A good Scandinavian, it was long, finalement.Merete Lynggaard, a politician in the ascendant career goes, almost under the eyes of his brother disabled, while traveling by ferry boat. It is believed the dead drowned. Probably a suicide. Case closed. But she was abducted and languishing in a waterproof case. With his Syrian assistant Hafez al-Assad, the inspector Carl Mørck, dismissed by his superiors, reopens the investigation file and starts from scratch. But time is running out for the prisoner. Careful not n''est a classic thriller, suspense there, certainly, of the plot, but a lot of humor and irony 'and finally in particular retains very endearing characters. A good read.
