Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Visit Linköping and the surrounding area this time in the autumn rains in the third in the Malin Fors series of Swedish crime novels.
Autumn Killing ( Malin Fors 3)
What you need to know before your trail
Jerry Petersson’s body is found in the moat of Skogså Castle. The castle had been his home ever since he had obtained it from a family who had owned it for many generations.
Malin Fors finds the case hard to investigate as she is still bearing the scars of the kidnap of her teenage daughter the year before. Still, as she discovers more about Jerry – a notoriously ruthless lawyer and entrepreneur – the more she finds she needs to know. The secrets within the castle were also the secrets of the town and its past. Where Malin’s past comes into it, she is afraid to find out.
Meanwhile, Malin has a serious drinking problem which is steadily getting worse…..
Travel Guide
Mons Kallentoft’ describes Swedish society and the region in and around Linköping in a very different way to the sometimes ‘cosy’ feel of Camilla Läckberg’s Fjällbacka.
Skogså Castle appears to be fictional sadly but the nearby Ekenäs castle, a renaissance castle is a nice place to read the book and wonder….
The rains bring up the rats and bugs in the book and we think that a walk around the city wondering what might float up next made us feel afraid and really brought the book to life! Just as well fiction and fact don’t always match.
The rains here as with the heat of the second novel and the snow of the first one really shows the city in a new light and the leaves on the trees and the autumnal seasons and colours really show up here although with the cold and the rain are still overshadowed by Malin’s personal problems.
Where Next?
