Carlsson's book covers several decades and multiple points of view as the unsolved crimes slowly, and in some cases rapidly, ruin lives. An interesting framing device featuring a failed writer returning home and writing about the cases provides a literate slant.
Absorbing from first page to last, this was to me as good an English-language debut as The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, one of my favorite Scandinavian reads. Recommended for those who like their crime novels chilly and gloomy.
I checked this out from the New Castle-Henry County Public Library and read it quickly.
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