A good effort at weaving together a lot of separate crime plots. That's the best I can give it, it was fine! Just what I want from scandi crime. ( )

Fantastic plotting! ( )

Jorge Brekke plays fast and loose with time in his narration of the latest (book three) of his Odd Singsaker series. In the present our detective is being questioned about his actions related to a recent crime. But, before we learn too much, the story moves to the past…or to the present, or back to the future—chapters labelled: two days before, two weeks after, early morning of the day it happened or a week before it happened…and so on—following several groups of people until all is revealed. I give the author points for creativity in his telling, and my criticisms of his story are not with his format or with his detective. Singsaker is an interesting character, a well-thought out detective; however, the criminal landscape of Norway is rendered as brutal and violent, and the book is very heavy in what one would call “torture porn”— much more than his previous two novels. I admit to skimming the last half of the book. It’s too bad really as the author is a good writer and, as mentioned earlier, quite creative (even his time-traveling narrative ia interesting) but I’m done with this series. ( )

A compulsive read. In spite of the fact that Scandinavia in general and Trondheim in particular have no crime rates worthy of mention, their authors do a great job in convincing us that they are all killers. A great read that ties in these many strands of a crime. ( )