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3.32 AVERAGE
3.32 AVERAGE
Listened to this while walking twice a week, so it took a while to finish. Excellent story, but very dark. Didn't see the solution to the mystery much before the reveal.
Well..... I will probably read others, but I don't enjoy books ever told from the sick person's point of view. The detective was quirky and smart.
Janek Mitter woke one morning with a brutal hangover and discovered his wife of three months lying facedown in the bathtub, dead. With only the flimsiest excuse as his defense, he is found guilty of a drunken crime of passion and imprisoned in a mental institution.
This book is the first instalment of the Inspector Van Veeteren’s serie and the storyline truly begins when Janek Mitter gets murdered as well, everybody realizing that he wasn’t the killer of his wife after all. Janek was a history teacher and his wife was a psychologist.
An interview is taking place, Janek is having a chat with his attorney, from this chat we find out the he and his wife knew each other for two years, been married for three months. They both drink, she was in rehab 6 years ago for drinking – but she just lost a child and her first marriage back then. Janek was divorced as well, had two kids – age 20 and 16.
Inspector Van Veeteren’s approach is on point, no literally, on point… He cuts through the bullshit and seems pretty good at what he’s doing. He doesn’t know for sure if Janek killed his wife, which says a lot because this inspector doesn’t have much doubts in his system.
The action is fast paced, probably because this book is short, but the trial starts right away. Even Janek’s collegues don’t believe he is innocent which tells a lot about him as a person, not necessarily that he is a killer but just a weird one in a not so fun sense. Eva is not much of a player either but she lost her kid at four.
It wasn’t a bad book but definitely a 3 out of 5, mainly because the actions wasn’t wow or never seen before but I’ve enjoyed the fact that this thriller delivered even if it was this short.
This book is the first instalment of the Inspector Van Veeteren’s serie and the storyline truly begins when Janek Mitter gets murdered as well, everybody realizing that he wasn’t the killer of his wife after all. Janek was a history teacher and his wife was a psychologist.
An interview is taking place, Janek is having a chat with his attorney, from this chat we find out the he and his wife knew each other for two years, been married for three months. They both drink, she was in rehab 6 years ago for drinking – but she just lost a child and her first marriage back then. Janek was divorced as well, had two kids – age 20 and 16.
Inspector Van Veeteren’s approach is on point, no literally, on point… He cuts through the bullshit and seems pretty good at what he’s doing. He doesn’t know for sure if Janek killed his wife, which says a lot because this inspector doesn’t have much doubts in his system.
The action is fast paced, probably because this book is short, but the trial starts right away. Even Janek’s collegues don’t believe he is innocent which tells a lot about him as a person, not necessarily that he is a killer but just a weird one in a not so fun sense. Eva is not much of a player either but she lost her kid at four.
It wasn’t a bad book but definitely a 3 out of 5, mainly because the actions wasn’t wow or never seen before but I’ve enjoyed the fact that this thriller delivered even if it was this short.
I love the setting in Sweden. The mystery is complex enough that it kept you guessing until the end. I'm beginning to really like Van Veeteren. My only complaint was that sometimes a chapter would start, and it would be a page or two before you knew who was narrating it. I found it disconcerting at times.
A pretty good police procedural, albeit a little on the light side. Not much character development, especially for the first in a series.
I really liked this book most of the way through and would have given it 4 stars, but it lost it's hold on me towards the end. I don't know if it was the book or my state of mind, but I kept rereading as I approached the end of the book. I'll give the next book in the series a try and hope that it doesn't happen again.
It was fine, but suffered in comparison to the last mystery I read, and also lacked the charm of the Stieg Larsson books. Also reads as dated - faxes galore!
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Standard Swedish mystery/crime novel. Quick read, but nothing unique stood out.