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Despite the urging of several people, I haven't checked out Nesbo's wildly popular Harry Hole series. I picked this one up partly because it's very short (even though it's been padded out to hit 200 pages you could easily read it in about two hours), and partly because I had conflated it with another Scandinavian book with the same title that I had heard was good (that one is a true crime book about the assassination of Swedish Prime Minster Olof Palme in 1986).
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While I loved the plot and its central character, the ending doesn't match the writing style.
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Bittersweet story of a Fixer.
I was reminded of Stephen King's Billy Summers and I liked it too. Then I got scared that I got taken in by a humanized assassin and my bleeding heart will not survive the real world hahaha huhuhu.
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