Good Girls Don’t Tell

Travel Guide

Stockholm

This is a Stockholm the tourists don’t see. From the lovely park where the burned victim is found, this is the dark and chilling side to Stockholm you’d really not rather see in real life. A man viciously tortured to death and then only  a few hours later in a sedate nursing home just outside of Stockholm, his mother attacked too.

There’s a lot of visits to the more salubrious side of Stockholm too however -the brown car park that is the Akersberga shopping centre where the home is and the approach to it builds a sense of tension and remoteness to it, rather like how a animal is led into a trap. The outskirts of the city and the city itself appears dark and cold here – bereft of all colour. There are plenty of visits to the city’s hospitals and morgues -the smell of linoleum reminding the characters and the readers of the transience of everything. The buildings on Kunsholmsgatan where he later goes are grey and insipid – like the people walking by. The only hint of movement in this grey world is someone hell bent on murder.

Buenos Aires/Argentina

The link to the Argentinian junta takes the journey and the investigation to a very dark park of history. This was a period of brutal beatings, the many people who vanished during the junta’s military regime.Some of those who were involved in the underground activities of the junta were pardoned under the next government. Others went into hiding. No one really told their secrets of what they had done or had done to them during this time. But the consequences of this violent period have repercussions far and wide.