![]() ![]() ![]() This is a good example of where the audiobook adds layers that the print book almost certainly does not. ![]() Inspector Ewert Grens comes across wonderfully in the audio version it's hard to imagine him being as good if you were reading the print version. Nevertheless, the story is creative, the narration is very good (Christopher Lane really does a good job with the Swedish accents), and the characters are believable. But since most of the world is against it too, I'm not sure now necessary it is to beat readers over the head with it. The authors are against the death penalty that seems clear. That is mostly not the case here, happily. The problem with a "message book" like this is that the authors' viewpoint tends to take center stage, and the story takes a backseat. ![]() If you don't mind that, the story is entertaining. Be prepared for a pretty blatant anti-death penalty message without a lot of subtlety. In other ways it's less good, as there's not as much of a mystery to the story as there was in the first book. In some ways it's even better, as the characters are now a little more familiar to both the authors and the readers. Listeners who enjoyed Roslund & Hellstrom's Three Seconds will likely find the followup to be just about as good. ![]()
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