The Girl in the Woods

A four-year-old girl disappears from the woods outside Fjällbacka, and the similarity to a murder case from thirty years earlier is immediately apparent to Detective Patrik Hedström. His investigation deepens when connections emerge between the present disappearance, the old case, and a world-famous actress who has just returned to her hometown after decades away. Camilla Läckberg builds the conspiracy across multiple timelines and settings while Erica Falck pursues her own parallel inquiry.

Robin Bowerman narrates the Fjällbacka series with the Scandinavian crime fiction's characteristic quality of grimness balanced by warmth, the sense that dark things happen against a backdrop of genuine community and ordinary life. His handling of the dual timeline and the large supporting cast is clean and consistent. The audiobook's long runtime gives Läckberg's typically intricate plotting room to develop fully before the connections between past and present become clear.