Malin Fors (8 books in series)
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review 1: I picked this up because I've read the first two and found them OK -- although I don't remember anything about them! This book was unsatisfying. It reads like the author wrote it under pressure to meet a deadline, so any old way the words came out would do. There's a weird motif...
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review 1: I skipped large passages of this book. It bordered on torture porn, but was also appallingly written, with its overblown and verbose descriptions. The author tried all sorts of cheap devices: switching tenses, short staccato sentences, clumsy similes and stereotyped characters. ...
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review 1: Kallentoft skriver rätt så bra i och för sig. Vårlik var bättre än Höstoffer, det var det säkert, men det är igen någonting som fattas. Eller någonting som irriterar mig men jag kan inte direkt säga vad det är. Är det de döda som pratar till Malin även om hon kan egentligen inte ...
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review 1: I'd really enjoyed some Swedish mystery and crime novels last year, so was looking forward to reading this one by Mons Kallentoft... but unfortunately I literally had to force myself to finish this one. It seemed to me that either the writing style is disjointed and affected, or ...
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review 1: Liked: the setting, the atmosphere of the very hot summer, the forest &c.; not sure about: the constant switching between narrators/point of view with little punctuation, so it requires an effort to work out which character is talking. This is the 2nd in the series about Malin Fo...
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review 1: This book attracted me because the author, Mons Kallentoft, is a young Swedish writer in the crime/thriller genre, and one reviewer compared him to Stieg Larsson. The action takes place in a small town in Sweden during an unusual heat wave. In a short span of days, a young girl...
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review 1: Missing the half stars used on other pages: it would be 3.5. Thanks to Ancestral's opinion I changed my view of this book. At the beginning, the switching from Ich- to Er-Erzählung was really bothering me as I didn't grasp who was speaking at certain moments. Once you get used to...
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review 1: Good sequel to Midwinter Sacrifice. Continues the story of Malin Fors the dectective in Linkoping and her department. This time girls are going missing around their area and whilst her own daughter is in Bali on holiday Malin feels safe but wants to solve the crimes before Tove g...