A review by micrummey
Black Lies, Red Blood by Kjell Eriksson

2.0

This comes across like most Scandinavian crime novels as cold and bleak and I had to remind myself it was Summer in sweltering heat. Two crimes were merged into one the link being Ann Lindell who investigates a disappearance and her new boyfriend is implicated in a murder of a homeless man. I got confused in the last third of the book to where we were in either story and the fact one remain unsolved.
I know this happens in real life but it still felt unsatisfactory. Some of the English translation felt odd, who says paper carrier for someone who delivers newspapers. Does anyone take pain pills?
I felt the author could do better it felt like two separate tales but didn't have enough for separate books.