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Originally Posted by pdurrant
And now I'm starting on The Man Who Played With Fire by Jan Stocklassa. This is a non-fiction book about Stieg Larsson's investigation into the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Swedish Prime Minister.
A bit of a change of pace from my usual SF/Fantasy/Historical Fiction fare.
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Interesting non-fiction, but a bit dull as well. The banality of evil. He suggests that the Swedish police failed to look at the evidence correctly, because of a series of pet theories held by successive leaders of the investigation. And he advances a pet theory of his own which, since my only source of info is this book, sounds plausible. Whether anything will come of it in the end is anyone's guess.
Then I read
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
This was splendid while being read, but afterwards all the innumerable plot holes and unexamined possibilities started to occur. Claire North is a pseudonym, and I'm guessing that this is SF by a non SF writer. I will still look out for her next book, when on offer.
Next up:
Arcanum Unbound by Brandon Sanderson