This dark, angst-filled novel is an exacting procedural, as well as a study of loneliness and how family support or rejection affects a person’s life. Published as Midwinter Sacrifice in Sweden during 2007, where it became a best- seller, Midwinter Blood launches Kallentoft’s series about police inspector Malin Fors, a single mother who battles the tequila bottle and personal problems as she tries to balance her demanding job with her demand- ing teenage daughter. Mons Kallentoft’s novel is one of the latest to cross the ocean and Midwinter Blood shows what precise, insightful storytelling US readers have been missing. When it comes down to it, the basics are the same in our countries: family ties, hate, revenge, greed, and violence prove time and again to be universal themes. Swedish bestsellers making their US debuts are now a category all their own in the mystery genre.
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