On every page, this book stunning, vibrating. Around an unpleasant character, a man who measures the depth of water, being a cold, calculating, systematic but that hides a deep madness. A man who makes a world of lies that joined the real world. The horror of his actions is the excessiveness of the time -the beginning of the 1st World-War and place -the great Swedish North. Women are deceived, men are mistaken. We risk at each slip and drown in the immense cold, dark sea. A different book-very majestic Mankell- other novels written by bit that reads like a ship that would break the ice to advance.