Critics Review

• Praise for Mons Kallentoft’s MALIN FORS series

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• Kallentoft’s books have been called beautiful, exquisite and original. I can see why.

  Literary Review

• He has a completely unique style, an exquisite narrative that you drink in with pleasure . . . I’m convinced: a crime novel doesn’t get much more beautiful than this

  Kristian Stadsbladet

• Don’t bother with Stieg Larsson, Kallentoft is better

  Magnus Utvik, Sweden's leading critic

• One of the best-realised female heroines I’ve read by a male writer

  Guardian

• The highest suspense

  Camilla Lackberg, international bestselling author of The Stonecutter

• The strengths of this complex and excellent novel include realistic dialogue, thorough characterisation and concern for social issues

  New Zealand Listener

• It is Kallentoft’s characterisation and distinctive, often poetic style which make his crime-writing more memorable than most . . . It is compelling reading. The atmosphere of oppressive heat creates the sense of a hell on earth, where evil thrives. It is a powerful and disturbing vision.

  Canberra Times

• ‘Meditative. Dark. Really, really cold . . . This is a worthy successor to Larsson’s Millennium trilogy . . . This first installment in Kallentoft’s crime series is a splendid representative of the Swedish crime novel, in all its elegance and eeriness.’

  Booklist Starred Review