Never Coming Back
Never Coming Back book cover

Never Coming Back

Paperback – March 6, 2014

Price
$7.40
Format
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1605985268
Dimensions
5.6 x 1.1 x 8.6 inches
Weight
13.8 ounces

Description

Review “Blockbuster-ready pacing combines with a psychological manual’s clinical tone to make Koppel’s thriller, a bestseller in his native Sweden, almost too chilling.” - Publishers Weekly “Swedish suburbia is the setting for this thriller about an abducted young woman who is imprisoned and abused―in a house across the street from hers―by the psychiatrist her husband turns to in his fear and despair.” - Kirkus Reviews About the Author Hans Koppel is a pseudonym for an established Swedish author, Petter Lidbeck, who was born in 1964 and lives in Stockholm.

Features & Highlights

  • Mike Zetterberg lives with his wife Ylva and their daughter in a house just outside Helsingborg in Sweden. One evening, Ylva don’t come home as expected. Mike passes it off as a drink with a work friend, but when she's still missing the next day, he starts to worry. As Mike battles suspicion from the police and his own despair, he is unaware that Ylva is still alive, just a stone's throw from his own home. Ylva has been drawn into a twisted plot of revenge and tragedy that leads back into her and her abductors' shared past.Given the sudden and mysterious circumstances of her disappearance, Mike becomes the chief suspect. But what no one knows is that she's being held hostage in the cellar of the house across the street. A secret camera has been set up in her own home and Ylva can only watch her family on the screen. They cannot see her – and they most certainly cannot hear her scream... Hans Koppel’s tale of horrific tragedy and brutal revenge has obsessed readers across Scandinavia for the past year, now in English for the first time.

Customer Reviews

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Never Coming Back---but in reality, she did actually come back!

I think I expected more from this storyline. First off, the cover photo of a female running through the woods is misleading, as this scene is false. Secondly, I think in translating this book from Swedish to English, something got lost in the translation. The child, 8 year old Sanna, is learning to play a recorder in music class--what in English translation is a recorder? Also, the dad, is making spaghetti and red mince sauce--what is mince sauce? So, I think the translation from Swedish to English could have been done better. Also, the sexual scenes are too graphic and I feel they were not needed to get the point across. Ylva is kidnapped and is missing for 18 months. I wish Mr. Koppel would have detailed each passing month in Ylva's life to give the reader some idea of her spiraling downward. There are 393 pages comprising this novel and I feel that the storyline of Calle Collin and Jorgen Petersson was too much of a detriment and not enough time was put forth with the involvement of Ylva. The central characters were Ylva, Mike, Sanna and Marianne and Gosta, and they should have interacted more rather than at the fast-paced and hurried ending. I wish I could have given this book a 5 star rating, but I have read better.
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Excellent story of suspense

Excellent story of suspense,revenge and tragedy. I have selected this book for my book club. If you liked Gone Girl you will love this book.
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Excellent story of suspense

Excellent story of suspense,revenge and tragedy. I have selected this book for my book club. If you liked Gone Girl you will love this book.
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Excellent story of suspense

Excellent story of suspense,revenge and tragedy. I have selected this book for my book club. If you liked Gone Girl you will love this book.
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Excellent story of suspense

Excellent story of suspense,revenge and tragedy. I have selected this book for my book club. If you liked Gone Girl you will love this book.
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Excellent story of suspense

Excellent story of suspense,revenge and tragedy. I have selected this book for my book club. If you liked Gone Girl you will love this book.