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Altogether, Arkady thought, a hell of a vacation. And certainly the worst suicide he had ever attended.

"Russians know nothing about women.”
“You think so?”
“Describe a woman to me.”
“Intelligent, humorous, artistic.”
“Is this your grandmother? I mean a woman. (...)
... Now describe a woman.”
“A knife in the heart.”

"Traffic went in and out. At this point Ofelia was expert at telling a German (pink) from an Englishman (sallow) from a Frenchman (safari shorts)..."

"A samba drifted from another apartment. If Cuba sank into the sea, probably the water would percolate with sound."

Quite confused with all the names. Morel has a lover, an exlover, an exwife and 2 sisters. Besides all the victims were women and even the boy was called Dima...

TSTL the lot of them

I really didn't need to learn how to keep liquefied blood in the fridge :/

Yay! Nice final scene. Not that it was a surprise lol

‘The Eiffel Tower, Big Ben (...) the pyramids ... ?’
‘I've sometimes felt a curiosity to see the cathedral in Cologne.’
‘Why don’t you go, then?’
‘My interest doesn't amount to any more than that.’
‘What do you mean when you talk about losing yourself?’
‘I want to go out east,’ Erlendur said. ‘Vanish for a few days. It’s something I do from time to time. Mount Hardskafi ...
‘Yes?’
‘That’s my Eiffel Tower.’

This was 2 stories in one really. A murder mystery and some upstairs-downstairs drama that couldn't end well. Not bad although the author's never ending ramblings about unnecessary details made it a little boring and slowed the pace of the story. I kinda like Sir Charles he of the lumpy pockets...

One of the hazards of having sufficient money to be at one's leisure was the hazard of continually finding oneself bored by the banality of one's existence and hence forced to seek new forms of intellectual stimulation. Murder was most stimulating.

Take 2 cups of over busy detective, 2 cups of psychopath -so bad he goes around kicking dogs-, 10 cute kids who have lost their mother, 1 Irish priest -sorry Monsignor- **rolls eyes, 1 perfect Mary Poppins with no life who gets right in time from Ireland. Shake all with dead bodies in every corner and some city destruction. Add some car chases. Keep it short. And you have... expensive TV. Or this book...