The Stonecutter

A young girl's body is pulled from a fisherman's net in the coastal Swedish resort of Fjällbacka, and Detective Patrik Hedström, newly a father himself, must investigate a murder that strikes close to people he has known his whole life. Camilla Läckberg's third Fjällbacka novel deepens the series' exploration of the secrets a small, closed community accumulates across generations, with the investigation revealing damage that predates the victim's short life by decades.

David Thorn's narration handles the ensemble cast of Fjällbacka residents with clarity, giving the Swedish social world its particular texture without reducing it to Scandi-crime cliché. His pacing through the novel's multiple storylines maintains their individual momentum while building toward convergence, and his handling of the more emotionally exposed scenes gives them their proper weight. At just under seventeen hours, The Stonecutter is a substantial, atmospheric Scandinavian mystery.