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    The Scent of Almonds and Other Stories
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    Audiobook4 hours

    The Scent of Almonds and Other Stories

    Written by Camilla Läckberg

    Narrated by Robin Bowerman

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    About this audiobook

    THE SCENT OF ALMONDS AND OTHER STORIES is a collection of short stories from the No.1 international bestseller Camilla Lackberg. Perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo.

    Four unmissable stories set in the Swedish fishing village of Fjallbacka and told in Camilla Lackberg's distinctive voice.

    THE SCENT OF ALMONDS
    A snowstorm traps a family in a hotel on a tiny island off Fjallbacka – and then a body is discovered in the library.

    AN ELEGANT DEATH
    Two sisters witness a murder in a fashion boutique.

    DREAMING OF ELISABETH
    Malin is trapped on a boat with a man she is beginning to fear…

    THE WIDOWS' CAFE
    Marianne is serving up a dangerous concoction at the Widows' Cafe.

    Showcasing Camilla's acclaimed talent for combining heart-stopping plots with heart-warming characters, this collection of tales will thrill and delight in equal measure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 26, 2015
    ISBN9780008126995
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    The Scent of Almonds and Other Stories
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    Camilla Läckberg

    Camilla Läckberg is a worldwide bestseller renowned for her brilliant contemporary psychological thrillers. Her novels have sold 19 million copies in 55 countries with translations into 37 languages.

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    • 5/5
      Although the first tale may be a tad too long, it was very entertaining. The remaining ones were a pure delight. It seems that the author doesn't mind if the reader guesses the resolution (rather than the solution). It's shared fun.
    • 4/5
      Fjallbacka is the main character in this book. Partick and Erika only appear in the one short story. The novella is a closed island mystery. A murder is committed on an island closed off in a winter storm a young policeman tries to work out which relative of the victim did the dirty deed.

      Good narration by the series regular narrator.
    • 5/5
      In the first story, The Scent of Almonds, you will find a unique story in that its main character is Martin Molin who I believe is the chief of police in Lackberg's highly successful series of books which follow Detective Patrik Hedstrom and his wife journalist Erika Flack. In the detective series Molin usually sits back and lets Hedstrom do all the investigative work. This time however, Molin finds himself stranded due to an unrelenting ice storm with the family of his girlfriend Lissette on an island off the mainland when a murder occurs. Molin is confronted with a large pool of suspects each with their own secrets and stories t hide behind which only further hinders Molin's inexperience as a lead detective. When a second murder occurs Molin finds himself in over his head. Will he be able to solve these mysterious deaths without the more experienced Det. Hedstrom? Does he have what it takes? A puzzling, edge of your seat mystery, with continual twists and turns similar to the original series, you will find yourself engaged to the final page. The remaining 3 stories in this book are much shorter in length, but equally engaging. Because of they are shorter in length it makes it difficult to review them without giving away the stories. I will say however, that The Widows' Café was my favorite.

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    • 2/5
      This is a particularly unbalanced colleciton of stories. I listened to thi, and at 4.75 hours the main story was a huge proportion of this.comming in at over 3 hours. The other 3 stories were about 20 minutes each. This did not make for an even listening experience. In the main story, we have the classic locked room mystery, with a death in front of a crowd of witnesses who are then unable to leave the scene, in thgis case being trapped in a hoptel by a snowstorm. One of the guests is Martin Molin, and he is a policeman. I'm not sure what type of policeman, as he seems to go about the investigation that is foisted on him in a particularly amateur way. At times he did seem very young. Some of the questions he seemingly doesn't ask seemed glaring. And, in a house full of motive, he say he can't find one. I could, a great deal of money and a yet to be signed will. The second story features Martin again but this time he has a detective who seems to know what he is doing. The thrid and forth stories are as much mysterious as detective, as neither is solved, as such. The writing is OK, and there are some interesting twists on the standard mystery in here. But I'm not sure that the characters grabbed me enough to read more, and the disparate size of the stories in this collection made it an uneven collection. Not a bad read, just not enough to get me comming back for more.
    • 5/5
      I absolutely loved this book! Some of these short stories involved the characters from her detective novels and it did come handy having read all of them, although I think, it is possible to start with this one and later read the rest of her thrillers.The Scent of Almonds and Other Stories are a collection of some very short but beautiful crime fiction. Each of them represents situations of people and their way of thinking. These stories include topics: rage, disrespect, revenge, disappointment, love, survival, self-loving and family relationships. It is interesting how these topics can be interpreted in crime stories and it's quite fun and sad!I chose to start to read the stories from the back, starting with the very short one and leaving the "Scent of Almonds" as the very last. I found the book format extremely helpful when taking on journey as it was narrow and nearly half the size A5. There are less than 200 pages, excellent when taking public transport, but for longer journeys, you know yourself, you will need something extra.