A photographer brings his family to a remote farm on the Swedish island of Gotland, hoping for a fresh start, but trouble finds them anyway in Hakan Ostlundh's The Intruder.
In winter, my mind turns to Scandinavian mysteries, and this one has all of the hallmarks; a little morose, with frightening violence, and a plot that focuses more on emotional drama than the crime at hand.
Here the photographer has quite a few secrets, both in his family history and in his marriage, as does the lead police detective, who is just coming back to the force after a serious injury. He has been given a strange but rather mild case that starts with somebody trashing a vacation rental, but quickly escalates from there.
Ostlundh has written a solidly gloomy little thriller that I enjoyed more for its exploration of relationships than for the mystery.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond Indiana.
In winter, my mind turns to Scandinavian mysteries, and this one has all of the hallmarks; a little morose, with frightening violence, and a plot that focuses more on emotional drama than the crime at hand.
Here the photographer has quite a few secrets, both in his family history and in his marriage, as does the lead police detective, who is just coming back to the force after a serious injury. He has been given a strange but rather mild case that starts with somebody trashing a vacation rental, but quickly escalates from there.
Ostlundh has written a solidly gloomy little thriller that I enjoyed more for its exploration of relationships than for the mystery.
I checked this out from the Morrisson-Reeves Public Library in Richmond Indiana.
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