4. The Inner Circle by Mari Jungstedt

4. The Inner Circle by Mari Jungstedt

Ah, the first Scandinavian crime fiction of the year. This is book three. Unfortunately I haven’t read the other two, so I wasn’t familiar with the characters. That didn’t bother me too much. The serial killer mystery was was pretty tight. The writing seemed a bit choppy in places, but I’m guessing that has more to do with the translation from Swedish to English than anything else.

And of course the book had me at Viking Age history/myth/religion. There’s a word…, but I’m not sure if my character map has it. let me- ha! it does! (how dare I doubt the character map.) Æsir, which is the group of Norse gods: Odin, Thor, and Frey (and probably others, those were the main three mentioned in the book.) Right, tell me you’re not a sucker for Viking stuff.

The main characters all seem to be in transitional places, so I’m assuming if I’d read the previous books all of those situations would have seemed more important. It didn’t seem to have a happy ending, but perhaps it had a realistic ending. And of course someone seems to get killed for no reason. *sigh* I know there’s a reason for it, really I do. I’m not all rainbows and popsicles over here, but still, I was really getting to like that character. But that’s Swedish crime fiction for you.