Johan Theorin

Throughout his life, Johan Theorin has been a regular visitor to the island of Öland in the Baltic Sea.

His mother’s family—sailors, fishermen and stone cutters—have lived there for centuries, nurturing the island’s legacy of supernatural tales and folklore.

Echoes from the Dead (originally published in Sweden as Skumtimmen by Wahlström & Widstrand) is Theorin’s first novel.

His second novel, The Darkest Room, (in Swedish Nattfåk) was voted the Best Swedish Crime Novel of 2008, won the Glass Key award in 2009 and was also awarded the 2010 CWA International Dagger.

Concluding with The Voices Beyond in 2015, the books form a loose quartet of novels set on the island of Öland.