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Johan Theorin

    September 3, 1963
    Johan Theorin
    El Guardián De Los Niños
    Echoes from the dead
    The Darkest Room
    The quarry
    The Asylum
    The Voices Beyond
    • 2016

      The Voices Beyond

      • 576 pages
      • 21 hours of reading
      4.3(328)Add rating

      Summer on the beautiful Swedish island of �land. Visitors arrive in their thousands, ready to enjoy the calm and relaxation of this paradise. Amongst them is Jonas Kloss, excited at the prospect of staying with his aunt, uncle and older cousins. But it is not as he had hoped. One night he takes a boat out onto the moonlit sea. A ship looms out of the darkness and the horror he finds on board is unimaginable. Fleeing for his life, Jonas arrives at the door of an elderly islander, Gerlof Davidsson. Once Gerlof has heard his tale of dead sailors and axe-wielding madmen, he realizes that this will be a summer like none other �land has ever seen. For one man - the Homecomer - this is a very special journey. He seeks revenge that he's waited a lifetime to exact...

      The Voices Beyond
    • 2012

      The Asylum

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading
      4.0(632)Add rating

      FROM THE WINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2010 FOR THE DARKEST ROOM 'A compelling and scary psychological thriller' - Sunday Mirror Who amongst us can really say theyâe(tm)re sane? Jan has just started working at the Dell nursery. But this is no normal nursery. Itâe(tm)s linked to a high-security asylum by a dimly-lit underground tunnel, which is used for the children to visit their parents. Who are some of the most dangerous psychopaths in the country. And Jan has complicated reasons for being here. Thereâe(tm)s something heâe(tm)s not telling people about his past. And thereâe(tm)s someone in the asylum who he really wants to see . . .

      The Asylum
    • 2011

      The quarry

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      3.9(849)Add rating

      "Old Jerry Morner lives quietly in an isolated house, deep in a Swedish forest, hurting no one. Or that's what he wants people to believe. It takes one spark and a can of petrol to expose the truth. The fire is deadly, Not for Jerry, but for the two strangers found burnt to death inside. His sons starts to search for answers. But he soon realises that some secrets are better left to the dead"--Page 4 of cover.

      The quarry
    • 2009

      The Darkest Room

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      3.9(3656)Add rating

      'The dead are our neighbours everywhere on the island, and you have to get used to it.'It is bitter mid-winter on the Swedish island of Oland, and Katrine and Joakim Westin have moved with their children to the boarded-up manor house at Eel Point.

      The Darkest Room
    • 2008

      Echoes from the dead

      • 478 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      3.8(6196)Add rating

      Julia Davidsson's five-year-old son disappeared 20 years ago on the Swedish island of ?and. No trace of him has ever been found, until his shoe is sent to Julia's father. Soon he and Julia are piecing together fragments of the past: fragments that point to a local man called Nils Kant, known to delight in the pain of others.

      Echoes from the dead