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Outoja Lintuja (2006)

by Anna Jansson(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

9512072920 (ISBN13: 9789512072927)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Gummerus

series

Maria Wern

review 1: This series is fast becoming one of my faves. Jansson's writing is strong; I like the characters; and this was a very well-written mystery. I read a later book in the series first, so coming to it out of order was a little weird, but this is suspenseful and scary.One thing - I'm a bit squeamish about birds, especially dead birds. And this book is full of dead birds. So that part was kind of gross, though the image is creepy and their use is very creative.If you like mysteries, Nordic or not, this is worth checking out.
review 2: For me, Strange Bird by the Swedish author, Anna Jansson, is more about the unfolding of a pandemic than a mystery, although it is this too. Jansson is very good at creating the dots...the pigeon that is taken into the dovecote, the... more neighbor/camp cook who finds the dead pigeon-owner, the infected child at the soccer camp...and creating the characters and stories to connect them. She is also good at identifying the failings of government and medical facilities when dealing with the outbreak of bird flu and the subsequent panic. The main character in this fast-moving novel is the police detective Maria Wern, whose son is at the soccer camp. Wern and her partner trace all the clues piling up to find the persons ultimately responsible for this crisis. less

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