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    <body><![CDATA[I'm beginning to think that if you're a writer living in the subartic you produce only dense, dark books. This is certainly no exception, although so lyrically written and engrossing the rather cliche-d plot doesn't matter at all.  Moody: both people end environment reflect the darkness radiating fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62189011">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[THE BLACK PATH is the sort of book that you need to read with your preconceptions and expectations firmly locked in a drawer.  Having not read the second book in the series yet, I know something happened to Rebecka in that book, but the details aren't important to understanding, from the start of TH...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29180516">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide memorably in Åsa Larsson’s masterpiece of suspense—a tale of menace, hope, longing, and darkness beyond imagining.<br/><br/>The dead woman was found on a frozen lake, her body riddled with evidence of torture. Instantly, Inspector Anna-Maria Mella knows she needs help. Because the dead woman—found in workout clothes with lacy underwear beneath them—was a key player in a mining company whose tentacles reach across the globe. Anna-Maria needs a lawyer to help explain some things—and she knows one of the best.<br/><br/>Attorney Rebecka Martinsson is desperate to get back to work, to feel alive again after a case that almost destroyed her. Soon Rebecka is prying into the affairs of the dead woman’s boss, the founder of Kallis Mining, whose relationship with his star employee was both complex and ominous. But what Rebecka and Anna-Maria are about to uncover—a tangled drama of secrets, perversion, and criminality—will lay bare a tale as shocking as it is sad…about a man’s obsession, a woman’s lonely death, and a killer’s cold, cold heart.]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;Ihre Augen waren offen und zu Eis gefroren, sie waren ganz weiß, wie mattes Glas.&quot; Inna Wattrang wurde ermordet. Das bewährte Ermittlerteam, Polizeikommissarin Anna Maria Mella und Anwältin Rebecka Martinsson, nimmt sich des Falles an. Sehr zur Freude des Lesers - denn auch im dritten Band der &quot;Rebecka-Martinsson-Reihe&quot; überzeugt die preisgekrönte schwedische Autorin Åsa Larsson nicht nur durch eine einfühlsame Zeichnung der Figuren, sondern auch durch die atmosphärisch dichte Beschreibung der Landschaft und des rauen Lebens im höchsten Norden Schwedens.<p> Die Ermordete war leitende Angestellte der international agierenden Grubengesellschaft Kallis Mining, die ihren Hauptsitz in Kiruna hat, der nördlichsten Stadt Schwedens. Doch ob das Mordmotiv in wirtschaftlichen Verflechtungen oder in einem Beziehungsdrama zu suchen ist, bleibt lange im Unklaren. Zunächst forschen die Ermittlerinnen in alle Richtungen - und erfahren so immer mehr über die Vergangenheit von Mauri Kallis, dem aus kleinen Verhältnissen stammenden Begründer der Grubengesellschaft Kallis Mining, und seine Beziehung zu den Geschwistern Inna und Diddi Wattrang. Inna und Diddi entstammen dem verarmten Hochadel und waren vor langer Zeit eine Art Symbiose mit dem begabten Geschäftsmann Kallis eingegangen. Sie öffneten ihm die gesellschaftlichen Türen für seine risikoreichen Geschäfte, im Gegenzug verhalf er ihnen zu finanzieller Liquidität; alle profitierten. Bis der rätselhafte Tod Inna Wattrangs alles aus dem Gleichgewicht bringt...<p> Åsa Larsson schreibt in klarer, knapper Sprache. Allein der Rhythmus ihrer mal lakonisch kurzen, mal episch ausholenden Sätze vermittelt ein genaues Gefühl für die Stimmungen der Protagonisten, für die dramatischen Momente. Überhaupt ist das Gefühlsleben der Figuren ein wichtiges Element in diesem - vielleicht könnte man sagen: Weiblichen - Krimi: &quot;Als sie seine Stimme hört, fährt ihre Hand durch ihre Haare. Als ob er sie sehen könnte. Sie hat an ihn gedacht. Oft.&quot;<p> Immer wieder geleitet die Autorin den Leser hinab in die Traumata der kindlichen Vergangenheit, und auch die Schilderung des Familienlebens der Kommissarin sowie der ängstlichen Verliebtheit von Rebecka Martinsson kommen nicht zu kurz. So ist Åsa Larsson mit ihrem dritten Kriminalroman nicht nur ein ungemein spannendes, sondern auch ein emotional bewegendes Buch gelungen; umso erfreulicher, dass die Autorin noch drei weitere Folgen der Krimireihe mit den sympathischen Ermittlerinnen geplant hat. <em>--Ulrike Künnecke, Literaturtest</em></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The genre:  Swedish authored mystery novels, has produced some very entertaing reading for me as well as insights into the MN mindset that is often a mystery to me in itself.  This is the 3rd of a series buyt can be read as stand alone.  I plan to read the first 2.  This one has some intersting info...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46861759">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The third in a series featuring the two detectives Anna Maria Mella, Sven-Erik (of the big moustache) and lawyer Rebecca Martinsson.  Lots of blood and gore but the plot line of company espionage and country intrigue is fairly believable.  The landscape is cold and harsh just like the plot.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[satisfyingly complex characters and plot. I enjoyed the Scandinavian setting and the distinctly non-North American flavour. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining murder mystery, much better than the first novel Larsson wrote in the series (which I thought was too gory, yuck).  Not a typical mystery I suppose, but very elaborate from a character development standpoint, and that kept me pretty engaged.  An easy read, and even more intriguing that ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43915619">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really liked this one, but I have not read an asa larsson i didn't like. ]]></body>
    
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