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Excellent read, this series get's better and better. The only annoying parts were those played in the UK, which were very cliched. London police, just like the rest of the world, hasn't driven in a "Rover" way before the time this book is set, etc. You could feel that Tursten only knew the tourist London/UK , which is ok but then don't make such a issue about it.
Didn't see the answer to the crime till the last few pages, although I didn't believe in the red herring as well. Expected quite a diff ...more
Didn't see the answer to the crime till the last few pages, although I didn't believe in the red herring as well. Expected quite a diff ...more

One cannot keep from admiring Irene Huss, a chief inspector whose ju-jitsu moves are not simply decorative. In her quest to find the murderers of a well-respected pastor, his wife, and their son, chief Inspector Irene Huss runs head on into the demonic in a god-loving community in several small hamlets outside her home of Goteburg. Much to Huss's delight, the trail runs to Mayfair and Edinburgh; but the solution to the three murders is as gory and disturbing as a play by Seneca -- or his modern
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it was ok, but no more than that... I don't think I'll be reading more og Turstens books.
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