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was completely taken in by this story, Free Falling is is a fictionalized account of the real assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme.
The translation from Swedish was excellent and the cast of characters were fascinating, My first Leif Persson, but will have to find more,

I'm very curious how much of this story is speculative and how much is based on real people and events.
The final instalment of Leif G, W. Persson's Story of a Crime series feels like a bit of a letdown,

Now approaching retirement as head of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Las Martin Johansson decides to take one last crack at solving the murder of Swedish PM Olof Palme, the subject of the first book in the series, Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End.


Johannson assembles a team of detectives and instructs them to comb through twenty years of disorganised archives and identify the killer.
To avoid getting noses out of joint, he does this under the cover of getting the archives collated and reorganised into a more searchable form.


Detectives Holt, Lewin and Mattei reluctantly get started on this massive task, Meanwhile the corrupt Inspector Backstrom gets wind of this and launches an extracurricular investigation of his own, of an entirely different nature.
Inevitably, these two investigations eventually converge on one figure,

My concern with this novel is that it all just seemed to easy for these investigators.
What they find in a relatively short time does not seem nearly challenging enough or difficult enough to explain why a vast investigative team could not find this out over twenty years.
Persson's ending needed to be more arcane and more baffling than it is, I was also not a fan of the frequent plot points that start up and then are quickly killed off, and the amount that is left unexplained after reading thousands of pages of this story.
I especially found the key plot point of Waltin's university club puerile and distasteful it didn't need to be as crass as Persson decides to make it.


I enjoyed the paranoia, bafflement and tension of Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End, and I wish now that I had left it there.
Fiction is stranger than fact, . .

Lars Martin Johansson, Chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation, decides to have a final shot at solving the twentyyear old assassination of then Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme.
Pulling together a small team of his best detectives, he gets them to begin a review of the huge amount of paperwork relating to the investigation, trusting that fresh eyes might spot something previously overlooked.
Meantime, Chief Inspector Bäckström, now sidelined to working in the Lost Property division, is determined to find a way to get the reward offered for solving the crime.


This is a rather strange book in that the assassination of Olof Palme is, of course, a real event, which has never been properly solved.
Although one man was convicted of the murder, he was later released on appeal, While many still think him guilty, there are about a zillion other theories too from rogue police officers to Kurdish terrorists and all, from what Persson suggests, based on the thinnest of evidence or none at all.
So from the start it was hard to see exactly where we were going to end up in this book either Persson would have to stick with the facts, leading to an untidy unresolved ending, or he would have to invent a solution.
I thought he might be going to use the opportunity to put forward his own pet theory I'm guessing every Swede has one but the book didn't really give me that impression.
Instead it read more like a kind of slow thriller and seemed to veer further from reality as it progressed.
In fact, I found all the way through that I didn't know which bits were fact and which were fiction, which meant that by the end I couldn't really say I knew more about the real assassination than I did at the beginning i.
e. , nothing. I suspect this would work much better for anyone who knows the ins and outs of the crime and investigation before they begin, but for me it all felt too confused and unclear.
The more I read, the more unconvinced I became about the merit of using a real, unsolved case in this way, especially such a high profile and recent case.


Putting the concept to one side, then, and looking at the book purely as a crime thriller worked a little better for me.
Johansson and his team are well drawn and their interactions have a convincing feel, We get to see them in their offduty lives too, which makes them feel well rounded.
This is a team of professionals who on the whole respect each other and work well together.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Bäckström obviously supposed to be the comic relief, he is an 'oldfashioned' sexist, racist, drunken, corrupt copper oh dear! Yes, occasionally he has a funny line, but really he is so stereotyped and onedimensional as to be completely unbelievable, and I tired very quickly of his foulmouthed, offensive remarks.
Maybe they were funnier in Swedish, The whole strand relating to him made very little sense as far as I could see, and I felt the book would have been better and tighter without him in it.


The fictional investigation sees the detectives discussing many of the 'tracks' followed by the real investigators, plus, I assume, some made up stuff so that Persson could deliver his own version of events.
While interesting, there is a good deal of repetition in these sections, not just of information, but often the same phrases being used time and again, all of which contributes to the book being seriously overlong.
The translation is fine for the most part, but occasionally becomes clunky and a few times actually leaves the meaning somewhat unclear.
Overall, the interest of the original case plus the good characterisation of the main team just about outweighed the annoying Bäckström and my mild irritation at not knowing where the line lay between fact and fiction.
I'd guess that Persson fans will enjoy this but, although it works as a standalone, in hindsight perhaps it's not the best of his books to start with.
½ for me, so rounded up,

NB This book was provided for review by the publisher, Random House Transworld,

sitelinkwww. fictionfanblog. wordpress. com This trilogy is an amazing work of fiction, That there is a mystery involved is merely icing on the cake, The writing is

taut and worthy of any literary fiction, The characters are evolved and dialogue is interesting, well thought out and entirely believable,
Trying to remember that this is not "true crime" is difficult because it is all so plausible.
I am in awe of the translator, who must have felt that they were actually writing a new book.

My one caveat is that this is not an easy read, It requires you to concentrate and remember people and events from three books,
The threads running through the three stories are kept lightly in hand, My one disappointment was that Lars Martin's friend Jarneburg is not so noticeable in this last book.

If you like the genre of Scandi crime fiction, If you like police procedurals, If you like gripping storylines, This is a series you really should read,
I have to say that these books take police procedural to a whole new level.
Amazing detail You feel like you are right there, turning the boxes of evidence out and rifling through pages of testimony.
It is quite a treat,
Didn't enjoy it much as it was known from the start who dunnit, Way too many unnecessary conversations described in detail, side stories and people's thoughts, The book could have been much shorter, more to the point and would have been much more enjoyable Fun to read.
A police procedural. Lot of strange characters among the suspects and the police, Sometimes I lost the thread with so many protagonists and checked back, I was surprised by the ending but maybe It had to be that way, Ένας εξαιρετικός τρόπος κλεισίματος της τριλογίας του Persson σχετικά με τη δολοφονία του Πάλμε!
Δεν αφήνει κανένα κενό στην ιστορία, καλύπτει όσα ερωτήματα έμειναν ανοιχτά από τα προηγούμενα δύο βιβλία, εμβαθύνει περισσότερο στους χαρακτήρες και η λύση με τη Θεία Δίκη έρχονται σαν από μηχανής θεός!
Για άλλη μία φορά το ζητούμενο δεν είναι να βρούμε τον ένοχο και να τον φέρουμε ενώπιον του νόμου για την καταδίκη του. Η τιμωρία έρχεται εσωτερικά, κρυφά και μόνο για τους λίγους που γνωρίζουν.
Ο Γιούχανσον, ο "άνθρωπος που βλέπει πίσω από τις γωνίες" παραμένει από τους πιο αγαπητούς πρωταγωνιστέςεπιθεωρητές και ενορχηστρώνει αρμονικά την έρευνα.
Επίσης, έρχεται στο φως ο ρόλος που έπαιξε στην όλη ιστορία και η σιχαμερή προσωπικότητα του Κλας Βαλτίν, οπότε ο αναγνώστης απολαμβάνει ιδιαίτερα την κατάληξή του.
Ο ήρωας που λατρεύεις να μισείς θα γίνει ο Έβερτ Μπέκστρεμ! Καταφέρνει να ζει σε ένα παράλληλο σύμπαν, να κυνηγάει τα δικά του φαντάσματα, να καταλήγει στα δικά του αλλοπρόσαλλα συμπεράσματα, να εκνευρίζει τους πάντες και να βγάζει πολύ γέλιο με τα παθήματά του!and/stars.augustioch måttet är rågat för Lars Martin Johansson, chef för rikskriminalen.
Han tänker klara upp Palmemordet, Tidpunkten för preskription ligger inte alltför långt bort, och hans egen pensionering kryper närmare.
Vad vore bättre än att kröna karriären med en lösning av detta fall
I hemlighet samlar han de vassaste medarbetarna, förnekar i media att en ny utredning inletts och tillsammans börjar de med fräscha ögon gå igenom det enormt omfattande utredningsmaterialet.
Christer Pettersson är inte Palmemördaren, Det slår man fast snabbt,
Ett nytt överraskande spår växer istället fram, sakta men säkert, Men om spåret är det rätta går sanningen att offentliggöra

Faller fritt som i en dröm är den avslutande delen i trilogin som inleddes med de enorma framgångarna Mellan sommarens längtan och vinterns köld och En annan tid, ett annat liv.
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