today in his review of Kjell Eriksson’s second English-translated crime novel, The Cruel Stars of the Night.Eriksson tends to fill his books (including his earlier, critically praised work, The Princess of Burundi) with extensive casts of cops, much as Ed McBain did with his own 87th Precinct stories. Yet most of the action in Cruel Stars concentrates around single mother and inspector Ann Lindell of the Violent Crimes Unit of Sweden’s Uppsala police department. In these pages, she must simultaneously look for a vanished professor, figure out who’s responsible for the apparently motiveless murders of two elderly gents, and deal with the professor’s 35-year-old daughter, a woman whose mental state is rapidly deteriorating--becoming a danger not only to the married man she fancies from work, but ultimately to Lindell herself.
Read all of Thayer’s assessment here.
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Of course moments after I wrote that Bergman died.
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