Thrilling Scandinavian mysteryFrom an international best-selling and award-winning authorDuring a snowstorm, an 8 year-old boy is found dead in a stream running through a village in Denmark. He has been strangled with a fishing line and has severe burn marks on his hands. The investigation of the killing of the boy goes in several directions. To an old man with a dark past and a collection of … directions.
To an old man with a dark past and a collection of beetles, to a boy with a cell phone and a guilty conscience, and to a drowning accident in the same stream thirty years ago.
Police-inspector Daniel Trokic is handling the case with his team, and while the snow is slowly melting, a terribly painful story is revealed.
Frost and Ashes is the second book in the bestselling Scandinavian mystery series by Award-winning author Inger Wolf.more
Good mystery series.
great book. Enjoy her writing and hate to see the books end.
A great mystery keeps you until the end.
This was a haunting tale about the terrible abuse people will induce on little children.
I really enjoyed this story.
Author kept me guessing who could do such a thing, so I had to finish to get the truth. Lots of suspicious characters.
Different and interesting.
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Police procedural set in Denmark. Well-written with interesting characters. Many potential suspects until the very end when the story is revealed.
A small boy is murdered and the whole town is shattered as the clues mount up and it looks like the killer is local. Trace back a generation for secrets that can’t stay hidden any longer. Excellent use of police procedure, relationships, characters, and suspense.
Not sure how you can even imagine the horrors the victims of the first generation inflicted on their own families.
This is a dark book about bullying, child abuse, and its legacy. But a valid look at past crimes affecting those in the present and informative.
Detective Daniel Trokic is back leading an upsetting crime of a young dead boy found strangled, in the water, and suffering burns on his hands.
Very atmospheric with the snow, early dark skies, isolation, depression and then add fear as people worry for their safety and their children.
Lisa is Daniel ‘s partner and has dealt with cases of children’s deaths and the horror of bullying and child abuse. Descriptive look at the town and its people and shocking just how many secrets are kept or judt ignored until it hits the community in its face.
Lukas is young, not many friends, collects insects, and is into watching people…..and is caught. The burns cause questions about why was he burnt and the police procedural part is complex, realistic, and the info on the arson in town comes to the forefront.
Another death, horrific, only scares everyone more and the exhausted police. A simple picture that includes a grandfather clock opens the pandora box and unleashes the abuse that has been going on and unnoticed by parents…videos and websites their children are watching and keeping quiet about.
Very well written, very informative, quietly desperate, and the police are shown as humans that are as or more irate as they see the evidence firsthand and deal with the victim’s families.
Not for the faint of heart or for anyone with probkems dealing with physical and emotional abuse. Nothing explicit but realistic and gritty.
4 stars
I love this author and she didn’t disappoint with this book. Glued to my chair until I finished.
I never had any idea that the story would go where it went. Great writing and plot about a tragic trend in the criminal world. I will read everything the author’s got in English.
I really enjoyed the book and seek this authors additional books.
Good mystery. Good characters. The ending was a surprise. Interesting that it was set in Denmark.
I would not read another book like this one if I can help it.
It really makes you think and wonder what can I do to help real people in this situation? Worth reading again and again.
Really enjoyed the book.
Well written, suspenseful, very enjoyable read