A mystery series I can get into. I like Wallander despite his flaws. I like the bleakness of the Scandinavian setting. It's still relevant today. Will definitely read more of this series.

85% finish with this book and my e-reader is about to die. 😭😭😭

On its way back to the library unfinished. I felt the writing left a lot to be desire that I didn't care to find out who done it. Here are better written mysteries out there to waste my time on this.

A much better written book than Yrsa Sigurdardottir's "Last Rituals." Love Wallander and the dialogues between his colleagues. Reminds me a bit of Craig Johnson's Longmire.

Well, for some reason I was expecting this to be about impoverished agrarian people but instead it was a psychological study of a starving writer. It was ok, a bit weird at times, a bit verbose.

Well that was a little weird. Beautifully written. Not much going on but I do get that it's the first of a trilogy. Basically just covering the groundwork for the following two novels. Not sure I will continue them or not right now.

"People trivialize or simplify data for so many reasons."

About 70 pages in. I want to like the book. I like the plot idea. I like the setting. But it is not at all very subtle. And of those 70 pages less than half seems necessary to the story or character development. To me it's like how not to write a crime novel. But I will slave on in the hopes it gets better.