Another excellent book in this excellent series.
It is hard to characterise what I enjoy in these books; slightly sardonic humour and cynicism (can cynicism be sardonic?), a certain world weariness which is a little surprising set in Sweden in the mid-1960s.
A good introduction to this one; sets (the series) in the context of 20th century crime writing and compares this one to Mankel's 'The Man who Smiled'; the same type of villain although I think this one is better; 'The Man who Smiled' had too much of James Bond towards the end for my taste.
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