Originally Posted by ATDrake
I got this as a freebie a couple of years ago and finally got around to reading it in 2014, and rather liked it, enough that I bought the other books in the series when they came on sale, and some titles from another of the author's then-not-yet-available-in-English series in French translation also when they went on sale.
If anyone's interested in an older* low-key Nordic police procedural with an emphasis on detective legwork and without the sort of gory serial killer violence that some of the more modern Nordic crime thrillers use, this is a pretty decent read.
* This was originally out in 1992, and may seem a bit dated in certain parts, but it's an interesting time capsule of Finnish society. Also, this series is apparently immensely popular in Finland and has a TV adaptation there. |