Pepparkakshuset

Written by Carin Gerhardsen

Narrated by Rachel Mohlin

En måndag i november, klockan är fyra, det mörknar och blöt snö faller över Stockholm. På tunnelbanan sätter sig en framgångsrik trebarnsfar tillrätta med sin kvällstidning. I fönstret ser han spegelbilden av en luggsliten typ som tycks stirra på honom. Syns det utanpå att han är lycklig? Stör det? I så fall kan han leva med det.
Tåget bromsar in, mannen gör sig beredd att stiga av. Han märker inte att den dystra figuren reser sig också han.

På kort tid inträffar flera bestialiska mord i Mellansverige. När kriminalkommissarie Conny Sjöberg vid Hammarbypolisen börjar ana att de hör ihop blir han iskall inombords. Det finns en människa därute vars drivkrafter är mycket personliga och som inte kommer att rygga undan för något.

Hammarbyserien är en ny deckarserie med täta intriger, storstadskänsla, vardagsliv och samtidspuls. Böckerna har ett persongalleri som garanterat kommer att stanna länge i läsarens minne.

Den här versionen av ljudboken är om-mastrad 2011.

• Language: Svenska
• Publisher: Word Audio Publishing International
• Release date: Jul 18, 2011
• ISBN: 9789185771318

Reviews for Pepparkakshuset

[pennsylady · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

3.5 ★criminal investigator Conny Sjöberg and the Hammarby police ...Stockholm

[bkinetic_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This mystery is a cut above the average page-turner because it evokes compassion and honestly addresses an important social problem. Some questions about character motivation are admittedly left unsettled. The story is briskly plotted, captivating, and often thrilling.

[smik_3 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A reading friend introduced me very enthusiastically to this author. Our local library has the first two titles in the series, and I'll be reading the second.The reader sees the story not only from the angle of the police investigators who identify the body of the 44 year old man on the kitchen floor, but also from the point of view of one of his victims. As the bodies of other 44 year olds turn up, the police team tries to identify the thread that connects them. But we, the readers, already know what that thread is.There is quite a lot of background about members of the police team, as we would expect at the beginning of a new series. A female member of the team is drugged and raped and undertakes an investigation of her own into the perpetrator. That thread provides an interesting second story.The byline on the front cover of the edition I read says "published by the same team that brought you THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO", and I did think "Oh no, someone else riding on Stieg Larsson's coat-tails". The writing in THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE is not as complex as Larsson's nor the story quite as deep, but the blurb is right when it says "dark, suspenseful, and deep".So here is a new name in Scandinavian crime fiction for you to track down. The next in the series is CINDERELLA GIRL which I gather may have had the working title of PLAYING HOUSE.

[beamis12 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Have to say I was very impressed by this book, it definitely had everything I expect from Nordic Noir. It was gritty, dark and very well written and I loved the plot line. I wonder if those children who bully or just join in to not be different ever stop to think of how they would feel if it was them. Have to say when I was growing up, there really wasn't alot of bullying, fights yes but after the fight everything was fine again. This could definitely be a novel that would make one think twice. Loved it!

[heptonj · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is the first time I have read a book by this author and I am very impressed. A serial killer is methodically torturing and killing the people who, years before, subjected them to immense cruelty and torment in pre-school. The characters in the story are well developed and interesting in their own right and the author gives them their own individual stories without encroaching on the main story line. And this book caught me hopping! I didn't see that ending coming at all. Excellent.

[5eva5 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

A few unrelated middle-aged people are found murdered in different parts of Sweden. Unrelated, that is, until the police find out that they all went to kindergarten together. But what could possibly happen in the world of six-year-olds that would cause someone to go on a rampage 38 years later?Great page-turner of a police procedural with the added bonus of the reader getting intermitted updates from the murderer about what "progress" is being made. Initially, I thought I would be irritated by our Chief Inspector, Conny Sjöberg - his home life is just a bit too cozy and cute - but he managed to be clever enough to escape any severe judgment. Mainly interesting is how Gerhardsen is able to make the murderer's motivation quite understandable (or even justifiable?) while keeping the crimes absolutely despicable. She uses the book to raise a lot of good questions about civic and personal responsibility, but still provides a riveting read - no preaching, just a gentle (and quite, quite heartbreaking) nudge.

[quoting_mungo · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This novel definitely has the thing I look for in murder mysteries: uniqueness. The writing is pleasant, and uses the reader's human nature in a very clever way to further this. The one thing I was unhappy with was the vagueness as new characters were introduced, though in hindsight this was yet another clever use of language and there were still hints dropped that suggested the outcome of the case. There are also some loose ends left hanging in just the right places, which is also refreshing; none of the "crime is solved, everything is right in the world" feel that shows up in some crime fiction, though the ending is still definitely satisfactory.