A review by ceegreen
The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin

4.0

A dour scandinavian crime novel - no surprises there then. What marked this out was the slow, atmospheric build-up.A death occurs,but for about three quarters of the book there's little reason to think there's been a murder. There are secrets, stories, ghosts (perhaps), grieving, and lots of storms and snow. By the time it gets into a more conventional format for a crime novel, it's a little disappointing - too conventional after all that came before. But that's a small gripe, all in all I loved the setting, loved the 'slow burn'and will definately read more by Johan Theorin