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A review by sinceremercy
The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator by Joakim Palmkvist
3.0
The translation of this is great! The prose is really smooth and readable, not dry but not inappropriately casual either. Largely the story was well told and the victim was treated like an actual person; the parts that are dramatised are not distracting and the transcripts from interviews and such are not boring.
The pacing felt somewhat uneven. At parts I was gripped and read avidly. At another part I set the book down for like a month. Therese gets a LOT of focus, at some times possibly to an excess, but oddly we don't get very much of her reaction at the end when the investigation actually pans out.
Ultimately if you like true crime, this is a good read. I did like it, but it was also nothing exceptional.
The pacing felt somewhat uneven. At parts I was gripped and read avidly. At another part I set the book down for like a month. Therese gets a LOT of focus, at some times possibly to an excess, but oddly we don't get very much of her reaction at the end when the investigation actually pans out.
Ultimately if you like true crime, this is a good read. I did like it, but it was also nothing exceptional.