The book opens with a woman found dead in a local cemetery. The central character, Annika Bengtzon, picks up a call about the body from the 'tip-off' hot line at the newspaper where she is working as a trainee journalist and she goes off to investigate. She is keen to prove herself and, to begin with, all goes well. But then an alternative 'take' on the murder story is put forward by other reporters in the media and Annika finds herself vilified as an intrusive, insensitive hack.
That is basically it.
There is an interesting (to me) political plot strand which runs through the book and may or may not be relevant to the murder. Mysterious diary entries are dotted thought the book - what is their significance?
It all comes together very cleverly at the end but overall I found this a dull, low-key book. Annika herself is quite irritating and spends most of the book on the point of crying or throwing up. The murderer is pretty obvious from the start and there weren't the plot twists and turns that this reader was hoping for.
It's ok and I would read another book by Marklund but, on this showing, there are much better Scandinavian crime writers out there.
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