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The Dark Angel (2008)

by Mari Jungstedt(Favorite Author)

3.51 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0385617097 (ISBN13: 9780385617093)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Doubleday

series

Anders Knutas

review 1: I enjoyed this one in the Anders Knutas series - though I got it out of order (I got two Mari Jungstedt books at once, and based on the copyright dates I thought this was the second one of the two, but the other one (The Double Silence) comes earlier in the sequence.It didn't really matter (the main mystery is standalone) but I would have preferred to read this one before Double Silence because of events in the continuing characters' lives.
review 2: In "Dark Angel," Mari Jungstedt's sixth Anders Knutas novel, murder again comes to the Swedish island of Gotland. When event planner Vicktor Algård is found murdered in an empty room of the new convention center in Visby, suspicion quickly focuses on his secret lover, Veronika Hammar. But when, a short time later,... more Hammar herself becomes a target for murder, the Visby police force, under the leadership of Anders Knutas, are forced to widen their search. This novel, the sixth in Jungstedt's Anders Knutas series, moves along at a faster pace than her previous mysteries, and there is a greater focus on Knutas' relationships with his teen-age children and his long-time associate Karin Jacobsson. Jungstedt also provides commentary on the ongoing problems of underage drinking, violence, and social apathy."Dark Angel" is entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking as Knutas deals with not only the murder at hand, but also with his own responsibilities as a parent and with his duties as a police officer... especially as they relate to Karin Jacobsson, with whom he now shares a deep, dark secret. Through her books, Jundgstedt paints a vivid portrait of Gotland, and although the characters in her novels are fictitious, of course, her narrative brings them to life... producing in this reader a feeling of closeness to both the land and its people. less

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