The Blood Spilt

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Blod som spillts. English.

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Ineffectual policework submitted by geneslibrary on August 14, 2010, 4:11pm By the time I was 50 pages into the story it seemed to me that I was detecting a woman's touch to the writing. Sometimes I look at the inside of the back dust jacket and sometimes I don't. Didn't this time. Saw the first name Asa and assumed it was a male. My bad. The upshot of this is a bit more personal interior than I care for but the story was fairly well told. Unfortunately, it was a story of policework done too slowly so that by the end the killer has had time to kill himself (and his unfortunate son who was not involved at all in his father's crimes). I grade it a weak police procedural (no lists of prime suspects, officers too often overwhelmed by 'locals' including the baddy, focus mostly on one investigator (though 3 or 4 others are involved) and not much character development, a really good person is killed (aren't there enough bad people around? gotta play on my heartstrings?- Asa use your imagination!)).

I finished the book that that is saying something positive about it, I guess.

If the description of life in small Swedish villages is accurate it's a wonder more Swedish husbands aren't murdered by their wives given the amount of brutality that flows in the other direction. It would make me think twice about visiting rural Sweden and I'm a guy. Pretty depressing. Of course, I understand that Sweden is not alone in this. The USA ranks pretty low on the get along scale, to my understanding.