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Killer's Art by Mari Jungstedt. An Anders Knutas Mystery.
Review summary: For the most part, this murder mystery is an engrossing police procedural. The overall story arc is nicely conceived and constructed, and plays out in an appropriate manner with the requisite red herrings and false steps all contextually relevant. Two elements of the story don't quite work, however, and for very different reasons. (Click here for text of full review.)
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Killer's Art
Mari Jungstedt
An Anders Knutas Mystery
Stockholm Text (January 2013)
Publisher synopsis: A cold Sunday morning, a man is found murdered and hanged on the old city wall that surrounds Visby, capital of Gotland. The victim is art gallery owner Egon Wallin. When the famous painting “The Dying Dandy” is stolen in Stockholm, disturbing links to the murder of Egon Wallin slowly start to surface, taking the reader into the exquisite Swedish art world and underworld of prostitution and drugs.
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