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Loading... 10 Stunden tot: Thriller (Ein Fabian-Risk-Krimi, Band 4) (original 2018; edition 2019)by Stefan Ahnhem (Author)
Work InformationMotive X by Stefan Ahnhem (2018)
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Detective Fabian Risk's daughter is in a coma at Helsingborg hospital. It's Risk's fault for getting her involved in his last investigation - and the guilt is crippling. A young Syrian refugee has been killed. It looks like a racist attack - but then more people die across Sweden. There's no link between any of the victims. Is this a serial killer who strikes at random? Police Chief Astrid Tuvesson must abandon her AA program to lead the investigation. And she needs Fabian Risk too. He is called from his daughter's bedside and forced back into service. But even with a united team, tracking a random killer is next to impossible. No library descriptions found. |
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Stefan Ahnhem continues in this instalment of the Fabian Risk series exactly where he stopped in “18 below”. Quite often you can read a novel form a series without knowing what happened before, here, however, you will certainly not understand a lot without any prior knowledge. And it is obvious that there is more to come since, unfortunately, the big questions are not answered and this is why I could not rate it with five stars.
Again, the author underlines why he is one of the big names of Scandinavian crime. Ahnhem does not tell one story, but he has several plots running parallel, oscillating between them and pushing forward the pots at a very high speed. Admittedly, I could not really say which one is the most important plot here, but it made completely sense since life isn’t a succession of stories that wait in line until their time has come. This happen at the same time and rarely do you have the time to only focus on one case or problem at a time.
Since there is so much going on in “Motive X”, the character development is a bit reduced, but Risk seems to have found his private case to investigate all alone. This will surely be decisive for his life, even more than his family life which is in a very fragile state. Whom I followed eagerly again was Irene Lilja, she surely is somehow out of control, but her motives are good.
All in all, a great read with all the ingredients for a thriller that hooks you at once. ( )