The Malin Fors Thrillers: Midwinter Blood : A Thriller (Series #1) (Hardcover)

from elkiedee

Midwinter Sacrifice is the first in another Swedish crime series to be translated, and very welcome it is too. Malin Fors is a talented, ambitious police detective. On a cold winter morning she and some of her colleagues are called to the scene of a grisly murder, with a corpse left hanging from ...

from Beamis12

This is a very unusual Nordic mystery in that it almost reads like a stream of consciousness novel. Took some getting used to because the prose is anything but direct. Switches from third to first person consistently and the dead body has thoughts of its own. Yet I liked it quite a bit, the detec...

from austcrimefiction

"An investigation consists of a mass of voices, the sort you can hear, and the sort you can't. You have to listen to the soundless voices, Malin. That's where the truth is hidden." The quote at the start of the blurb of MIDWINTER SACRIFICE intrigued. The opening of the book with the naked, mutila...

from ebyrne41

My first encounter with Kallentoft, and a thumbs up. This I believe is his first crime novel, though not his first book. He tells a good story and I like his style. Set in Linköping, Sweden, it is a murder investigation that, though slow moving, kept my interest throughout. I liked the insight in...

from shelleyraec

I have to admit I slogged my way through three quarters of this book and considered abandoning it several times. I didn't for several reasons, one being that this was a Netgalley request, the second because two reviewers I respect gave it a 4 star rating and thirdly because I admired several elem...