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A review by jsmithborne
Kar Melekleri by James Thompson
3.0
I've been following my friend Molly's list of Scandi-crime novels, and just had to try some of it out. Enjoying this a lot so far, but I'll be pissed if the wife dies. I hate detective series where in the first book the wife or girlfriend dies so that for the rest of the books in the series, the detective can be tormented and sad. Maybe the Finns won't be so cliched.
Yay--the wife didn't die! But this book just struck me kind of weird. Every time the detective gets a new suspect, he immediately says "I'm almost certain this is the killer"--he says something along those lines about 5 times in the book. A lot of the times it seemed like there wasn't actually that much evidence to base that leap on. But I enjoyed the atmosphere and info about Scandanavian culture.
Yay--the wife didn't die! But this book just struck me kind of weird. Every time the detective gets a new suspect, he immediately says "I'm almost certain this is the killer"--he says something along those lines about 5 times in the book. A lot of the times it seemed like there wasn't actually that much evidence to base that leap on. But I enjoyed the atmosphere and info about Scandanavian culture.