I was very impressed that the Åhleans department store stocked an entire section of books by Swedish authors. It was mainly made up of Henning Mankell novels, but having read all them, and wanting to read something Swedish I picked this up from the Stockholm based journalist Liza Marklund. This seems to be the third book that’s been translated into English, but was the only novel in stock.
Annika Bengtzon is a young newspaper sub-editor who’s been recovering from events which I daresay happened in previous novels in the series. She comes into contact with a strange organisation that claims to be able to take people who are trying to escape spousal abuse and the like, and anonamise them – remove their records.
At the same time, there are murders afoot in Stockholm with Yugoslavian drug barons seemingly having a turf war.
Annika is a troubled character and we get plenty of her personal life – indeed it enters into the plot in a not inconsiderable manner. Not a bad book, and I’m curious to see how Annika’s character develops. This book was published in Sweden in 1997, so I’m guessing that there are fair number of additional books to be translated.