Authors : Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo
Professor's intro : Whomever had encounters with The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo (which by the way is awesome!) should be more familiar with this book.
So I read it. The Laughing Policeman is the 4th installment in the 10-book series by husband and wife team Sjowall and Wahloo. The background is Sweden, and it is categorized as noir fiction.
This being my 4th official noir fiction book, I kind of have an expectation and a basis of judging already, which in this case clouded my judgement far too much for my liking.
But here it goes.
A mass murder of 9 people in a bus happened on a dreary, rainy night. As the crime scene was "tampered" by 2 deadbeat cops who tried to get the first glimpse, the case was meeting a dead end. A team from the homicide squad was assembled, and as time crept by, additions were made from other precincts. All were puzzled by this big question, why on Earth is Ake Stenstrom, one of their own, was on the bus and subsequently was killed?
The uncertainty of everything brought all if them in circles, abandoning norms to second-guessing and pure trajectories.
Was this case a result of an unfinished case that happened years ago?
Plot twist: the end was already in the beginning.
Case solved.
And my headache intensified with the names and places that I can't get myself familiar with. This is a big topic in class, i predict.
Rating : 8/10
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