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A review by booksbybindu
Knock Knock by Anders Roslund
5.0
‘Knock Knock’ is a tour de force of crime/thriller writing. It was spectacular, highly taut, captivating, gritty, action-packed and downright entertaining. Anders was somehow a new author to me and I have read a lot of Scandi noir. However, I will be going back to read the rest of this series as this novel was spellbinding. ‘Knock Knock’ is the 9th in the series but I don't think you need to have read the previous ones. It certainly felt like a standalone to me.
Detective Superintendent Ewart Grens is six months from retirement and dreading it. His whole life is his job - he even sleeps mainly in his office on his threadbare corduroy couch. When his colleague Marianna Hermansson alerts him of a bugarlry where nothing is taken he is thoroughly confused as to why she is bothering him with such a case until she tells him the address. Sixteen years ago 5yr old Zana Lilaj was found there surrounded by the bodies of her parents, her brother and her sister. They had been dead for three days. Grens never managed to secure a conviction for the case and he always thinks of the wee girl.
Piet Hoffman is an ex-undercover agent who infiltrated numerous gangs and secured a lot of convictions for the police - whilst endangering his family in the process. He returns home from his security company one day to find that his youngest son is playing with a grenade! This leads to him being dragged into a masterminds plan to ignite a gang war in Sweden and if he doesn't his family will be killed.
This completely gripped me from the first couple of pages and I just had to keep reading. The plot was fantastic and the twists and turns were out there. As the book progresses you see how the two separate threads become intertwined seamlessly. The action moves from Sweden to Albania and back. The pace picks up and then I stayed up to 5 am reading this beauty as I HAD to know what happened. Grens intrigued me as a character and it's him I'm excited to find out more about by starting from the first book. He breathes his job, expects others to uphold the law, is grumpy and lonely.
This is definitely not going to be the last of Ander’s books that I read as this is an easy 5⭐️ from me! Let me know if you give it a try.
Detective Superintendent Ewart Grens is six months from retirement and dreading it. His whole life is his job - he even sleeps mainly in his office on his threadbare corduroy couch. When his colleague Marianna Hermansson alerts him of a bugarlry where nothing is taken he is thoroughly confused as to why she is bothering him with such a case until she tells him the address. Sixteen years ago 5yr old Zana Lilaj was found there surrounded by the bodies of her parents, her brother and her sister. They had been dead for three days. Grens never managed to secure a conviction for the case and he always thinks of the wee girl.
Piet Hoffman is an ex-undercover agent who infiltrated numerous gangs and secured a lot of convictions for the police - whilst endangering his family in the process. He returns home from his security company one day to find that his youngest son is playing with a grenade! This leads to him being dragged into a masterminds plan to ignite a gang war in Sweden and if he doesn't his family will be killed.
This completely gripped me from the first couple of pages and I just had to keep reading. The plot was fantastic and the twists and turns were out there. As the book progresses you see how the two separate threads become intertwined seamlessly. The action moves from Sweden to Albania and back. The pace picks up and then I stayed up to 5 am reading this beauty as I HAD to know what happened. Grens intrigued me as a character and it's him I'm excited to find out more about by starting from the first book. He breathes his job, expects others to uphold the law, is grumpy and lonely.
This is definitely not going to be the last of Ander’s books that I read as this is an easy 5⭐️ from me! Let me know if you give it a try.