It has started to annoy me that in every thriller the main police character has an alcohol problem or has messed up his/her personal relationships etc. Why can't the police be normal?! I do get it that it's easier to make them more interesting with all sorts of flaws, but non-problematic people can be interesting too. It just requires more writing skills from the writer...Otherwise Mons Kallentoft was a good new acquiantance to me, and I'll very likely read more of his books if I come across the...

Abused children, by their parents or/and schoolmates. Three murders, at least two of them coming too late. Rain, mud, dirty water, cold, rain again. Half a dozen characters, policemen included, none of them happy. A she-detective, drunkard, naughty and scandalous.And the little creature who authored these HATES Tenerife, because is warm, sunny and cheap... Poor guy.

This long and tedious novel in the Malin Fors series starts off slowly as the detective inspector continues to recoil from the near murder of her daughter in a previous installment. She can’t meet the terms of her relationship with the girl or her ex-husband, with whom has rejoined. So she begins to drink heavily, jeopardizing the love of both as well as her job. At the same time, Malin and her team of detectives are mired down in a murder case involving a rich attorney/businessman who has bough...

Dear writers, please stop it with the drunk people. You are ruining everything!

Finally finished Autumn Killing. Everybody gets to say something in this book. Keeping track of all the people wasn't a problem, but you wonder how Malin holds up under all the pressure.

I struggled with this book and at times felt I was back at school, trying to get through reading an assigned novel, that was good but just not great, but I kept going to the end. It's a style of writing that takes a bit of getting used to. Maybe a tad high-brow for a crime/murder thriller, which is actually more police procedural. It was slow through the middle, you started to wonder if the police would ever get anywhere with it. Not Kallentofts best work, "Midwinter Sacrifice" was a much better...

I wanted to like this book because generally I am a fan of Swedish crime novels. Without sounding like a psychopath, I found the murder unengaging and I struggled at times with the writing style of the author. There is so much stream of consciousness writing with a plethora of rhetorical questions and minor sentences. That coupled with a mountain of difficult Swedish names and dead bodies that get their own voice, left me wanting to hurry up and finish it.

A murder or two in the fall, in Linkoping, Sweden. A body is found in the moat of a castle, stabbed many times. The body is that of the owner of the castle, newly acquired from a family that has held it for generations. Is that family responsible for the murder?The victim was the lawyer for a scumbag millionaire who has escaped prosecution for years. Is there betrayal there? Anger?These are not all of the possible motives unearthed by Malin Fors and her fellow detectives. There are layers and la...

This series literally one of my favourites ever. I really love books that make me think about what's gonna happen, who is this and who's that. But I realised that the killers always comes out at like 3/4 or half of the book. Someone random related to the victim that will appear. Overall it is a really fun experience considering the fact that the author gives clues every time at the beginning of the book that makes people think what's going on this time. What kind of intention? Who? At the end, t...

Tried hard, read almost 50% but couldn't finnish it. Let's move on.

Why did I read it? I had read the first two books in the Malin Fors series, Midwinter Sacrifice and "Summertime Death". I had enjoyed the former far more than the latter, and I had hoped "Autumn Killing" was a return to form for Mons Kallentoft.What's it about? Jerry Petersson's body is found in the moat of Skogså Castle, his home. A self-made man, he obtained the castle from a family that had owned it for generations upon his return to his hometown of Linköping. Malin Fors struggles with the ca...

A dark book with Malin fighting her inner demons throughout and continually failing. The murder of Jerry and investigation is interesting but Malin struggle is the real story.

Mons Kallentoft does in this book what he has done before: he outlines detective police superintendent Malin Fors’ life and interrupts the continuity with a murder or two that Fors must investigate. She is a dedicated officer but she is also a drunk so her job and her life often collide with life being the loser. The murder this time is of a playboy prominent in Linköping life and history, Jerry Petersson. He has been living “the Castle,” formerly owned by the family Fägelsjö, several members of...

Why do I always start series in the middle? This 3rd book eludes heavily to things that happened in the books prior. And that had me a little lost. They probably explained why Malin turned into a raving lunatic alcoholic. They probably explained more the strained relationships between her, Tove and Janne. Either way, it took forever to get to the murderer. At least it seemed like forever. However, the last 50 pages were a whirlwind and a page turner which made me not regret reading this one afte...

This book was at first difficult to get into. The rhythm was chaotic and the syntax kept changing making it even more so. In addition, italicized lengthy paragraphs appearing to be the thoughts of the corpse were disconcerting. Still, something drew me into the story. Maybe the unusual presentation, which I though might have to do with the fact that it was translated from the Swedish. Though it was slow going in the beginning, the story started to unfold and move more rapidly and smoothly. The c...

Maybe because I have read all the mysteries by this author, I figured out who the perp was early on. But as ever, the characters and the psychology are interesting. Kallentoft is an unusual mystery writer in that he always shows how "evil" is created, usually from extreme childhood abuse. The technique of having the victims "talk" to detective Malin Fors after their death sort of softens the gruesomeness -- they seem still alive.This novel starts with the murder of a very wealthy man who rose fr...

I have not read other books in this series so this was my initial intro to the character of police detective Malin Fors. The mystery is straightforward enough. Rich, self-made and ruthless upstart Jerry Peterson is found murdered in the castle he recently purchased from the Fagelsjo family. The family was forced to sell their hereditary home due to financial problems and want it back desperately, but Peterson refuses to sell. Hence the members of the Fagelsio family become the main suspects in h...

The third book in the Malin Fors series opens with an internet billionaire found dead at home; this one follows a similar format to previous instalments in the series, with some of the chapters narrated by the ghost of the dead victim. One difference here is that Malin now seems to be able to hear the dead man speaking to her.What really appeals about this series is just how flawed Malin herself is. At the start of this book, she and her estranged husband are trying to start over again with thei...

Absolutely brilliant! Mons is undoubtedly the best modern crime writer.I love the way he integrates the bleak and at times relentless Swedish weather with the moods of the major characters, including the killer and the detectives, who themselves seem to be struggling with mental challenges as strong and warped as the psychopathic killer they pursue!One thing I really love about Mons’ crime books, and this book is perhaps the strongest example of this, is he is a real story teller, a seasoned wri...