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A review by flogigyahoo
The Man Who Wasn't There by Hans Rosenfeldt, Michael Hjorth
3.0
Let me say right off that I think The man Who Wasn't There is a good, interesting police procedural. There are some problems with it though. It appears to be the 3rd in a series labelled A Sebastian Bergman Thriller. Thus the character and background of Bergman is not described at all but there are many references to his past.
In this novel he is a womanizer, he is cunning, he's manipulative. In short, not very honorable. Also in this police case he hardly does any work at all except to try to manipulate his daughter's life.
I was also surprised to encounter this remark by a secondary investigative reporter character while she is trying to break into a computer set up by the Israeli Mossad on page 260: "Jews were experts when it came to business, everyone knew that and there was no way they would let some Swedish computer geeks rake in all the big money..." This stereotyped remark has nothing to do with the character. Again, on page 264 she sees a cigarette stub on the ground and thinks: "To think that people still smoked. She just couldn't understand it. Hitler never smoked. He hated smokers." Huh? If the character had been portrayed as a neo-Nazi, I could understand this. But she is hardly described at all.
There is actually too much plot revolving around the murder squad and very little about the actual murders. Still, I did read all 440 pages so it must have been good.
In this novel he is a womanizer, he is cunning, he's manipulative. In short, not very honorable. Also in this police case he hardly does any work at all except to try to manipulate his daughter's life.
I was also surprised to encounter this remark by a secondary investigative reporter character while she is trying to break into a computer set up by the Israeli Mossad on page 260: "Jews were experts when it came to business, everyone knew that and there was no way they would let some Swedish computer geeks rake in all the big money..." This stereotyped remark has nothing to do with the character. Again, on page 264 she sees a cigarette stub on the ground and thinks: "To think that people still smoked. She just couldn't understand it. Hitler never smoked. He hated smokers." Huh? If the character had been portrayed as a neo-Nazi, I could understand this. But she is hardly described at all.
There is actually too much plot revolving around the murder squad and very little about the actual murders. Still, I did read all 440 pages so it must have been good.