Hour of the Wolf by Hakan Nesser - a teenage boy is killed in a hit and run accident and somehow this leads to a murder. And another. Not realizing the first is connected to the second, the police struggle to find a motive and any clues at all. Retired Chief Inspector Van Veeteren becomes involved in a personal way. The seventh in the series. I've not read them all, some of the earlier books are harder to get in English.
4 stars
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The Hanging Girl by Jussi Adler-Olsen - in this Dept. Q installment, Carl refuses to take a cold case from an acquaintance. When there are severe consequences, his secretary Rose is infuriated and forces him to take the case. Twenty years ago a young girl was hit by a car and thrown into a tree. Only one man thought it was more than an accident. It's fascinating to watch the detectives find the smallest of threads to go back 20 years. There are little side plots that I find irritating because they don't seem to ever be resolved. I didn't finish the previous book in this series, it just didn't grab me. This one did.
4 stars
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