Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Return to Linköping with Detective Inspector Malin Fors as she attends to the second in the series of her ‘ season’ novels following on from the Midwinter blood novel.
SummerTime Death (Malin Fors 2)
What you need to know before your trail
Temperatures in Linköping, are reaching into the 90’s and going even higher – to make matters worse, there are raging forest fires around the city. Despite the danger from this, there is also a series of brutal assaults and murders of young girls.
As one girl is found sexually assaulted and drugged in a park, another one goes missing. The forensics also tell as interesting story as well as the friends of one of the girls who seems to know a lot more than she is letting on.
Then a third victim is found and the hunt becomes more personal
Travel Guide
Linköping in a heat wave is a nice place to be if you’re not Malin Fors of course. The weather is also a character in its own right – the heat really brings across a new and more stuffy atmosphere in the city – the heat and humidity bringing tempers shorter and patience none existent. ‘Midwinter Sacrifice’ highlighted the coldness and raw bleakness of the city then this is a new and very opposite atmosphere.
Malin Fors- a 34 year old police inspector working in the city where she grew up really shows us the city in a unique light. As we find another face to her home town – where she brought up her 14 year old daughter Tove and still thinks of her ex, Janne.
The heatwave symbolises so much in the book and its themes and a novel set in sweden in the heat is a unique premise! The way in which the dead girl speaks in the novel also adds a unique eerie slant to the novel and gives a spooky view of the city.
Streetview Maps
Linkoping police station
The Horticultural Society Park
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