Bad Blood

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341 pages

English language

Published Jan. 31, 2013

ISBN:
978-0-375-42536-3
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OCLC Number:
855263597

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When a Swedish literary critic is found tortured to death in a closet at Newark International Airport, the police realize that the murderer made off with the victim's ticket and boarded a flight to Stockholm. With no clear motive in sight, Detectives Paul Hjelm and Kerstin Holm of Intercrime's A-Unit learn that the method of torture used was not only a highly specialized means of extracting information secretly developed during the Vietnam War-- allowing the victim to whisper, but not to scream-- but also that it was the modus operandi of an allegedly deceased homicidal maniac known only as the Kentucky Killer.

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reviewed Bad Blood by Arne Dahl

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Reviewed at Reviewing the Evidence. Though most veteran readers of crime fiction are heartily sick of serial killer stories, this one (first published in 1999) is worth a read. In the tradition of Sjowal and Wahloo, Dahl sees crime at both the personal level, particularly in how victims and their communities are affected, but also in a broader social context. Here, he sees parallels between aberrant thrill killing and state violence. A thought-provoking, well written (though perhaps less well-translated) police procedural with a winning cast of characters.

Subjects

  • Police
  • Serial murder investigation
  • Fiction

Places

  • Sweden
  • Stockholm (Sweden)
  • Stockholm