In the Name of Love
Patrick SmithBRAND NEW, PAPERBACK
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Gripping & Haunting Fiction About Love And Loss & Murder
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In The Name of Love is a slowly gripping and intricately haunting novel about love and loss – and murder.
It focuses on social isolation and dysfunctional relationships in Sweden’s frozen archipelagos.
A young woman is brutally murdered on an island near Stockholm—a haunt of wealthy retirees and arty weekenders.
Suspicion falls first on a family of Iraqi refugees, initially welcomed into the community but gradually feared and shunned.
But then, as the victim’s story unfolds, suspicion begins inexorably to fall elsewhere. Lena Sundman was rude, dysfunctional, and very young—everything a fastidious man like Dan Byrne disliked.
Dan retires to the island life after losing his wife unexpectedly – atttempting to withdraw from the world completely, still he finds other people won’t let him be and despite himself he gets caught up in parts of the community.
Following the sudden death of his wife, Dan is living in solitude on the Swedish island of Blidö when he is called upon to rescue a young woman in a snowstorm.
He is reluctant to befriend the brash and impetuous Lena but a relationship of sorts somehow develops between them.
Dan feels drawn to her, and compelled to protect her when he learns of her difficult childhood. But when Lena’s body is later found battered and bloody, suspicion falls first on a family of Iraqi migrants, and then on Dan himself.
What is the Iraqi family’s story?
Why are they hiding on Blidö, and what part have they played in Lena’s troubled past?
At the behest of a friend he sets off to rescue a girl trapped in a storm – and so begins a beautifully written and engaging life story that will keep you turning the pages to the end.
Taking refuge on the island after the sudden death of his wife, Dan finds himself strangely drawn to the troubled girl, starting from the moment he reluctantly rescues her in the teeth of a gathering snowstorm.
This is a taut, elegantly chilling drama in the tradition of Scandinavian masters from Ibsen to Larsson.
Beautifully built and artfully written, this is one of the best books I have read all year. It is both simple in its storytelling and exquisitely complex in the construction of characters and their motives.
It raises questions about social isolation, loneliness and dysfunctional relationships in the Swedish culture.
This novel asks more questions than it answers; not least of which is the title: who exactly is acting in the name of love?
About the Author
Born in Ireland, Patrick Smith has spent most of his life as a translator in Sweden and, having published novels and short stories in Swedish, began his first novel in English at the age of 70.
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