another winner

more twists and turns from this great author. love the main protagonist, such a relatable character.

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Another Great Book

This is a great second book in this series. Gripping story, well read. twists are brilliant.

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Oh dear

Disappointed in this one. Narration only average but mostly the issue was the lack of characterisation.

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Gripping

Another cracker, devoured over 2 days! Couldn’t stop reading it, desperate to find out more

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Fast paced .

2nd book, and not sure the character came over as well this time - she thought she was going to die about 10 times!

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Deary Me

Well, I gave the first in this series the benefit of the doubt and got the second one but I really wish I hadn’t. This was painful. Sofia Engstrand does a great job of trying to hold together a plot which is based on the flimsiest of premises. The idea that police inspectors would surrender their weapons and autonomy to a pair of company thugs is risible, the faults in the basic descriptions (fog in a roaring storm with 100 mph winds), the writer tics and word repetitions, the gradual erosion of the primary male protagonist from Stockholm’s best detective into an unfit, irrational idiot was just too much. All the flaws left me exhausted, listening because I’d bought it and I couldn’t get past chapter 18. It’s a great shame as the female inspector is a strong character, has lots of potential, but there we go.

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What a brilliant setting for a story!

Brilliant narrator, very, very good at Swedish accent and other Central European accents. Uff Morgan didn’t half put Jamie and Wiik through it this time around. I felt that Wiik’s character was a little bit side lined, but still
was gripped. Would recommend

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Good idea, but not a great story

The first book was great, but this second one is not so much.

The setting is original and interesting but unrealistic. Two Stockholm detectives investigating a murder in the middle of the sea simply cannot happen. It has far too many action scenes that are extremely detailed for no reason and far too many times when the characters analyse theories, adding the author's tendency to repeat phrases, too.

But the thing that was the most annoying was how pointless the existence of Viik was, portraying him as useless, on top. He is supposed to be one of the greatest detectives but during the whole story he is behaving erratically with no good reason, adds nothing (even though his insticts were half-right from the start) and the character's only function is to show how much better Jamie is which gets tiring. In the end, the author makes him disappear completely exactly like she did in the first.

The narrator is the saving grace of this book.

I may give the series the benefit of the doubt and try the third book, but I am not sure at the moment.

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Frantic Action Story

Enjoyed the first book but this was claustrophobic and a not very clever plot and rather gory story line, only saved by the great narration.

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Too many bodies

Two seasoned detectives made to chase their tails around an oil rig with dead bodies turning up at every turn.
A little repetitive and a narrow story line left me waiting for them to run out of people to kill.

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