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|author= Malin Persson Giolito

|title= Quicksand

|rating= 5

|genre= Crime

|summary= Is there something about Scandinavia, that makes its inhabitants identify with quicksand? This is the second book with the same title by northern writers that I've read this year, and we're only into April. For clarity from the outset, this has nothing to do with Henning Mankell's conversational memoir reviewed elsewhere on here, but we are back in territory he would probably have been familiar with. We're in a Scandinavian courtroom, Swedish to be precise – we're about to begin the trial of Maja Norberg.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471160327</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author= Chris Packham

|summary=Nathan has a steady job as an outdoor pursuits instructor but that's not his first career. Ten years earlier he'd been a teacher when it all went dreadfully wrong during an orienteering event for his secondary school students. Four young people disappeared suddenly but only one was found. Malnourished and in shock, Olivia was never able to tell anyone what happened. A decade later a body is found, Nathan starts having hallucinations and Olivia crosses his path again. Whatever began that day isn't finished. ''Evil will find a way through.''

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785654381</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Friedrich Durrenmatt and Joel Agee (translator)~~

~~|title=The Judge and His Hangman (Inspector Barlach 1)~~

~~|rating=4.5~~

~~|genre=Crime~~

|summary=We're in rural, rainy, wintery Switzerland soon after the Second World War. A man has been found on a remote mountain road. It would appear he opened his car door to someone who proceeded to shoot him dead. Leading the investigation is Inspector Barlach, an elderly and it seems chronically ill policeman, who has no fondness for new-fangled ideas of criminology, but he has employed Tschanz to do his leg-work for him – Tschanz who seems much more keen to find evidence and to share it, and not rely on gut instincts. Neither particularly want to be out in all weathers sorting the crime, but the victim was certainly in the wrong place at the wrong time, for he was a fellow policeman and nobody knows why he was there – or if they do they aren't saying. What had he been up to, and which way of policing the case will get to the answers first?

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06XS63KQK</amazonuk>~~

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