often based upon my reading preference at the time of reading it. The story is set in Fjallbacka, a Swedish coastal town and begins with a young female’s body found murdered. On further investigation her body is placed on top of the remains of tw More...

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Jan 05, 2012

Lígia rated it:

Fiquei muito entusiasmada com o primeiro livro de Camilla Läckberg e andava ansiosa por poder voltar a pegar numa obra dela. Fui adiando, porque sei que quando leio duas obras do mesmo autor muito seguidas, a segunda sabe-me a pouco. E foi o que aconteceu… Parece que não intervalei o suficiente as duas leituras para ter bastante distanciamento de “A Princesa de Gelo” de forma a fazer uma leitura menos comparativa deste “Gritos do Passado”.

Ou seja, o mais certo é que se lesse “Gritos do More...

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Nov 03, 2011

Mary rated it:

I picked this up in the library, having seen the author being recommended several times recently. I think it's the second book in the series, I did seem to be reading out of sequence, but apart from the development of the relationship between Patrik and Erica, it did not hamper the story in any way. It was a little odd reading the Swedish names of places, as I knew I was not correctly reading the pronunciations, however again, it did not matter. It was a good enough story to ignore this and get More...

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Mar 24, 2010

Henni rated it:

Kunne man give halve stjerner ville denne have fået 3½.

Nordens krimidronning kalder man Camilla Läckberg, det er jeg nok ikke helt enig i. (jeg stemmer på Sara Blædel)
Det er en spændende krimi, men ligger meget op ad lignende typer bøger fra svenske krmiforfattere som ex Åsa Larsson. Dog er Läckbergs meget bedre skrevet.
Det er nummer to i serien om Patrik Hedström, men jeg havde ingen problemer med at følge med, selvom jeg ikke har læst den første, historien foregår på e More...

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Jun 25, 2011

Rafal rated it:

Intryga drugiej książki z cyklu jest z pewnością dużo lepiej dopracowana i przemyślana, ciekawsza i obfitująca w całkiem zaskakujące zwroty akcji, jednak pisarce, po raz kolejny, nie udało się nadać powieści odpowiedniego ciężaru gatunkowego. Dzięki odpowiedniemu zawikłaniu akcji daje się chwilami przymknąć oko na banalnie rozpisane wątki obyczajowe, przynoszące na myśl historie z telewizyjnej opery mydlanej, oraz fakt, że większość bohaterów tej powieści to nijacy statyści, mało wiarygodni w sł More...

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Jan 29, 2012

Guy rated it:

From the reactions to her writing from serious literary figures in Sweden, I expected this book to be trash. But to my surprise, it was a remarkably workmanlike classical murder mystery, with lots of suspects, a complicated plot, suspense, some humor, and NO cheating or pulling rabbits out of hats.
I wonder what is keeping these from being published in English more quickly--clearly she is the hot number in Swedish crime at the moment.

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Nov 12, 2011

Susan rated it:

The second of Scandinavian crime writer Camilla Lackberg’s six #1 best-selling novels in Sweden, “The Preacher” was only slightly less compelling for me than “The Ice Princess.”

Detective Patrick Hedstrom and his girlfriend emerge as key recurring characters and their homelife provides one of the recurring subplots. As I noted in my review of “The Ice Princess,” Lackberg introduces scads of characters. This appears to be a trait of her chilling crime tales. I kept thinking a family tree More...

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Feb 03, 2012

Laura rated it:

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Jun 10, 2011

Jacqueline rated it:

The second in a series involving Patrik Hedstrom, and his lover, Erica, who are now living together and expecting the arrival of an infant (Erica is eight and a half months pregnant). A young woman's body is discovered in a cave, and two skeletons are also discovered underneath her. Though the deaths are obviously years apart, all have been killed in the same way. And all clues seem lead back to the Hult family, deceased grandfather Ephraim was a famous fire-and-brimstone preacher, and one of hi More...

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Mar 02, 2011

Laura rated it:

This book is great! I could barely put it down. It's a little darker than 'The Ice Princess' and there is more background on the other member's of the police force. While that adds to the story, you can feel it shifting to be more of Patrik's story and less of Erica's (at least for this book). Since I like them a lot as a couple, that made me like the book a little less. Also, this plot was a bit darker than the first book, and I thought it was slightly less suspenseful, in the sense that t More...

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Sep 25, 2011

Laura rated it:

When I downloaded this from an Audible sale, I neglected to realize two things: first, that it was written by a Swedish author, thus capping off my accidental "Summer of the Swede Series" (thanks, Angie, for the term) that started in July with John Ajvide Lindqvist and ends this week with Camilla Lackberg, and second, that it was the second in a series (also the second time I've done that this summer).

Although I had to play a bit of catch-up with the characters' back stories/ More...

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Jul 15, 2010

Larissa rated it:

After years of anticipation (on my part, at least) Camilla Lackberg's first novel, The Ice Princess was finally published in the U.S. a month ago. (It's been in English translation in the UK and Canada since 2008.) I'm happy to say that the book really delivers--it reminded me a lot of Karin Fossum's Don't Look Back with its portrayal of a claustrophobic small town rife with secret scandals and tensions. In The Ice Princess, Lackberg did a great job of imbuing each character--even minor ones--wi More...

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Dec 03, 2011

Denise rated it:

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Sep 15, 2011

Andrea rated it:

For about the first 100 pages I wasn't sure if this was a book I would want to finish. I found myself a bit distracted by linguistic peculiarities which I can only guess resulted from the translation process. Once I got past those distractions, I found myself quite enthralled. This is a book that comes on slow but goes out hard and fast. It's not warm and fuzzy at all like some mysteries. This is cold, calculated, and brutally real. This feels like something that has happened, or could so More...

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Sep 06, 2011

Diane rated it:

This is the second Lackberg book that I read. The first one was The Ice Princess which I really liked. This second book was good, but I didn't enjoy it as much as her first. The same characters, Erica and Patrik return, but Erica plays a secondary character in this novel, essentially stuck at home, pregnant and entertaining guests. I think my main issue with the storyline was that I kept getting the various characters confused with each other. I'm sure that was the intent, but it just made More...

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Jun 27, 2011

Rick rated it:

I don't normally venture into the mystery genre but I heard favorable things about her first book "The Ice Princess" that I decided to give this one a try.

I thought that the story moved a bit slow but when I was reading it, I really could get into it. The only problem was that once I took a break from it, it was hard for me to get back into it.

The character 'Erica' who apparently played the pivotal role in the first book, is left in this book pregnant and catering t More...

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Jan 26, 2012

Patricia rated it:

I received this book asa an advanced reading copy, so there were errors. This is the second book in a series, I did not read the first one. It was a hard book to put down, you were carried along wanting to know more and more. A young German tourist is found brutally murdered, and when they go to remove the body from where she was found, they find the bones of two missing women from twenty three years ago.
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Jun 13, 2011

Carla rated it:

What is it about Swedish writers that chill me to the bone? I wonder if it is the subconscious thought of a cold and biting landscape; perhaps those Swiss commercials for hot chocolate and throat drops? No matter the reason, Camilla Lackberg and The Preacher left me chilled and shivering the whole book through!

This second installment in the series is set in the coastal town of Fjallabacka and brings back the main character of Erica Falk, who is now side-lined with the impending birt More...

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Jun 13, 2011

Lindisfarne53 rated it:

This was even better than The Ice Princess, if you can believe it. I actually flew through the last 40% of it. Patrik Hedstrom returns with Erica and they're going to have a baby. On the mystery front: a girl's body is found laying on top of the 2 skeletons of girls that had gone missing many years ago and it turns out that all three body's are related to the same killer as they've all been murdered in the same way. The plot is somewhat convoluted and the characters took me a while to memorize More...

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