Publication date: January 3, 2023
NetGalley
Hallandssviten, Book 2
Penguin Random House
Hogarth Books
448 pages
First pub 3/10/2021
Sweden
A novel about a crime
Digital, fiction, crime, audio, book series
4/5
Järtecken, Hallandssviten, Book 1 (2019) Sweden
Levande och döda, Hallandssvitten, Book 3 (April 2023) Sweden
2/23/2023-3/22/2023
This is a complex murder mystery which captivates and keeps you guessing.
This is book 2 of a series and I was unable to obtain an English version of book 1 so I am unsure what background in character development that might have added to this book. I found there was enough information for me to not feel like I was too confused.
This story is narrated by a struggling writer who returns to Halland County in Sweden decades after an unsolved mystery of a man who claiming to a serial killer. He is desperate for distraction to revive his career after his marriage to Sara failed. He had remembered a cold case of a possible serial killer that seemed to occupy many investigators as a call comes in the same night the prime minister is murdered. This would become an obsession for Sven Jorgensson, an investigator who tries to make a connection between the self-proclaimed serial killer and the murder of the prime minister. After he retires, he encourages and assists his son, Vidar, who enters law enforcement as well to bond with his father.
When the writer returns home he finds that not much has changed except Vidar, who he finds disshelved in a bar looking very different than the man he knew 30 years ago. He had always admired him in high school who had called him "book moth" back then. He reflects the past when Vidar's father, Sven was a police officer. As he begins to dig up information from the past he speaks to retired police officer, Evy Carlen, 80 years-old and on her deathbed. She wanted to confide what happened many years ago to Sven and Vidar while investigating the unsolved mystery. What she reveals puts the writer on a path to uncover some hidden secrets and information surrounding the chaotic and rather botched investigation.
"BLAZE ME A SUN a serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the same night the prime minister is assassinated. This is a haunting, cinematic novel about the legacy of violence and a community's collective guilt by one of Scandinavia's most celebrated young crime writers."
Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Random House for providing access to this book for review consideration. All comments expressed in my review are my honest and unbiased opinion.
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