A first time author for me - Adler-Olsson really balanced the tension between the current timeline and the retrospective timeline. Even though I had the bad guy figured out early (we can thank 10 seasons of Criminal Minds for that) I was really into worrying whether Møck (I was listening on audio so I'm not too solid on spellings) would find out what happened to Marejda in time or how he would do it. Definitely going to keep going in the series.

I am really tired of the "loner detective with obnoxious ex-wife and weird housemates and dead/permanently injured partner" trope in crime novels. I know happy people don't make good protagonists but do they all have to be Sam Spade knockoffs?

Minus one star for the audio production - it was SO SLOW that at 2x speed it sounded completely normal. AND the narrator used Danish accepts for all dialogue voices but American for all narration. Very distracting.