Review: Serial murders by lobotomies
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2014
A page-turner. No slow parts. No repetition. Kept on the plot track: find the serial killer. Man or woman? Was there a common thread connecting the victims? The victims are females and males and their ages range from the mid 30s to late 60s, and they all are killed by a lobotomy while they are awake. Incredibly, their descriptions are brief and not gory. Rebekka Frank, a reporter with the magnificent help of her team, Sune and Sara, gets closer as the number of victims grows.The characters are three-dimensional. The dialogue is fine, despite the fact that the translator errs from time to time--e.g., misuses "came" when the word should have been "went."The description of the small town on a Danish island--the same one on which Copenhagen is located--is interesting and explains the effect of a serial killer on it.Read the book and you are likely to enjoy it.Barbara C. Johnson, author of Behind the Black Robes: Failed Justice and ACCUSED? GUILTY