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Finishing another book on my shelf thanks to #Roll100. The tagged was my March #90 pick. @PuddleJumper

Second book in the Sandhamn Murders series was another great mystery set in the beautiful Stockholm Archipelago. The captain of a sailboat set to take part in the Round Gotland Race is fatally shot just as the starting gun is fired and the committee of the Royal Swedish Yacht Club find themselves suspects. It kept me turning the pages for the mystery, the ongoing personal stories and the backdrop of summertime on Sandhamn.
#SeriesLove2025

I enjoyed it. An older woman on YT considered it one of her favorite police procedurals, so I gave it a try. This husband and wife writing team wrote a number of these types of books. #SwedishAuthors, #Budapest. I really liked the setting. This may be the first book I‘ve ever read set in Budapest (well, most of it was set there).

My second to last #ChristmasCrimeChallenge completed.

These Martin Beck police procedurals from 60s-70s Sweden are well deserved classics of crime fiction. In this one, a child rapist and murderer is terrorizing Stockholm and police resources, already stretched thin, are under extreme pressure to prevent the next brutal crime. It takes hard work (little forensics and limited technology) and sharp patrolmen and detectives to succeed.

The Crow Girl both mesmerized and disturbed me. Trigger warnings for almost all content. We are used to the darkness of most Scandinavian novels. The Crow Girl makes not attempt to drown out true monsters. It artfully illustrates broken memories, fragments of self shattered by trauma. I could not put it down. The authors (two under one name) wrote of horrors and the horrid. I recommend this book, but with caution and care.

It's been years since I read this #standalone zombie book, but I recall it being a very slow burn that I couldn't put down. A close examination of death and grief that stops just short of being a full zombie apocalypse story.

#HauntedShelf #BlackCatCrew @BookwormAHN 31 pts

This story was of its time. There was casual sexism, misogyny, and racism. The mystery was slow and had a noir feel to it. The characters were not complex and were somewhat unlikable. I won‘t read anymore but the mystery and whodunnit kept me reading when I was contemplating a dnf.

Not the tagged book, but Khemiri‘s latest novel is not in the database

Wow! Just WOW! This book is amazing. About 3 sisters, Ina, Evelyn and Anastasia. The book starts as the world is heading into a new millennium and the sisters are in their 20s and we follow them until after the pandemic.

Three‘s also a storyteller, telling us about the sisters in the 90s and how he came in contact with them.

A book about family, absent parents and kids

Set alternately in the 1980‘s and present day. About a group of young boys with a dark metal band and what happenened to their enigmatic lead singer. The present day plot is about Kasper (whose father was Grim‘s best friend and co-founder of the band), named for the late singer. Also about depression what it can do to you, and about Kasper‘s new friend Iris who is a really good friend.