| Title | : | The Disappeared (Fredrika Bergman Alex Recht, #3) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | |
| ISBN | : | 162923298X |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781629232980 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Audio CD |
| Number of Pages | : | - |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2011 |
| Awards | : | Svenska Deckarakademins pris för bästa svenska kriminalroman (2011) |
The Disappeared (Fredrika Bergman Alex Recht, #3) Reviews
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3.5 Quickly becoming one of my favorite Nordic series. This book finds Fredericka and Alex tackling a case with widespread implications. The world of snuff films, a famous children's book author who has not spoken for many years but who was convicted for killing her husband and a grave that holds three victims murdered many years apart.
Love the mix of their personal lives which comes to play in an important way. This case has so many threads to untangle that the reader cannot help but to become firmly enmeshed in the outcome. Good story, wonderful characters. -
The Disappeared by Kristina Ohlsson, Dreamscape Audiobook. #3 Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht Series
This is a very enjoyable series with protagonists Fredrika Bergman and Alex Recht violent crimes detectives of the Stockholm police. What I enjoy most is that the author brings enough of the personal lives of the key characters into the story to make it more interesting and to endear the characters to the reader. I also enjoy the international flavor of the series. I recommend the books, and start with the first one so you get the lay of the land. -
One strong point in The Disappeared, the detectives are good, sturdy, believable characters. However, the victims, and the bad guys play out as poster board mark ups (shallow and flat), and the author leads the reader in circles trying out various "possibles" for the crime(s). The repeated coincidences come off like cheap shots at getting around plot, character and background implausibilities. About two thirds through the book, I figured out what was going on and should have stopped while I had the chance. The denouement presents like weak tea, more satisfying to leave it. A smug final flourish from the author left me feeling sorry I bothered to finish this book.
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Ничего неожиданного, скандинавский депресняк, хотя где-то до середины очень интере��но, как всё закручивается. Но когда в одном и том же месте в лесу находят третий, а потом и четвертый трупы, как-то уже начинаешь сомневаться в умственных способностях убийцы.
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This is the third book in this Swedish author's excellent mystery series. Kristina Ohlsson is one of the best of the current Scandinavian crime writers. She really knows how to maximize the suspense, her plots are complex, and her characters are portrayed with depth. This one is rather grisly in comparison to her two previous books, but it shouldn't be missed if you enjoy good Scandinavian crime fiction. These books should be read in series order, as the regular characters go through changes in their personal lives.
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Vay be. Bu yazarı özlemişim. Daha önce Külkedisi Uyurken kitabını okumuştum. Ondan referans alarak toplu Pegasus alışverişimde 3 kitabını daha aldım. İyi ki almışım.
Bir ceset bulunuyor ve Alex Recht bu soruşturmanın başına getiriliyor. Elbette Recht de normal bir polis değil. Her başrol gibi sorunlu. Ekip üyesi Fredrika ile soruşturmaya başlıyorlar.
Kitabın en sevdiğim yönü temposu oldu. Gerçekten tempolu ve kendini okutuyor. Birçok tahminde bulunuyorsunuz ve bir kısmı gerçek oluyor. Çok ters köşe yoktu ve bu gerçekçiliğini desteklemiş. Son zamanlarda okuduğum aptalca ters köşelerden sonra iyi geldi. Polisiyeyi neden sevdiğimi bana hatırlattı. Tavsiyemdir. Beğeneceksiniz. 👍🏻 -
A very strong 4 stars! This is the first time I’ve read a book by this author. The story left me longing for more at the end of each chapter.
Murdered, dismembered and buried. And so begins the story of the life and premature death of Rebecca Trolle, a graduate student writing her dissertation about an author who wrote children’s books. That author, Thea Aldrin, became more prominently known for writing two twisted and graphic pornographic books and who murdered her partner with whom she shared a son. We never learn why Rebecca chose Thea as her dissertation topic, but the discovery of her body sets in motion an investigation that will upset countless lives.
There are a number of people who “disappear” in this story. In the process of investigating the murdered, the author also shows us that each of the team investigating the crimes have their own serious issues going on simultaneously in their own lives that they are dealing with. For Fredrika, a new mother, her life partner Spenser, a college professor, finds his job in jeopardy and reacts with secretive behaviors. Alex who is leading the investigation is newly widowed and is trying to cope with grieving his loss. There’s two members of the police force with highly questionable ethics who are very close to mucking up the investigation.
The victim’s wanna-be boyfriend Hakan Nilsson wants to help find Rebecca’s killer, but prefers to do so all the while hiding his own secrets and manages to leave his home while under surveillance by the police who are tired of Hakan’s elusive maneuvering. Just as the police feel they have a handle on the facts, another body is unearthed. How did the digging by a college student lead to such a furor? Was a snuff film made 3 decades ago a connected to Rebecca’s demise? What’s the identity of the second body and is he connected to Rebecca‘s murder?
Can’t wait to read other books by this author! -
Πολύ καλό !!
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Two years ago Alex Recht caught the case of a missing young woman. Despite his best efforts he was unable to find her and when the discovery comes in of a dismembered young woman’s body in a forest glade, he immediately knows that it’s Rebecca Trolle. Now they finally know what happened to that young woman who went missing, but now they have to find out the how, the why and the who.
As his team continues to excavate the site, they make a startling discovery. Buried further down, underneath where Rebecca was, is another body, this one male and one who has been there for a significantly longer period of time, some twenty or twenty-five years. Recht believes that the same killer is responsible for both bodies despite the time between the two and he begins to look at reasons that Rebecca was discovered so quickly whereas the other body has lay there for decades undiscovered until now.
Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman is assisting on the team investigating the murders and she is given the task of looking into Rebecca’s personal effects, seeing if there was something that was missed before, something that might give more clues. Rebecca was writing a dissertation on an infamous Swedish author when she was killed. Thea Aldrin wrote successful children’s books but was later outed as the author of two violent pornographic manuscripts and later jailed for murdering her ex-partner, stabbing him to death with a knife. Her teenage son disappeared prior to the murder and hasn’t been seen since – it was strongly suggested that Thea murdered him too. As Fredrika looks to discover what Rebecca might’ve found out, she is surprised to see the name of her own partner, Spencer Lagergren scribbled amidst Rebecca’s notes. Fredrika knows she should tell someone about this: Alex Recht probably. Or even confront Spencer himself. But troubled by her partner’s recent actions, she keeps it to herself, risking everything.
But Fredrika isn’t the only member of the team personally drawn into the case. And the way in which it plays out is going to have devastating consequences for the officer, both personally and professionally.
The Disappeared is the third novel in Swedish crime writer Kristina Ohlsson’s Alext Recht series, following Unwanted and Silenced. It revolves around Stockholm policeman Alex Recht, a veteran of over 30 or so years in the force who has put together a task force to help him investigate serious crimes. Alex recently lost his wife Lena and is still adjusting to life as a widower, throwing himself into his work. His dedication (which could be seen as obsession) does raise some flags with HR who are monitoring him closely to make sure that the pressure isn’t getting to him. Alex has chosen Invesigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman (not a career police officer, she’s on rotation) and younger detective Peder Rydh to make up the inner circle. After some bumps, the team has ironed out into a smooth machine and things are going well when the body of Rebecca Tolle is found, two years after she vanished.
With every installment, this series just gets better. This one contains not only a fabulous mystery for the reader to piece together, but also delves even more into the personal lives of Alex, Fredrika and Peder. All have had their problems throughout the two books preceding this one: Alex discovered his beloved wife was terminally ill, Fredrika had issues with her much-older partner Spencer that culminated in him finally leaving his wife for her and they also welcomed a daughter and Peder and his wife went through a separation and reconciliation with Peder seeing the error of his former ways. He and his wife have enjoyed a stronger connection and relationship of late with him being more considerate and her appreciating that and becoming more tolerant of his often invasive and difficult work hours. And all of that kind of makes what happens in this novel all the more heartbreaking.
The story is interspersed throughout with snippets of interviews – Recht and Bergman are being questioned by investigators, some sort of internal affairs officers on the events that led up to an ‘incident’ at the conclusion of the case. I found them to be the perfect accompaniment to the story of the investigation because they don’t give too much away. There are several incidents (such as Fredrika Bergman sitting on the fact that her lover’s name has come up in her investigation as well as Alex Recht’s personal relationship with someone connected to the case) that could be the catalyst for the investigation. This novel gives you plenty of time to form some ideas, reject them and then start to piece together everything that happened and the way in which it unfolds is so good. All of the books are lengthy and this is the longest yet but they never feel that way. The discoveries of the other bodies (yep plural) in the same grave as Rebecca Tolle’s throws up much more for the team to investigate as they struggle to identify the two older bodies and work out how they are all connected and who could’ve killed three people over a three decade period.
I love how this series is diving more and more into the personal lives of the three main members of the task force. We have always been given snippets but I feel as though this book really took that to another level and gave us a much better insight of the situation for Recht, Bergman and Rydh away from work. I could see the events unfolding that would conclude the novel about 100-150 pages out but that just made the experience all the more tense to read as it all came true. I can’t wait for the 4th novel to be translated into English so that I can see how it addresses the fallout. -
I thought this book was good enough to warrant a second read so I did so yesterday (March 4) before my digital loan on this book expired. Loved it as much as the first read.
This time there's more than one body found, but it's that first body - Rebecca Trolle's - that haunts Alex Recht. Her disappearance two years ago was a case he just couldn't solve and now he's getting a second chance. But, it's so complicated. There are many years between the murders - and somehow those other bodies seem to be connected to Rebecca - but how? She's just a university student working on her dissertation. What's the connection? We've got lots and lots of twists and turns in this one and that Fredrika Bergman - every police department needs someone like her. She just doesn't look at things through the eyes of a cop.
Kristina Ohlsson can certainly keep a reader's attention.
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Θεωρώ πως είναι το καλύτερο από τα 3 πρώτα βιβλία της σειράς. Η συγγραφέας έχει βελτιωθεί και άλλο και μου άρεσει ο τρόπος που δίνει τα γεγονότα αλλά όπως και στο πρώτο βιβλίο βρίσκεις περίπου τι έχει γίνει σχετικά νωρίς (αν και πιο δύσκολα εδώ). Έτσι μένει στο 4 στη βαθμολογία.
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Cover:
Ich muss ganz ehrlich sagen, dass ich das Buch zunächst nur deshalb angeschaut habe, weil es ein sehr schönes Titelbild hat. Die Schmetterlinge erinnern mich daran, wie ich im Kindergarten immer selbst solche Bilder fabriziert habe. Farbe aufs Papier und zusammenfalten.
Die feinen Äste, die sich um die Schmetterlinge herum verzweigen, sind noch ein weiteres Highlight des Buches.
Inhalt:
Seit vielen Jahren hat die einst gefeierte Kinderbuchautorin Thea Aldrin mit niemandem mehr gesprochen. Doch jeden Samstag schickt ihr ein Fremder einen Strauß Blumen und eine Karte auf der nur ein einziges Wort steht: Danke. Dann besucht eine Studentin sie im Pflegeheim - und verschwindet kurz darauf spurlos. Zwei Jahre später wird die Leiche der junge Frau in einem Waldstück gefunden. Daneben: eine weitere Leiche, die schon deutlich länger tief in der Erde liegt. Und schließlich: eine dritte. Welches Geheimnis verschweigt die stumme Autorin?
Meine Meinung:
Zuerst zu den Charakteren. Ich fand alle Hauptcharaktere sehr sympathisch und habe mit ihnen mitgefühlt. Sie alle waren sehr realistisch beschrieben, wodurch man am Ende des Buches das Gefühl hat, dass man sie schon richtig gut kennt. Ich konnte die Handlungen der Protagonisten durch das ganze Buch hindurch nachvollziehen.
Das Einzige, was mich an den Personen in dieser Geschichte gestört hat, waren die Namen, die schwer auszusprechen wären, wenn ich sie denn aussprechen müsste. Muss ich ja glücklicherweise nicht! ;) Die Namen kommen wahrscheinlich aus dem Schwedischen, weshalb sie für mich fremd sind und mich immer wieder ein bisschen verwirrt haben.
Die Details der Geschichte haben sich durch das Buch hindurch immer mehr zusammengefügt, bis am Ende alles aufgeklärt war. Immer wieder wurde ich von "Aha-Momenten" erfasst, wenn wieder etwas erklärt oder herausgefunden wurde. Die Ermittlungen der Polizei, bei denen viele zu den Protagonisten gehören, waren sehr authentisch dargestellt.
Außerdem war ein häufiger Perspektivenwechsel zwischen den Protagonisten vorhanden. Manchmal wurde aus der Sicht der Ermittler geschrieben. Dann wieder aus der Perspektive der Verdächtigen und völlig Außenstehender. Dadurch hat man immer wieder andere Sichtweisen mitbekommen und ändert immer wieder die Meinung zu den Personen. "Ich mag dich. Ich mag dich nicht. Ich mag dich. ...". ;)
Wenn aus der Sicht der Kinderbuchautorin Thea Aldrin erzählt wurde, wurde man immer wieder vor Rätsel gestellt. Durch ihre Gedanken wusste man manchmal etwas mehr als die Polizei, jedoch nicht genug um sicher weitere Aspekte des Mordfalls festzustellen. Man wurde sozusagen grübelnd zurückgelassen. :)
Fazit:
Das Buch ist für jeden etwas, der gerne liest wie spannende Mordfälle aufgedeckt werden, und den es auch nicht stört wenn man hin und wieder grübeln muss. Alles in einem war es ein tolles Buch und ich freue mich darauf auch die anderen Bücher der Reihe zu lesen! Von mir gibt es 4 Sterne! -
It is not that the rich and powerful ever commit crimes; I am sure
they do. It is just a vast majority of crimes are committed by the average,
including murders. It has been an American crime fiction tendency that all
murderers are serial killers; or the thought we would only enjoy it if the
characters are super rich or powerful. I realize there are some fantastic
exceptions to this generalization, but as a trend it is easy to spot.
I bore of this trend and have found great solace in the crime fiction of
Scandinavia. Its detectives, crimes, victims, and motives tend to be as
bleak as their winter landscapes. Ordinary people committing ordinary
crimes for the dumbest of reasons. This stark reality is doggedly tracked
down to its roots by troubled yet determined detectives. It is an
unsensationalized look into the reality of our lives. It is this
unvarnished view of the worst of humanity that brings me back to Nordic
Noir.
The Disappeared at its heart follows these principles and through the
details our investigators are able to uncover the hidden, and expose the
secrets to the harsh light of day. The procedural part of this story is
fantastic and I applaud the author for another great work. I just did not
enjoy the original crime and the conclusion. It is straying too much into
the American school of crime fiction and find that worrisome.
The great news though, if you are a fan of the sensational found in
contemporary crime fiction and are looking for a bridge step into the world
of Nordic style, then this book is perfect for you. You get the over the
top crime coupled with the gritty investigation. A wonderful baby step to
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This was the 2nd Kristina Ohlsson book I read - because I really liked the next in this series. As for The Disappeared - I'm annoyed. After reading the ending (no I'm not going to put a spoiler here) and then her Acknowledgement I was a bit miffed. If she hadn't been so self-congratulatory about this book I would have been willing to pass it off as new author stumble and give her the benefit of the doubt and move on to the next book but Noooooooo... Now I'm nitpicking. Not only did she have one of the main characters (Alex) do something totally out of character her cliff-hanging ending really pissed me off. I was going to message a GoodReads buddy here and ask what she thought the ending meant but now I don't care. For that you get one star and that I give grudgingly.
Suggest title change to: The Disappointed
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This wasn't my kind of book. It is the first novel I've read by this author. She had great "good" characters who seemed competent and could carry the story, but there seemed to be many problems in all the other areas.
The whole plot seemed a tad bit on the convoluted side. In the beginning, there were so many things going on all at once it seemed like a dot to dot. I literally had to restart this book 4 times to get through it. Then the rest of the book was trying to link all the dots together. I was never pulled into this. -
Der schwächste Band der Reihe bislang. Ich mag die intensive persönliche Verwicklung der Ermittler in die Fälle ohnehin nicht, und die Motive hier waren schon sehr klischeebeladen. Einen Band werde ich noch versuchen...
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A touch too long, and one or two coincidences too far but still very engrossing and enjoyable.
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Another enjoyable book in the Recht and Bergman series. I didn’t enjoy this quite as much as the first two, which I thought were fantastic, but still a great book.
My favourite thing about this series is the evolving personal lives of the 3 main detectives. They are such great characters and my main reason for reading the next book will be to see how this progresses.
I liked the fast forwards to the present day in this one and I enjoyed the clever storyline. I normally find the pacing in the series spot on, however I felt like there was a section in the middle that this was a little slow in this one.
My least favourite so far but absolutely love the series. -
Goodreads Description- The body of a young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in an innocuous Stockholm suburb. As Fredrika Bergman and her colleagues in the Stockholm Police continue to excavate the site, several more bodies are unearthed. Meanwhile, the name of a children's fiction author keeps cropping up in the investigation. All the bodies in the mass grave appear to have some connection to the old author and her enigmatic circle of friends - The Guardian Angels - who formed an elitist film club in the 60s. But the elderly writer is mute and incapable of helping Fredrika with the investigation.
But the complex case starts causing rifts within Alex Recht's team and new revelations cause them to enter morally ambiguous ground. Now under investigation by Internal Affairs, the unit approach the case's resolution with a sense of impending doom. The author has kept a dark secret under wraps for decades, but now that the truth is seeping out only one question remains: which will be the next body to turn up in the grave when the killer returns to the forest?
This is the first Scandanavian mystery novel that I actually understood and finished...and I loved it! I believe it is part of a series and I am definitely going to go back and read it from the start. There are so many characters and off shoots that make it hard to understand and I think those are the reasons that I didn't like The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo and the other books in that series. I am also completely unfamiliar with Sweden and the language is very unlike English and seems difficult to understand, even when translated. However, I got through this book slowly and many times I had to go back and look at events that had transpired earlier to remember all of the different plot off-shoots. Once I got through half of the book though, things starting connecting in my brain and the book shot off. When that happened I really understood why Scandanavian mysteries are so popular. Its because they are so good. Once you get past all of the characters, setting, language, and plotlines and finally get them all in your head, I got used to the rhythm of the book and finally got it! The story was so exciting and filled with red herrings that by the end I felt like I was just devouring the book to get to the end to find out "who done it". The writing is tense and impossible to put down! Now I simply cannot wait to start the beginning of this series! I am so glad that I pushed through the beginning of this book because I would have missed out on a really good one! 4 stars! -
I quite discovered Swedish author Kristina Ohlsson by accident when I picked up her first book "Unwanted". Fortuitous accident - because it was the first in a fantastic crime series featuring Investigative analyst Fredrika Bergman. The third book, Disappeared, is newly released and it too was a fantastic read.
The prologue's opening lines, set in the past, grabbed me immediately....
"When the film begins she has no idea what she is about to see. Nor does she realise what devastating consequences this film and the decisions she then makes will have on the rest of her life."
Present day. Two years after she disappears, the dismembered body of Rebecca Tolle is found by a dog walker in a shallow grave. When the crime scene team expand their excavation of the grave site, they find another body. But the second body has been buried for at least thirty years.
Are the two connected? Is this the work of a serial killer spanning thirty years?
Frederika and the special unit of the Swedish Federal Police are called in. Their case builds slowly, with multiple suspects - one of them close to a member of the team. I really enjoy Ohlsson's character building. She has given each main character a rich personal life that provides a more intimate reading experience.
Ohlsson is extremely clever with her plotting and delivery of her story. Interspersed with the investigation are Internal Affairs interviews held after the case has ended.
"You're here because you were in charge of an investigation that ended in disaster."
We get wee snippets of information that heighten the tension, provide subtle clues, provide teasers - and kept this reader up far too late. Midway through, I went back to read that prologue again as the pieces started to fall into place.
An intelligent, well written series (with a side of grisly) that I can easily recommend. I do hope Ohlsson plans to continue with this series. -
“The Disappeared” by Kristina Ohlsson, published by Emily Bestler Books.
Category – Mystery/Thriller Publication Date – March 04, 2014
This is another wonderful mystery/thriller from Sweden. This is the third novel by Kristina Ohlsson, the other two were “Unwanted” and “Silenced”.
A dog unearths the body of a young woman that has been missing for over two years which starts a chain of events that is not only far reaching but baffling. Detective Fredrika Bergman is living with a college professor much older than herself and they have a young child. The professor is being accused of inappropriate behavior by one of his students and unfortunately it does not end there because he is also implicated in murder. Fredrika believing in him withholds crucial evidence concerning her lover. Alex Recht, who is in charge of the investigation, just lost his wife and was involved in the initial search for the missing woman. Now that her body has been found he finds himself being attracted to the young woman’s mother. One must also mention the children’s author, who was convicted of murdering her husband, who is in a long care nursing facility who has refused to speak since 1981. Oh, and what about the snuff film.
This is just the tip of the iceberg regarding the people involved in the case and their relationship to the mystery. The case becomes more complicated when several more bodies are found in close proximity to the young woman’s, there is also a large disparity as to when the bodies were placed in the ground.
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The detective team is the part of this that works best, although in this book each of them is confronted with personal sorrow which could threaten their future work (and by the end of the book one of them is still being investigated and may not be able to return). A dark story involving a snuff film, a possible miscarriage of justice, a previously unsolved case and people in high places turning out to be responsible for terrible crimes. The loss of Jimmy who inadvertently gets caught up in the case is dreadfully sad. (and who is the man at the end watching the film in secret in his study? The facts don't fit Spencer and Victor doesn't appear to be married, so I'm wondering if it's the dodgy policeman, Torbjorn?)
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Kristina Ohlsson has become one of my favorite Nordic Noir authors, however this - the third book in her sequence of tales involving a trio of Swedish detectives - was a bit more jumbled than the first two. She has chosen to switch from the past tense to the future-tense, from story telling to interview style and it makes for a more disjointed style of reading. Despite this, as always, I was unable to determine the "whodunit" until the very end and that it is huge plus for me. Her characters are deeply flawed but not to the point that you grow weary of them. Each of her characters have substance, even if they play just a bit part in the story. I highly recommend The Disappeared if you enjoy Nordic Noir or police procedurals.
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Leave it to the Swedes. I have yet to find a Swedish mystery author that I haven't fallen for. Ohlsson is new on my list but does not disappoint. I had a hard time putting this down. The story is the third installment of the Fredrika Bergman crime series, though one does not need to read the others to enjoy this. Suffice it to say that the story revolves around a missing girl whose body along with others is discovered 2 years later, who was investigating and uncovering details about a person with a mysterious past. The rest is for you to find out!
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Ei kyllä ollut Ohlssonin parhaimmistoa. Ohlssonin helmasynti tuntuu olevan ”äärimmäinen paha” eli juoni, joka on sen varassa, että löytyy se yksi henkilö, joka on kaiken takana ja tässä yhdessä henkilössä ei ole sävyjä, pelkkää mustaa vain. Se syö uskottavuutta. Tässä kirjassa uskottavaa kuljetusta murensi moni muukin asia, enkä pidä siitäkään, että päähenkilöille rakennetaan syvyyttä tappamalla heidän läheisiään ihan solkenaan.
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Finished this book. Kristina really wrote a book that would make you want to read the next book she puts out. She has all the elements that keep us reading. Talent for writing a good story. You want to know what happens to all the characters in this book that she describes in detail.
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This book for me was drawn out a bit flat & the characters were weak the storyline just plodded along without any excitement this is my 2nd go at a SWedish author & again has failed to impress
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Okay, wenn ich jetzt sagen würde, dass „Sterntaler“ von Kristina Ohlsson ein Buch für meine Seele war, dann wäre das wohl arg übertrieben und nicht so ganz passend für diesen Thriller/ Krimi. Aber ich mochte diesen dritten Fall für Frederika Bergmann und Alex Recht so gerne und ich kann gar nicht verstehen, warum ich nicht schon längst in dieser Reihe weiter gelesen habe. Die Autorin kann einfach fesselnd schreiben und ich mag die Charaktere … was will ich eigentlich mehr. Fest steht auf jeden Fall, dass ich mit „Himmelsschlüssel“ (Fall 4) nicht so lange warten werde, schon alleine, weil ich den Band 5 („Papierjunge“) unbedingt nochmal re-readen will.
In „Sterntaler“ werden kurz nach einander zwei Leichen gefunden, beide nicht weit von einander entfernt, was unsere Ermittler vermuten lässt, dass die beiden Tode in einem Zusammenhang liegen, denn beide sind ermordet worden – wenn auch auf unterschiedliche Weise. Die zuerst entdeckte Leiche ist die von Rebecca, einer Studentin, die seit zwei Jahren vermisst wurde. Die zweite Leiche kann lange Zeit nicht identifiziert werden und liegt auch schon wesentlich länger in ihrem Grab, seit mindestens 25 Jahren. Während der Emittlungen stoßen Frederika Bergmann, Alex Recht und ihr Kollege Peder Rhyd auf das Thema von Rebeccas Studienarbeit, die sich mit der einst gefeierten Kinderbuchautorin Thea Aldrin befasst, welche selbst für den Mord an ihrem Lebensgefährten im Gefängnis saß und seitdem nicht mehr gesprochen hat.
Die Geschichte ist von der ersten Seite an spannend. Ich war sofort drin und hätte die Tage vor Weihnachten am liebsten durchgelesen, wenn da nicht noch andere ToDos auf mich gewartet hätten. Der Erzählstil von Kristina Ohlsson ist wunderbar flüssig zu lesen, genau das richtige Tempo für mich … was das Buch für mich aber eher zu einem Krimi als zu einem Thriller macht. Aber das ging mir schon bei Band 2 so und letztlich bin ich wohl auch eher ein Krimi- als eine Thriller-Leser. Da ich den fünften Fall (Papierjunge) als erstes gelesen habe, wusste ich irgendwann, worauf es in diesem Fall hinauslaufen würde. Zumindest in einem bestimmten Aspekt. Das hat mich aber nicht weiter gestört, auch wenn ich über diese Wendung extrem traurig war, weil ein absolut unschuldiger Charakter sein Leben lassen musste. Ein anderer Aspekt hat mich da deutlich mehr gestört, und zwar der Seitenarm rund um Spencer Lagergren (Kenner der Reihe wissen, wer das ist). Das empfand ich als sehr konstruiert, zumal mir in dieser Hinsicht auch nicht alle Fragen gut genug gelöst sind. Das gilt übrigens auch für kleinere Aspekte rund um die Kinderbuchautorin Thea Aldrin. Hier waren es Kleinigkeiten, nichts gravierendes … eher ein etwas unbefriedigtes Gefühl.
Nichtsdestotrotz, war das Buch ein absoluter Lesegenuss. Ich mag die Reihe, ich mag die Figuren (allen voran Peder Rhyd) und mag den Schreibstil der Autorin, mit dem sie mich auch schon in „Schwesterherz“ und „Bruderlüge“ (Martin Benner-Reihe) begeistern konnte. Umso mehr freue ich mich auf die weiteren Fälle von Frederika Bergmann und Alex Recht, wie auch auf Fall 3 für Martin Benner („Blutsfreunde“). Definitiv eine Autorin, zu der ich in einer Leseflaute problemlos greifen kann. -
Til Morthens store skrekk stjal jeg med meg to bøker fra hotellets bokhylle, for å ha lesestoff på reisen. Nok en ferie hvor jeg totalt har feilkalkulert antall sider mer dag, og endt opp med for lite bøker. Denne var ikke like god som Paradisoffer, synes jeg selv, men likevel veldig spennende og sidene fløy forbi. Jeg har virkelig fått sansen for svensk krim igjen, og selv om historien her var litt innviklet, med flere karakterer og en del tydelige frampek, likte jeg den veldig godt.
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Huomaa kuinka matkalla kirjailija ja kirjasarja on kehittnut parempaan suuntaan.
