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The Shapeshifters

Audiobook
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1 of 1 copy available

Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims he was carried away by a giant. He is never found.

Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there's a lead: a single photograph taken by Susso Myrén. Myrén has devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as stallo, who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that trolls are real, she follows the trail of missing children to northern Sweden. But humans, some part stallo themselves, have been watching over the creatures for generations, and this hidden society of protectors won't hesitate to close its deadly ranks.

Mixing folklore and history, suspense and the supernatural, The Shapeshifters is an extraordinary journey into a frozen land where myth bleeds into reality.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 6, 2015
      Four-year-old Matthias Mickelsson has been kidnapped from his home in Sweden. The only lead is a picture of a small, odd-looking man snapped by a motion-sensitive camera belonging to Susso Myrén. She has devoted her life to proving that trolls exist, after seeing one in a picture her father took years before. But after the suspect’s picture gets national attention, Susso is attacked by those who hide and protect the stallo—shape-shifting trolls and other creatures from legend. Susso must race across Sweden looking for clues about the stallo, the kidnapping, and a similar crime from 25 years before, while stallo and their guardians hunt her. Shape-shifting isn’t the only dangerous stallo power threatening Susso, and the creatures have spent centuries learning how to protect themselves. The story is understated even at its most tense. Spjut’s prose evokes a cold, mythical Scandinavian landscape, with creatures as ephemeral as a remote forest’s mist yet as solid as mountains. Spjut turns Scandinavian mythology upside down in a shades-of-gray world built for lovers of fantastical suspense.

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