There’s 12-year-old Albin, the adopted Vietnamese son of Mårten (a depressive whose mood worsens when he’s drunk, which is a lot of the time) and Cilla (a kind woman with a degenerative disease that’s left her confined to a wheelchair) who’s on the cruise with his Aunt Linda and 12-year-old cousin Lo (who hasn’t spoken to Albin since she and her mother moved away to a small town). Madde is looking for an escape as she’s just found out she’s going to be made redundant – she and her best friend Zandra are looking to get drunk and have as much sex as possible in the next 24 hours, preferably with Dan if she can manage it. This particular journey is taking place on an ordinary day in early November and the cruise contains the same mix of people that it usually does – stag parties, hen parties, people who want to stock up on cheap booze, and people who just want an alcohol-filled good time.Ħ0-something Marianne who is just looking to do something to take away from the loneliness she constantly feels. Pia is one of the cruise’s 4 security guards – a mumsy, no-nonsense person who cares about the people under her charge and will do anything to protect them. Dan Appelgren, by contrast, hates the ship because it represents how low his career has sunk – a former Eurovision competitor whose song was a chart-topping single but didn’t become Sweden’s entry, he’s stuck geeing up the drunks and the losers and the no-hopers on the Baltic Charisma’s karaoke bar and hoping that he can somehow find a way to kickstart his career back to where it should be. The Baltic Charisma is a creaking ferry that makes daily, overnight tax-free booze cruises between Stockholm and Åland in Finland but which is suffering losses in a cut-throat market and whose staff know that redundancies will soon be coming.įilip, a bar tender in the on-board club, Charisma Starlight, has worked on the ship for years and likes the bustle but worries about Marisol – a young woman who has recently started a new relationship – because he knows the strain that the ship can put on romances. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. You can buy BLOOD CRUISE by Mats Strandberg from Amazon USA, Amazon UK, Waterstone’s or UK. But what happens this night may also bring out the worst in people … Ordinary people are forced to become heroes. In the middle of the night the ferry is suddenly cut off from the outside world. The creaking old ship travels this same route, back and forth, every day of the year.
Tonight, twelve hundred expectant passengers have joined the booze-cruise between Sweden and Finland. On the Baltic Sea, no one can hear you scream …
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