[...] a riveting and believable plot delivered with real professionalism
[...] merciless descriptions of cruel acts are glaringly and beautifully contrasted by the glimpses of poetic descriptions of the city of Copenhagen
The story and the plot works, the characters are more nuanced than is otherwise seen in most crime novels, and finally this book not only delivers suspense but also entertaining and intelligent social criticism
There should be plenty of meat left on this bone for a second round with Axel. Maybe Jesper Stein is even to be seen as a ’rival’ to Jussi Adler-Olsen?
He can write up a storm and if he continues as he has started then we now have a new crime novelist solidly placed within the big leagues