Many thanks to NetGalley, Ballentine Books, and Camilla Grebe for the opportunity to read this Scandinavian crime thriller. As this book ramped up towards the end, I literally could not put it down - I even did an extra mile on the treadmill to finish it which is saying something!
Malin is called to work a cold case in her hometown involving the murder of a young girl years ago - a case that Malin actually set in motion when she was a teenager. She has a love/hate relationship with her hometown - all the businesses have shut down, there are few people left (her mom, aunt and nephew still live there), and the government moved refugees into an abandoned building. The townspeople are none too happy to see that these refugees are receiving more help from the government than they are as citizens.
As Malin's team investigates, one of the investigators is missing and another has been injured and is discovered to have dementia. Another hometown teenager, Jake, finds the diary of the investigator with dementia - Hanna had obsessively written in it so as not to forget anything. But Jake has his own secrets that prevent him from disclosing the diary. Written in alternating voices, this story has a twist ending that I certainly never saw coming.
A great read!
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