Camilla Lackberg Crime Thrillers 4-6: The Stranger, The Hidden Child, The Drowning

Camilla Lackberg Crime Thrillers 4-6: The Stranger, The Hidden Child, The Drowning
Camilla Lackberg

Discover the Queen of Scandi-crime Camilla Lackberg with these three thrillers – books 4, 5 and 6 in her 12 million copy international bestselling detective series, featuring Patrik Hedström and Erica Falck.THE STRANGER: A series of tragic road accidents and the murder of a reality TV contestant mark the end to a quiet winter for Detective Patrik Hedström.THE HIDDEN CHILD: The discovery of a Nazi medal in her late mother’s belongings leads Erica Falck to dig into her family’s past, and drag a dark truth from WW2 into the light…THE DROWNING: When a local author and his circle of friends receive death threats, his mentor crime writer Erica Falck investigates. But as the victims conceal evidence, what is the secret they would die to protect?

CAMILLA LACKBERG

3 Swedish Crime Thriller Novels: The Stranger, The Hidden Child, The Drowning

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013

Copyright © Camilla Lackberg 2006, 2007 & 2008

The Stranger (previously titled The Gallows Bird) English Translation © Steven T. Murray 2011 The Hidden Child and The Drowning translation © Tiina Nunnally 2011

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The Drowning cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2012 Cover photographs © Lee Gibbons (heart necklace on rock); Joakim Hermanson, Upplevelsebolaget (background); Pete Turner, Getty Images (sky).

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CAMILLA LACKBERG

The Stranger

previously entitled

The Gallows Bird

Translated by Steven T. Murray

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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

First published as The Gallows Bird in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2011 Published by agreement with Nordin Agency, Sweden First published in Swedish as Olycksfågeln in 2006

Copyright © Camilla Lackberg 2006

English translation © Steven T. Murray 2011

The Stranger cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2012. Cover photography © Lee Gibbons Background texture © www.blacksheep-uk.com (http://www.blacksheep-uk.com)

Camilla Lackberg asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

This novel is entirely a work of fiction.

The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved under International Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.