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I've become a big fan of Asa Larsson. I see no need to compare her to the likes of Karin Fossum, whom I also love to read. She can stand on her own merits.
Personally, I think that Black Path is excellent. I like all of the storylines and am not troubled by the fact that our heroine, Rebeka, isn't always the main focus of the book. I enjoy Anna-Maria Mella and her partner, Sven-Erik, tremendously, and I think that the back and forth of the different plots was skillfully handled and very effective ...more
Personally, I think that Black Path is excellent. I like all of the storylines and am not troubled by the fact that our heroine, Rebeka, isn't always the main focus of the book. I enjoy Anna-Maria Mella and her partner, Sven-Erik, tremendously, and I think that the back and forth of the different plots was skillfully handled and very effective ...more
I thought that this was by far the strongest book in the series. Rebecka is back, she's working in Kiruna as a prosecutor and has her own role in the crimes we're following. I think the relationships she's developing locally are interesting (especially the contrast between her and Anna-Maria Mella). I also like the direction things are going in with her previous boss. This murder was the most involved and least spiritual, but I liked that. The only thing that was a little distracting was Ester -
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Another major work of crime fiction set in Northern Sweden and like others before her owes some of its plot to shady business practices in the continent of Africa.
Larsson writes so powerfully about the harshness and beauty of the frozen wilderness it is a wonder anything can survive in this landscape.
However when the fear of exposure of a different kind is faced there are no limits that people will go to maintain their secrets even to the point of killing and the brutal taking of life.
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Larsson writes so powerfully about the harshness and beauty of the frozen wilderness it is a wonder anything can survive in this landscape.
However when the fear of exposure of a different kind is faced there are no limits that people will go to maintain their secrets even to the point of killing and the brutal taking of life.
The story ...more
The darkest of her books so far........and also the best. I found this author by reading her 2011 book first and then went back and started the series from the beginning.
Excellent, love the way she has the characters almost mystical and psychic....LOVE this author.....
Yes, it's dark, but that's why it's haunting and it's well written ........she writes about complex characters, not all of them necessarily sunny and happy (Anna Maria fits this label of being sunny and happy)....
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Excellent, love the way she has the characters almost mystical and psychic....LOVE this author.....
Yes, it's dark, but that's why it's haunting and it's well written ........she writes about complex characters, not all of them necessarily sunny and happy (Anna Maria fits this label of being sunny and happy)....
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Although Asa Larsson books are good to me, they don't reach that threshold for great Nordic Noir. I will read them if I need to for my Nordic Noir group, but not go out of the way to get them. I find the storylines to be bland, as well as the characters. I usually just push past through them. I have not had one of the books in this series get past 3 stars for me and often I feel that I am being generous.
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