I'm Travelling Alone

This book had moments of brilliance. The plot was complex and involved lots of characters so there were no areas of boredom, and to add to the perplexity of 'who did it', there were two or three storylines running together. Mia Kruger and Holger Munch are the two main investigating officers of the disappearance and murder of four six year old girls. The investigation gets personal when Holger Munch's grand-daughter goes missing. Running alongside this is a religious cult and an old people's home with ladies changing their wills to benefit the church.

I read through this at a steady pace and at times I couldn't put it down because it was so gripping or I just needed to know what happened next. What I wasn't so keen on was the characterisation or maybe just the translation of the characters personalities. I didn't really warm to any of them, even the sweet children, and I got very irritated by the drugged and drunken state of Mia and her friends. I can't imagine British officers holding down their job in that state, never mind actually solving the case. It maybe the Nordic Noir style but I don't find much love, warmth or empathy in the characters personalities or their lives – they seem to lack emotion.

Overall it was a very good start to a crime series but don't expect warm and caring characters.

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