Dark Angel
Mari Jungstedt; Tiina
Nunnally (translator)
Stockholm Text, Jun 10 2014, $14.95
ISBN: 9789175470221
In Visby on Gotland Island, Sweden,
successful fiftyish event planner Viktor Algård files for divorce from his weak
wife Elisabeth and abandons their children to spend more time with his
lover. When he hosts the gala opening of
a new center in Visby, Viktor knows he is the toast of the entire island except
his family.
Detective Superintendent Anders Knutas
struggles with his own children, but must put aside his personal concerns to
focus on the homicide by poison of renowned Algård at the event in which the
deceased received accolades from almost everyone. He focuses entirely on the dumped spouse with
a powerful motive until an arson that destroyed three cottages relates back to
his murder investigation causing him to look for other possible causes.
The sixth Gotland Swedish police
procedural (see The
Dead of Summer, Killer's Art, Unspoken, Unseen and The Inner Circle) is
an enjoyable whodunit in which Knutas sees parallels in his relationships with
his family to that of the victim. The
whodunit is strong as twists and red herrings widen the inquiry while family
secrets especially one the protagonist prefers not to have learned hammer his
gut.
Harriet Klausner
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