Torquil MacLeod

Meet me in Malmo

Detective: Anita Sundstrum
Time:       2008
Setting    Malmo, Sweden
Genre:    Scandi Noir

This is heralded as the first in the Detective Inspector Anita Sundstrum series. An English journalist arrives in Malmo to interview a university contemporary who is now a Swedish celebrity only to walk into his flat to find the film star wife murdered. Until the discovery of the body the pace is slow but it speeds up after this. There are a number of possible leads until the crime is solved and there is a final last page twist. 

Sundstrum is part of a team of detectives with differing personalities, including the almost inevitable over-bearing boss although he can be supportive  of Sundstrum's insights and pursuit of her own theories.

A promising start to the sequence

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