Book Review: Don't Look Back by Karin Fossum

A little girl is missing and entire community is looking for her. Last time she was seen in a van with a guy with Down's syndrome who lives at the end of the neighborhood. When the little girl is found safe and sound, she reveals another crime. A body of a teenage girl by the lake. Naked, but covered, not violated. 

Inspector Sejer works on the case. Coping with his own demons, he has to connect all the pieces in the puzzle. Human nature shows up in very strange ways. No one is what it seems. Perfect families are far from perfect. Local bad boys aren't so bad at all. The inspector Sejer is not an antihero. He has a normal life of a lonely widower who lives with his dog, and talks with hours with his daughter and grandson. Just a normal old man who has seen it all. But even normal people have their own demons, haven't they?

Review: The Lost Girls Of Rome by Donato Carrisi

One phone call for the ambulance. A man is having heart attack. The team that answers the phone call finds the man in very last moment. There is a tattoo on his chest: "Kill me". The doctor lost her twin sister couple of years earlier, when someone kidnapped her. She was left with her throat cut, with one of her roller skates, red with gold buckles. In the room of that old man, in one corner, there is a a red roller skate with gold buckles, the other half of the pair. The doctor has to choose, to save a life or take a revenge.

Sandra Vega is forensic analyst, a young woman who recently lost her husband. She still grieves, his cologne is still in the bathroom, his cigarettes with the smell of anise are still in the apartment. She refuses to let him go. Until one day she receives a strange phone call from someone who knew her husband. She always thought that her husband's death was accident, but that phone call changed everything, her husband might been murdered.

In the meantime, young women are dissapearing in Rome. Young, beautiful, with families that are looking for them. They are found a month later, throat cut, not violated. Who and why is kidnapping them? And why killing them a month later?

Review: The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg

The old man was checking the house. The lady who owned the house gave him the key. But the moment he went in, he knew that something was wrong. Checking the rooms , he went into the bathroom. A woman was there in the bath tub, veins cut, naked. Blood everywhere. Leaving the house in panic, he met another neighbor, Erica, and took her in the house to show her what he had found. The body was Erica’s childhood best friend Alexandra, the owner of the house. She was lying there in the white bathroom covered with blood, beautiful like an ice princess.

Alexandra had everything. Great marriage, money, job, happiness. Why would she kill herself? Why would she kill herself like that, cutting the veins, when she was afraid of blood? 

Her best friend Erica decides to find out what really happened. The local inspector who works on the case is a friend of her. Long time ago he was in love with her. Can old flames sparkle again?

Review: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

It all happened that night in the Swedish village. An old man woke up just to find out that there was something wrong going on in neighbor’s house. An elderly couple was beaten to death and robbed. The husband died, but the woman lived long enough to say only one word to the police. At least one of the killers was foreigner. 

Inspector Kurt Wallander works on the case. He just can’t figure out why would someone robe two old people who practically own nothing. And why killing them? Was there something personal? Someone wasn’t bothering to kill them, but bothered enough to feed their horse.

The inspector’s private life is a mess. His wife left him, his daughter disappears all the time. His father barely speaks to him and becomes more and more senile. Wallander works all the time, barely eats and sleeps, drinks all the time. But one thing is certain. He is going to solve this case.