I’ve always enjoyed reading about characters who have it together professionally but are a mess in their personal lives, which I think is why I enjoy Nordic crime fiction so much; the brilliant detective whose life is a shambles is a stock character. This book is a little bit different: The prima...
Siri is a superb heroine, an entirely human self-doubting psychotherapist and good friend. I read this book in backwards series order, but still enjoyed this first of the series and it was quite soothing to know in advance that she would survive to appear once again in the second book. Her inter...
Elin has a stack of invoices in her lap and doesn’t look happy. She came to work this morning with hair that was suddenly red instead of black, and her usual black clothes had been replaced with a retro 1950s-style dress and Doc Martens–style boots. “Well, but then who needs to approve these invo...
I can no longer deny this fact. I haven’t seen his plump gray body for over a week. Of course he disappears sometimes, off on unknown adventures in the pine forest along the water, but never for this long. I’ve searched in the garden, by the pier, and in the woods between the house and the main r...