Camilla Läckberg

the Actual concept is probably among the most dismissive I’ve heard in terms of bokgenrer, and would fortunately be impossible today: novels with female protagonists, very explicit sex and carefully registered trademarks named ”tantsnusk” in the eighties.

It was bubbling with anger and frustration below the surface in both of Sidney sheldon’s and Jackie Collins books. Often, it was powerless in the struggle of women to get revenge, something that the more reputable the author Fay Weldon also used in his succéroman ”A hondjävuls life and lusts” in 1983.

the novel is descended in straight line from these åttiotalsromaner, and the main character Faye is married to Jack, they have a magnificent Östermalmsvåning, a daughter, and a successful business.

at Least Jack had promised to share everything with Faye, even if they have a prenuptial agreement, which means that alarmklockorna immediately bångar. Faye should know better, she has gone to business School.

the Case is of course inexorably, and great for been blinded by love, Faye ends up in the rental room and get to start from the beginning. But fortunately, there are more broken women who need business partners.

Camilla Läckberg has written ten novels in the past, and even here there is a murder mystery. But mainly it is a decent, honest, irresistible hämndroman in the same style as Sidney Sheldon or Alexandre Dumas ‘ the Count of Monte Cristo”.

Camilla Läckbergläsare (such as myself) småbarnsfamiljelivet in Fjällbackadeckarna: here the focus is more on the arduous trek from the NK to the Stureplan. But Fjällbackadeckarna has been quite uneven, fluctuating between the cleverly constructed scenes and boring distances. ”A cage of gold,” the high tempo straight through, and worn by a controlled, well-argued rage over the state of things, of the cursed love that makes all of the cases, over the helpless women who stay in their cages and turning a blind eye to men’s contempt.

It is a form that suits Camilla Läckberg hand-in-glove, in a genre that has left the contempt behind them.