The Land of Dreams (Hardcover)

from c.archer

My thanks to NetGalley and The University of Minnesota Press for the opportunity to read and review The Land of Dreams. What an interesting book this was. Although it is a crime novel, it really is much more a morality tale without a specific ending. Because of that, I found it quirky, yet real. ...

from juniperSun

OK brooding murder mystery. The book could have ended 3 chapters early, but I guess to make it a real Norwegian book the last 3 chapters were needed to show how the protagonist agonized over his decision. We hear so much about what Lance thinks and feels that there is little room for police/inspe...

from janerawoof

Set in present-day Minnesota near Lake Superior, a mystery in which a Norwegian tourist is killed brutally, with another one who was with him, injured badly. A "forest cop", i.e. law enforcement officer for the U.S. Forest Service, Lance Hansen, works with the local sheriff. the FBI and a detecti...

from Yuki_Onna

Haven't got a lot to say about that one. Nice landscape descriptions, the internal monologues of the characters, however, and the endless local history were a bit 'meh' and too long for me. The thing that really irked me was that it was the first part of a trilogy, and I had no idea about that wh...

from lostinalibrary

Lance Hanson is a Law Enforcement Officer for a national park in northern Minnesota on the shore of Lake Superior. When he stumbles upon the naked and dead body of a Norwegian tourist, he is thrown. Once he reports the murder, he no longer needs to be involved but he can't let it go. This is espe...