After mourning the heroes of Stieg Larsson, in recent years I was showing me skeptical before the widespread display of "Scandinavian thrillers." Here's who surf the wave "Millennium" I said to myself; So try not to be swayed by the makers of "best seller". But one day I fell for "Hypothermia," and I had to recognize that the success of Arnaldur Indridason was far from being usurped. And most recently it's "Children of ash" Kristina Ohlsson took me in his net. Immediately boarded the train to Stockholm disaster, you are caught by an outstanding intrigue, dramatic, cruel, with simple, strong and weak characters at a time, interest at the highest point. The atmosphere is heavy in the persistent humidity of a Scandinavian summer that does not decide to arrive. The assassin advance obeying his very personal motivations, false trails are multiplying and the police do is they can to rebuild a complex puzzle in which, as in reality everyone is not necessarily what its image refers us. Combined with impeccable style and short chapters give the novel a very effective dynamic. We like to enjoy these so human investigators with their daily, priority problems and yet must be left in the background. "Children of ash" tells us the first survey Fredika Bergman, then quickly new murders we see it again in action in mud, snow, cold matter, too bad for her, but she comes back soon!
I listed a few errors I think, once again, the overconfidence that we made today to our various translation systems and automatic correction; P 53: "The last time it was I was late" instead of "the last time, it was I who was late" P 104: "When we went back": It would have been better "when we go again" or better "when we left" I also would have preferred p 204 "when we passed" rather than "when one is past." Always p 204: a small "and" too much "When spring came, and Sara began ..." P 253: Damage to this: "Had affirm" P 351 "by moving to his office" Finally a peculiarity in the writing that comes up very often, "(then he said slowly:)" These: no action, in parenthesis, that's not really annoying, but surprising.
Come on, do not skimp, 5 * anyway, and see you soon dear Fredrika!