Cinderella Girl
Hammarby Book 2
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Three-year-old Hanna wakes up to find she has been abandoned. Her family is gone. The house is locked. She is trapped.
Meanwhile, a teenage girl has been found murdered aboard the Cinderella, a cruise ship which sails between Sweden and Finland.
Detective Chief Inspector Conny Sjöberg visits the girl's home to deliver the tragic news. But as he investigates, it becomes chillingly clear that the girl's younger sister will meet a similar fate - unless the police can crack the case and trap this elusive and vicious killer.
And all the while, somewhere in Stockholm, a little girl waits to be found and rescued...
Cinderella Girl is the nail-biting second book in the critically acclaimed Hammarby Series. Fans of Jo Nesbo, Camilla Lackberg and Henning Mankell will be gripped by Gerhardsen's characters and stories.
Praise for Carin Gerhardsen:
'Carin Gerhardsen writes so vividly, like she is painting with words, gripping your heart and soul in an ever-tightening tourniquet' Peter James
'The pages turn themselves, right up to the final startling twist' John Verdon
'The books are fast-paced and addictive: finely tuned pieces that virtually demand to be read in one sitting' Barry Forshaw
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Gerhardsen's terrific second Hammarby novel featuring Det. Chief Insp. Conny Sj berg (after The Gingerbread House) successfully melds two homicide cases: one the hit-and-run killing of an unidentified young mother, whose small son is found nearly dead of exposure; the other the strangulation of a 16-year-old girl aboard the Cinderella, a cruise ship en route to Finland. In a related plot thread, a three-year-old girl, Hanna, must fend for herself, locked alone in her family's apartment. Meanwhile, Sj berg is bedeviled by a midlife obsession with a red-haired witness from a previous investigation, and a lecherous police commissioner has targeted Det. Petra Westman, a rape survivor who's working on identifying the hit-and-run victim. The meticulously crafted plot builds to a startling joint solution of the two cases. Gerhardsen depicts a welfare state that tries to instill a sense of responsibility among citizens but too often leaves people vulnerable to the thieves, addicts, pedophiles, and murderers who prey on the innocent, as epitomized by Hanna.
