THE GIRL IN THE WOODS

“A satisfying and counterintuitive clash between the cosy and gruesome strands of the genre”
Guardian

“Domesticity and brutality are Lackberg staples… Tightly plotted… Unflinching”
Sunday Times

“The Girl in the Woods” [is] also a book that cleverly connects three timetables and draws interesting thematic parallels. … Läckberg convincingly and scary depicts how each time holds its own witch processes, while creating a sheer page turner despite its 600 pages.
Skånska Dagbladet

I am delighted to read the story of the little girls who disappear thirty years apart. Was it other children who killed the first girl? Are the new killers new arrivals in the refugee settlement? In the periphery of the story, two lonely young people meet. Läckberg tells us about a contemporary Sweden with ordinary people.
Dagens Nyheter

Läckberg’s storytelling is flowing and unrestrained.
Nerikes Allehanda

She is doing well with the fortelling of the young and liable couple Jessie and Sam. /…/ Jessie’s desperate longing for being accepted and well-liked really hurts, like Sam’s knowledge that what he cares about will be exploited once more. There is a darkness over society in general and Fjällbacka in particular. “The Girl in the Woods” is a dark story in a number of ways: more violent than one could imagine and where children and young people suffer the worst.
Göteborgs-Posten

[There are] many strings that Läckberg weave together and the story has an incredible drive on all fronts.
Kulturnytt i P4

The present-day depiction is told alongside with a shocking depiction of the 1670s, the time of witches. The people could be outrageously evil already then, but it’s not better today. The parallels become visible. … The dissolution is a dramatic and bloody story in this multifaceted and exciting book.
BTJ