Hits all the points you want in a crime thriller
The story is told is alternating chapters between Malin and Jake, a young boy also living in Ormberg. Jake is one of those quiet children who would do no harm but because of his gentle nature often finds himself the target of the school bullies.
We follow the story from these two characters point of views as Malin investigates the crime and Jake finds himself unwittingly tangled up in.
What I wasn’t expecting from this book is how socially aware and politically on point it actually is. In today’s societies where there is such unrest with immigration and how much Government’s are doing for refugees in comparison for their own nationals this book actually explores some really interesting moral dilemmas.
As well as this the book also hits all the points you want when reading a crime thriller providing multiple suspects, multiple dead ends, and plenty of action. At times the plot was slightly slow going, this isn’t a page turner in the traditional sense. But running at the heart of the story is a cold case involving a murder and I was still really intrigued to find out what happened.
We follow the story from these two characters point of views as Malin investigates the crime and Jake finds himself unwittingly tangled up in.
What I wasn’t expecting from this book is how socially aware and politically on point it actually is. In today’s societies where there is such unrest with immigration and how much Government’s are doing for refugees in comparison for their own nationals this book actually explores some really interesting moral dilemmas.
As well as this the book also hits all the points you want when reading a crime thriller providing multiple suspects, multiple dead ends, and plenty of action. At times the plot was slightly slow going, this isn’t a page turner in the traditional sense. But running at the heart of the story is a cold case involving a murder and I was still really intrigued to find out what happened.