MYSTERY

What My Body Remembers

by Agnete Friis
Soho Crime. May 2017. 304p. tr. from Danish by Lindy Falk van Rooyen. ISBN 9781616956028. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9781616956035. M
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Ella Nygaard, 27, has suffered from memory loss for 20 years since her father was convicted of murdering her mother and she became a ward of the state. After a lifetime of poor choices and an incapacitating PTSD episode, she discovers her 11-year-old son, Alex, has been placed in a foster home. When Ella kidnaps Alex and takes shelter in her grandmother's abandoned house in an isolated coastal town in northern Denmark, she slowly begins to remember what actually happened when her mother died. With the help of Thomas, a childhood friend, and offbeat new acquaintance Barbara, Ella learns to fight her old demons. Interspersing chapters detail the backstory of Ella's parents, which reveal the damaging effects of virulent religion and a devastating love triangle that may harm Ella and Alex in the present.
VERDICT Making her solo debut, the coauthor of the "Nina Borg" (The Boy in the Suitcase) series not surprisingly has written a dark, fast-paced, and compelling mystery that will fascinate aficionados of Nordic noir.
Reviewed by Ann Chambers Theis , Apr 01, 2017
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