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A welcome discovery for insatiable fans of Henning Mankell. This complicated, disturbing novel reminds me of the best of Ruth Rendell. The story is spread over a couple decades, involving a crime that evades understanding, let alone a solution. First published in Sweden in 1993, Blackwater won the Swedish Crime Academy's Award for Best Crime Novel, the August Prize and the Nordic Council's Literary Prize. The translation is excellent: it won't disappoint English-speaking readers either, although
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I am plugging along with this book because I always finish books I have started. I read Kerstin Ekman's other book, Under the Snow, which I did not enjoy at all and blamed it on a stilled translation. This one started out easier to follow, but it never allows you to develop any relationship with the characters - they are simply there and things happen. Entire villages or groups participate in what happens, and daily life goes on. As it does in real life - but still there is something missing.
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It's a classic...read it! Our full review here: http://www.mysterytribune.com/2012/04...
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