Harbour by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Text Publishing, $32.95
A remote Swedish island. A six-year old girl who disappears without a trace. A broken father, who returns to mourn the tragedy two years on – and discovers hers is not the first disappearance from the blighted island of Domaro.
It is not just the islanders, nursing a dark secret, but the sea itself which seems a malevolent force … Presenting, to disturb your sleep, the core ingredients of this latest Scandinavian chiller-thriller from the man who re-tooled the vampire genre with Let The Right One In.
He is, as one critic put it, “a dangerously imaginative man”. It does run away with him at the end but it’s an exciting trip as the girl’s father, Anders, regains his soul through the search to re-connect with his lost child. Who became “horrible”, as did all those who’d disappeared before. Yet his unfaltering love and dangerous search for the truth of what happened to her are the making of him as a father and a man.
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