Select language, opens an overlay

Comment

Jul 22, 2017maipenrai rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Evert Bäckström is the most racist, bigoted, misogynistic police officer I have ever encountered in more than 50 years of reading. In addition he is a lazy alcoholic. He says all women are crazy - children always lie about sexual abuse - only fags go to the cinema.... On and on. I might be able to overlook his disgusting mind if he were running a good investigation. Linda's father was not interviewed until two weeks after the murder, nor was the room where she lived the majority of her life - at the half-way point of the book, the mother has not been interviewed at all. There are no interviews with her friends which is stupid in any case of murder, but all the more so here because there are clues that Linda probably knew her killer. I am going to attempt to finish this book, but at this point I am not certain why. Well, I finished it, but I am still not certain why. Bäckström did nothing to solve the crime. The book needs a good editor - there are so many boondoggles that the book could be at least 100 pages shorter. Muskrat slippers - really?? Horrible!! Terrible!! The only thing the author got right was his dedication when he stated that Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö wrote better books than he. They most certainly did. Check out the Beck series in books and films. Never again will I read this author. Kristi & Abby Tabby