Misterioso: A Crime Novel
by:
Tiina Nunnally (author)
Arne Dahl (author)
The first novel in Arne Dahl’s gripping Intercrime series—considered one of Sweden’s best—Misterioso is a piercingly dark and absorbing detective thriller. After dismantling a bloody hostage situation at a bank outside Stockholm, Detective Paul Hjelm is dropped into an elite task-force assembled...
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The first novel in Arne Dahl’s gripping Intercrime series—considered one of Sweden’s best—Misterioso is a piercingly dark and absorbing detective thriller. After dismantling a bloody hostage situation at a bank outside Stockholm, Detective Paul Hjelm is dropped into an elite task-force assembled to find an elusive murderer with a sophisticated method. The killer breaks into the homes of Sweden’s high-profile business leaders at night, places two bullets in their heads with deadly precision, then removes the bullets from the walls—a ritual enacted to a rare bootleg recording of Thelonious Monk’s jazz classic “Misterioso.” As Hjlem and the rest of the team follow one lead after another, they must navigate the murky underworld of the Russian mafia, penetrate the secret society of Sweden’s wealthiest denizens, and battle one of the country’s most persistent ills: a deep-rooted xenophobia that affects both the police and the perpetrator.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307388032 (0307388034)
Publish date: July 10th 2012
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Scandinavian Literature,
Sweden,
Swedish Literature,
Fiction
The first part of the book, right up till the recruitment takes place, it felt as if Dahl was trying to be über-complex. Philisophical procrastination with a bout of crime thrown in for free, which made it less complex and more confusing. Indeed the main character tends to stray quite often into min...
Really disgusting scene in the first chapter (not gruesome just gross) that had nothing to do with any investigation: The detective wakes up with a morning erection and tries to get some from his wife but she fakes being sleep and moves away from him. He gets closer and she continues moving but then...
Al ritmo del tema que da título a la novela (Misterioso, de Thelonius Monk), el autor nos introduce en la novela a través de los ojos de sus dos principales protagonistas: por una parte el asesino, y por otra el policía. La forma en que se tratan a los dos personajes nos sugiere interesantes paralel...