First off, I went into this with mid to low expectations. I just wanted to spend time with Lisbeth again and was ready for whatever would come my way. It could be pure unadulterated crap, churned out for the sole purpose of squeezing out more cash from Girl fans across the globe, which is pretty much what Larsson’s partner Eva Gabrielson believes it to be. But there was a chance it could also be a decent continuation for some beloved characters (while still making loads of […]

May my poem pass like a breeze through the sedge by the Styx, its singing bringing solace, lull to sleep those who wait. ***MONDO SPOILERS HERE***** Erlendur is off in the east, where he grew up and where his brother was lost out on the moors during a terrible storm. He periodically goes out and hikes the area, looking for a sign of Bergur’s fate. While he is there this time, he also comes across the tale of another disappearance involving a woman lost in a […]

As in the last novel in the Inspector Erlendur series, Erlendur is nowhere to be found. Covering the same period in time as the last book, this focuses on Sigurdur Oli. While he did pitch in a time or two with Elinborg’s big case, he is actually working something completely different and in his own way. While attending a school reunion where he is made to feel inferior to his old more “successful” schoolmates, Patrekur takes him aside and asks him a favor. When they meet up […]