Camilla Ceder

Una fría mañana de diciembre, el pequeño pueblo de Björsared, en la costa oeste de Suecia, se convierte en escenario de un crimen. En la explanada de su taller de mecánica, Lars Waltz yace asesinado con signos de haber sido atropellado brutalmente. Para Seja Lundberg, testigo ocasional, periodista en ciernes y aspirante a escritora, hay algo que no encaja. Algo que la obligará a zambullirse en su propio pasado en busca de las claves necesarias para resolver un enigma que la va absorbiendo poco a poco. Cuando su investigación se cruza con la del comisario Christian Tell y su equipo, la vida de ambos se ve envuelta en una espiral tan desconcertante como peligrosa. La única salida: ser más rápidos que los deseos de venganza que se esconden bajo el hielo.… (meer)

The first in the Christian Tell series, Frozen Moment brings to readers the work of a newcomer on the Scandinavian crime writer front. Ceder's story takes place in and around the desolate areas surrounding the town of Gothenburg, Sweden. It begins, characteristically with a crime. But, this is so much more than a crime novel. This is a story of social breakdown. Undeniably, Scandinavian writers are obsessed with the meltdown that occurs between parents and their children, and consequently the horrors that take place between these lost children who are given a welfare state as parents. It is a story of psychopaths that emerge from state sponsorship and deviant fathers and mothers. It is a story of jealousy, cowardice, and hapless neglect and you give it the name Sebastian. It is a story of utter loneliness in a frozen landscape patrolled by Christian Tell, our enigmatic detective called out to the initial crime scene. What he discovers is the body of a man shot in the head and then flattened repeatedly by an overweight automobile until every bone in the victim's body is crushed. And the first thing Tell asks himself is: why? And so we enter the realm of Camilla Ceder. Asking why, is the reason she became a crime author.

If you are comfortable with a slow burn. If you are patient and enjoy reading people, and find yourself interested in the means to an end, than this book is for you.… (meer)