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Well, it looks like snowpocalypse outside, so I guess I'm spending the weekend reading some more library books.
Anyway, finished The Considerate Killer by Lene Kaaberbøl & Agnete Friis, 4th (and possibly last?) in their series starring Nina Borg, Intrepid Danish Danger Magnet And Part-Time Red Cross Nurse.
Apparently as a result of the previous few books, Nina has severely cut down on her involvement with a refugee-smuggling aid network and other fringe social services grey areas which exposed her and her family to danger. Nevertheless, danger comes for her anyway. This becomes a part-psychological portrait of how Nina got to where she was and how she gets out of it, and also a look into what shaped the titular antagonist, whose reluctant slide into inevitable doom we watch unfold.
Even though I'm not really sure it worked out for me in this particular installment, I do appreciate that the authors are willing to experiment with the substance and structure of their stories from novel to novel, when they could easily let them go formulaic. And that Soho Press has been pretty good about publishing the newer volumes in translation (this was released in Danish and got an English-language version within the same year, according to the copyright info), and that the not-so-local library has been pretty good about getting them in.
A few things in the story development make me wonder if this is going to be the last Nina Borg adventure (apparently both Kaaberbøl & Friis now have new separate series they've been working on), but it was a nice continuation to read this one, and if it happens to wrap up the lot, that would be okay, even though I'd still like more.
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