Midsummernight is coming. In a hotel 13 people are just wrapping up a television production. Somewhere that night the big star of the production gets murdered. A news reporter is pulled out of her midsummernight holiday to go to the hotel and get the news covered. Due to the fact that most people in the hotel are connected to the media the newsreporter, Annika, knows most of them and one of the suspects is her best friend. [return]At the same time Annika's boss is in a powerstruggle with his boss and she helps him out finding some incriminating information on the big boss.[return][return]The story is missing space. I had to read back at some points to find out who the persona was mentioned in the part that I was reading. Some parts are written very well the arrival at the murderscene is written with a lot of detail and tickles the imagination but other parts are very short and there I loose interest.[return][return]I am not sure if it is my copy but the book does not have enough space. I do not read a book in one go and I like to put it down when I finish an paragraph or a chapter. The chapters where long and there where hardly paragraphs. This gave me the feeling I had to put the book down being in the middle of a subject.[return]The character settings where decent. [return]Overal it was not a bad read, but I am not sure if I would choose another book by the same author
Dieser Krimi ist schön vielschichtig und nah am Leben: Die Hauptfigur Annika Bengtzon, eine schwedische Journalistin, löst nicht einfach mal eben einen Kriminalfall, ohne merkbar von irgendeiner Art Privatleben beeinflusst zu werden - wie es ja leider in vielen anderen Geschichten der Fall ist. Nein, Annika hat journalistisches und persönliches Interesse am aktuellen Fall, schließlich ist ihre beste Freundin eine der Verdächtigen. Gleichzeitig geht aber auch in der Redaktion und in ihrer Familie alles drunter und drüber und will in den Griff bekommen werden.Kurz: Das Buch ist spannend bis zum Schluss; und es stört kein bisschen, dass es Teil einer Serie ist, aus der ich keinen anderen Band kenne.
What do You think about Prime Time (2015)?
I will give it three stars because I liked three quarters of the book. The crime story was interesting enough, the characters and their motivations kept me going, the main character was flawed enough to seem real. Not a bad read. However the ending was too sudden and seemed to have gathered all the cliches in the genre - justice is being made in front of everyone, the main character gets all the attention on her, personal life is perfect etc. And the Cain and Abel story? Made me roll my eyes. But anyway, the first part was good enough to roll my eyes.
—Ana-Maria Bujor
