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A review by kba76
The Crow Girl by Erik Axl Sund
4.0
At a hefty 700+ pages this was always going to take a while. The subject matter also ensured that this needed to be put down regularly.
The Crow Girl is a story that can, in no way, be described as anything other than showing people at their basest. When the mummified body of a young boy is found in a bag it is evident that this is not going to be pleasant…but as the strands were joined up, and we saw how pervasive the spread of these characters and their actions had been, I found myself repulsed. Yet the depiction of our main two female characters was fascinating, and I found myself keen to see this through in spite of its deeply troubling subject matter.
DS Jeanette Kihlberg is the person who finds herself caught up in the search for a serial killer. The bodies pile up, and we see the same names cropping up time and time again. One of these names is Sofia Zetterlund, a psychotherapist who seems to have treated a number of the young people involved, and her involvement in these events that have spanned decades is really not at all what you expect.
There’s more than one or two surprising twists to this story. The psychological study involved really kept me engaged when I might, otherwise, have stopped reading. I can’t say I enjoyed this, but it was certainly plotted well.
The Crow Girl is a story that can, in no way, be described as anything other than showing people at their basest. When the mummified body of a young boy is found in a bag it is evident that this is not going to be pleasant…but as the strands were joined up, and we saw how pervasive the spread of these characters and their actions had been, I found myself repulsed. Yet the depiction of our main two female characters was fascinating, and I found myself keen to see this through in spite of its deeply troubling subject matter.
DS Jeanette Kihlberg is the person who finds herself caught up in the search for a serial killer. The bodies pile up, and we see the same names cropping up time and time again. One of these names is Sofia Zetterlund, a psychotherapist who seems to have treated a number of the young people involved, and her involvement in these events that have spanned decades is really not at all what you expect.
There’s more than one or two surprising twists to this story. The psychological study involved really kept me engaged when I might, otherwise, have stopped reading. I can’t say I enjoyed this, but it was certainly plotted well.