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La Biblioteca Dell'anatomista (2011)

by Jørgen Brekke(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8842918865 (ISBN13: 9788842918868)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Nord

series

Odd Singsaker

review 1: This is an intriguing mystery, handled well enough that the spanning of continents and centuries adds interest rather than confusion. I really liked the offbeat Norwegian police detective, and the American one, and the interplay between them. I also loved the parts that took place in the library, and the bemusement of the detective at the odd "book people" who were more concerned at the theft of a priceless book than at the flayed corpse of their colleague.
review 2: Jørgen Brekke adds his interesting and grisly police procedural "Where Monsters Dwell" to the wave of Scandinavian thrillers that have intrigued readers since the explosive popularity of Stieg Larrson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," and its two "Millennium" sequels. In this novel, disturbing ... morecopycat murders at museums in Richmond, Virginia and Trondheim, Norway spur investigations that do not long remain bifurcated by the Atlantic. After exhausting her leads in the States, Virginian detective Felicia Stone jets to Norway to marshal limited resources with her Norwegian counterpart Odd Singsaker. They join to uncover a twisted scheme whose tendrils slither as much among ancient scalpels and "The Book of Johannes," an esoteric16th century tome, as they do in the present. As is fairly typical of this genre, Brekke's principal characters are both deep and deeply flawed, as well as various shades of lonely and damaged. They're also very interesting, as is the deadly maze Brekke constructs to torment them until the story's end. At times the writing is wooden (likely attributable to the translation from Norwegian into English), and the pacing drags, but overall "Where Monsters Dwell" is a satisfying diversion for admirers of authors like Larsson, Nesbo, Theorin, et al. less

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