Staff Pick
This dark tale of a gruesome serial killer tracked by a police detective and a psychologist is an unflinching look at the multi-generational damage caused by violence and abuse. I was thoroughly engrossed in the police procedural, but the larger story of innocence taken and survival by revenge or forgiveness and sometimes healing was the real heart of this disturbing psychological thriller. The Crow Girl is as black as a Swedish winter night with both strong and fragile characters you come to care for and to hope for. Recommended By Kathi K., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The International Sensation
It begins in a Stockholm city park where the abused body of a young boy is discovered. Detective Superintendent Jeanette Kihlberg heads the investigation, battling an apathetic prosecutor and a bureaucratic police force unwilling to devote resources to solving the murder of an immigrant child. But with the discovery of the mutilated corpses of two more children, it becomes clear that a serial killer is at large.
Superintendent Kihlberg turns to therapist Sofia Zetterlund for her expertise in the psychopathology of those who kill, and the lives of the two women become quickly intertwined professionally and personally. As they draw closer to each other and to the truth about the killings, what surfaces is the undeniable fact that these murders are only the most obvious evidence of an insidious evil woven deep into Swedish society."