I was excited when my book club chose this as our monthly pick. It had been on my list for a while and was dauntingly long. As it turns out, it reads more like a quick spy or action novel than literature. Great read.
The story is about a few things - one is a newspaper publisher who is being sued for libel. It's also about a mystery involving a prominent family. And it also features an awkward and talented private investigator. The stories are all inextricably linked and all the plot lines kept me interested in what was going to happen. There was financial intrigue, corporate espionage, blood and gore, and an unusually high amount introspection and internal conflict for an action book like this.
The author is a Swedish journalist who died before his books became famous. It was interesting to read the story set in Sweden and see how some of the social morays were different from ours. There seemed to be a more relaxed attitude towards sex and infidelity. There also seemed to be an extensive amount of coffee served and ingested.
I definitely enjoyed reading this and am already looking forward to the two sequels, one of which is published and the other of which is due out any day. Word on the street is also that the author's partner has another half-finished manuscript that she is hanging onto until his family settles the estate with her.
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