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Title: Oof...how clunky can you get?
Review: I'll blame the translator. Huge fan of northern European detective fiction - Mankel, Nesbo, Larson, et al. - so ordered Tursten's book. Not even close to the others, partly because of what I assume is a terrible translation - sorry but the words "slammer" and "consolingly" don't fit in the same sentence. The translation veers between slang and Henry James - and not for any particular reason - Steven Murray just does not have the "flow" that other translators have. Too bad as for Huss, she is an OK character, although her reflections on her life are rather cliched. Her observations and ruminations lack something that other writers from northern Europe seem to have found. I've moved on to Iceland and Indridason who is right there with the best. As for Tursten and Huss, go to the library and read a few pages/chapters before investing.
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