Mamma, pappa, barn

Written by Carin Gerhardsen

Narrated by Katarina Ewerlöf

När treåriga Hanna vaknar är hon alldeles ensam i en låst lägenhet. Att pappa är i Japan vet hon – men var är mamma? Kan det vara så att hon har flyttat och lämnat Hanna kvar?
Nästa morgon hittar Petra Westman vid Hammarbypolisen ett svårt medtaget spädbarn i ett buskage, och strax intill, vad hon tror är barnets döda mamma. Det konstiga är att ingen verkar sakna dem. Innan utredningen ens hunnit ta fart tvingas Hammarbypolisen ta itu med ytterligare ett fall. En tonårsflicka har hittats mördad på en av Viking Lines färjor, och vid ett hembesök hos familjen står det snart klart att hennes yngre syster löper stor risk att råka illa ut även hon. De båda fallen blir en svår utmaning för kriminalkommissarie Conny Sjöberg och hans kollegor, inte minst som gruppen själv drabbas av interna bekymmer och personliga tragedier.

Mamma, pappa, barn är andra delen i Hammarbyserien och går att lyssna på som del i serien eller som fristående roman. Första delen heter Pepparkakshuset.

• Language: Svenska
• Publisher: Word Audio Publishing International
• Release date: Apr 3, 2009
• ISBN: 9789186223045

Reviews for Mamma, pappa, barn

[smik_3 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I recently read the first in this series, THE GINGERBREAD HOUSE, and if anything CINDERELLA GIRL makes better reading. This is certainly shaping up to be a good police procedural series. I read somewhere that Gerhardsen has been working on #7 so I hope we get a few more translated into English.There are three main strands in the plot: the murder of a teenager on an overnight ferry from Sweden to Finland; the apparent abandonment of a three year old in the flat where she lives with her parents; and the rape of one of the female members of the police team.The reader knows why Hanna's mother has not returned to the flat, but the police are not aware of Hanna's existence. Hanna herself begins to make random phone calls and contacts an elderly lady called Barbro who initiates her own search for her.As the blurb says, this book makes compulsive reading. Will Barbro find Hanna in time? Who murdered the girl on the boat and why? And who is Bjorn who rings Hanna and promises to visit her with food?The internal workings and relationships in the police team get a lot of focus too, and things are not as harmonious as they seem. There is some overlap from the first in the series and I think these are books that should be read in order. Certainly at the end of CINDERELLA GIRL things are not neatly tied off, and so reading this one will be important for best appreciation of the next.