Scar child

Cover image of the German edition Narbenkind

Scar Child (Swedish original title: Hungerelden ) is a novel by the Swedish duo Erik Axl Sund , consisting of Jerker Eriksson and Håkan Axlander Sundquist . The thriller is the second volume of the special price (Specialpris) the Swedish Crime Academy excellent Victoria Miner trilogy, which appeared in 2011 in Sweden and 2014 in Germany.

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The focus of the novel, which is set in Stockholm , Sweden , and the entire novel trilogy is Victoria Bergmann, who was sexually abused by her father as a child and thus developed a massive personality disorder with schizophrenia .

Scarkind continues the plot of the first volume, Crow Girl , and begins with the search for the missing Johan Kihlberg, who visited the amusement park Gröna Lund in Stockholm with his mother, the inspector Jeanette Kihlberg, and the psychologist Sofia Zetterlund . Johan got lost after going to a ride with Sofia while Jeanette waited and tried to settle a fight. After the Enlightenment was a brutal series of murders of young by Jeanette Kihlberg first set, is at the scars child the assassination of an important businessman and another series of murders in the core of the plot, which can be traced back to spending time with Victoria miner in a boarding school in Sigtuna. Already in the crow girl it became clear that Victoria Bergmann and Sofia Zetterlund are a person with several personalities. However, since neither she nor the commissioner knew anything about it, she was included in the investigation into the murder cases.

trilogy

Erik Axl Sund (2014, press picture)

The book Scar Child is the second part of the Victoria Bergmann trilogy, which includes two more books: Krähenmädchen (Original: Kråkflickan (Victoria Bergmans svaghet, # 1) ; Sweden 2010, Germany 2014) and Schattenschrei (Original: Pythians anvisningar: [" mord och psykoterapi "] (Victoria Bergmans svaghet, # 3) ; Sweden 2012, Germany 2014).

reception

The Victoria Bergmann Trilogy was awarded the Specialpris of the Swedish Crime Academy in 2012. The books have been translated internationally and have become bestsellers in various countries, including Germany. According to the official website of the car duo and the website of the Swedish promotion agency Salomonsson Agency , the publishing rights for the novels have been sold to almost 40 international publishers. In some of these countries the books have already appeared, in others they will be released in the next months or years.

In Germany, the three German translations were published by Goldmann Verlag in 2014 every few months . Immediately after its publication, the first volume, Krähenmädchen , made it into the top 10 of the Spiegel bestseller list in the paperback / fiction category and rose to number 2 on August 11, 2014, where it remained for several weeks. Scars child climbed on 29 September 2014 even after a few weeks on the status of one of the list and SchattenSchrei rose 24 Nober 2014 after the appearance on the top position. All three volumes were then in the top 20 of the list for several weeks.

Publications

Original edition

• Hungerelden (Victoria Bergmans svaghet, # 2) , Stockholm 2011. ISBN 978-91-85785-54-4

German editions

• Scar child (translation from Swedish by Wibke Kuhn) Goldmann-Verlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-442-48118-7
• Audiobook Scar Child (read by Thomas M. Meinhardt ), running time: approx. 13 hours, Der Hörverlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-8445-1540-4

Web links

• Interview with Erik Axl Sund on krimicouch.de-TV (film on youtube)

supporting documents

1. ^ Portrait of the author at Goldmann Verlag; accessed on January 16, 2015.
2. ↑ Erik Axl Sund in an interview on the websites of the Random House publishing group; accessed on January 16, 2015.
3. ↑ Crow Girl # 1 on the Salomonsson Agency website; Accessed February 28, 2015.
4. ↑ Crow Girl # 1 on the official website of the author duo Erik Axl Sund; Accessed February 28, 2015.
5. ↑ Krähenmädchen ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at book report .
6. ↑ Scar Child ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at book report .
7. ↑ Schattenschrei ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at book report .