To describe my impressions of "Desecration", envy comes to put "too much" everywhere. First, strip the characters involved in the killings are too caricatured. The infernal triumvirate is too rich, too perverse and immoral too. As for Kimmie, the SDF become jet-setter is really fell too low. Secondly, the author revels in the trash of violence and abuse and gender makes the story too highly touted and creepy for my taste. The band openly refers to "Clockwork Orange" but Jussi Adler-Olsen is far behind Anthony Burgess and Stanley Kubrick. Thirdly, the plot relies on huge springs too. Despite some good twists found, too many improbabilities punctuate the investigation. When at last she seemed perfectly Grand Guignol.
So, despite my usual affinities with the authors of Nordic thrillers, "Desecration" I did not like. Yet the police team with Carl, the gruff inspector Assad, the Syrian exotic and Rose, the young rookie, was sympathetic. I even forgave the relative lack of suspense (the culprits are known from the start) because the author knows household enough interest for the reader wonders how the truth will come out and what fate will be reserved for the wicked. The text is rather well written and not without irony. But then, the story was for me too sordid one side and too credible to the other.
