It's early in 1986 in Halland, Sweden, and a murderer is attacking young women. Police officer Sven Jörgensson retires from the police force, but he can't escape this case, even as his son Vidar joins the force and hunts for the killer as well. Decades later, Vidar is still uncovering new evidence that causes him to battle with some of the choices he and his father made years ago.
This book is written quite differently than I am used to, more similar to an Anthony Horowitz style of writing, with the author bookending the novel. This book is so incredibly detailed, with amazingly interesting characters. It's a slow burning serial killer hunt which I came to found out is a fictional twist on the assassination of Sweden's PM in 1986.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, and I love this style of criminal procedural books. It was like the criminal version of an early John Grisham novel. It was so easy to get lost in the pages of this thriller that I completely lost track of time while reading it. It has a lot of moving parts and different characters, but it was deeply intriguing. This is a well developed, emotional piece of Nordic-noir (is that an actual genre or did I just invent it?). I've read a few of these, and they have been some of my favorite detective thrillers.
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