The Preacher

The Preacher (2011) by Camilla Lackberg. In a rural Swedish location, young women have started to go missing, and one body has been found. A local family is suspected, but DNA fails to prove that any of them are involved. Local detective Patrik Hedstrom leads the frantic investigation, as the authorities try to find the latest abductee while she is still alive. This book has one of two problems: either Lackberg is not a very good writer, or the book loses sharpness in the translation from Swedish to English. In any case, for me, it struck wrong note after wrong note on the way to its unconvincing climax, and I only kept reading because I didn't have anything else to read at the time.
Grade: B-