The best children's books by Scandinavian writers. Scandinavian noir: seven of the most exciting detective books Scandinavian authors for children
The best Scandinavian writers are known to everyone: Astrid Lindgren and Tove Jansson, Sakarias Topelius and Selma Lagerlöf. What can I say, after all, Hans Christian Andersen is also a Scandinavian, a Dane. Apparently they have a special, fabulous air there on the peninsula.
But today we will leave the above-mentioned classics of children's literature alone and remember others. Maybe a little less famous, but no less talented. So, our top 10! The best Scandinavian writers! The best books for children!
1. Sven Nordqvist “The story of how Findus got lost when he was little”
If we talk about modern children's books, then there is nowhere without Nurdqvist. It has become a favorite of children all over the world. And it’s not surprising, because the books in this series describe an ideal childhood: fishing and hiking, pancakes with jam and jumping on the bed, fireworks and adventures, and a meatball planted in the garden - what if something grows out of it?
2. Georg Johansson “Mulle Meck in the workshop”
Another Swedish writer who managed to create a bright and memorable image is Georg Johansson, Mulle Meck’s “book dad”. All mothers of boys know about it, and some mothers of girls do too. This skillful person is always making something, simultaneously explaining to readers the structure of a car or the principle of building a house. Why do children like him so much? Maybe because he looks a little like a wizard. Only instead of a magic wand, A has a screwdriver, a hammer and other tools with which he can do anything!
3. Fried Ingulstad “Krivulya”
What would Scandinavian literature be without dwarves? In the Christmas tale of the Norwegian writer Frid Ingulstad there are gnomes, trolls, and nisse - in general, a complete set of characters necessary for a fascinating magical story. And most importantly, there is love and kindness here, helping the homely funny baby find not only true friends, but also a new family, and a cozy home where he will finally feel happy!
4. Thorbjorn Egner “Men and Robbers from Cardamom”
Another Norwegian in our selection is Thorbjorn Egner. His tales were published in Russian back in Soviet times. And now we are pleased to read the re-release of Egner’s most famous fairy tale - about three funny and not at all scary robbers from Cardamom, who every time they go to rob, but end up in trouble. But the inhabitants of the city of Cardamom are kind people, and therefore, at the end of the book, the robbers are re-educated and find new professions to their liking.
5. Alf Preisen “Old Lady-Little-A-Teaspoon”
What a long name the old lady, the main character of this book, has! On the contrary, she herself is very small. So small that she would not have been able to cope with the most ordinary household chores if she had not had the magical ability to delegate authority and persuade the cat to wash the dishes and the pancake to turn over on its own in the frying pan. Children really like funny stories about this old lady - and teach them not to give up in any situation!
6. Anna-Katrina Westley “Shchepkin and the insidious girls”
Norwegian writer Anne-Katrina Westley is well known to readers all over the world. – children, cheerful, restless adventurers. And children sometimes have very strange friends. For example, Shchepkin. It seems like an ordinary dumb pine snag, but for the Kid he becomes the best friend. Together with Shchepkin - it’s not scary, not lonely, and certainly not boring!
7. Annika Thor “Island in the Sea”
If you are looking for interesting books for teenagers, then pay attention to the works of Annika Thor. Her best book is rightfully considered to be about the fate of sisters Steffi and Nellie, who were taken from Nazi-occupied Austria to neutral Sweden. The book touches on serious issues (war, fascism, anti-Semitism, religious prejudices), but at the same time, it is a book about growing up and first love, new dresses and cut braids, dates in a candy store and long walks by the lily pond. In a word, everything is like in life - both joyful and serious mixed in.
8. Maria Gripe “The dung beetle flies at dusk”
Maria Gripe is one of the most famous Swedish writers. It is impossible to tear yourself away from her books. is a story where reality is masterfully intertwined with mysticism, love letters are hidden under the floorboards, and mysterious events just beg for a detective investigation. Three teenagers explore the mysterious Selander Estate. And, as you know, teenagers are meticulous people, so all secrets and secrets will sooner or later be exposed!
9. Maria Parr "Tonya Glimmerdahl"
How does the old proverb sound? “It takes a whole village to raise one child”? The story describes exactly a similar situation, because the main character of the book, Tonya, is the only child in a remote Norwegian village. But this one child will create a real shurum-burum in the village and bring order to the lives of all the adults with whom fate brings her together. A kind, sincere, very funny book - about very important things.
10. Rune Belsvik “Prostodursen”
We have selected book options that you will like if you like to read Scandinavian noir.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
“Department Q” series (5 books)
A series of detective stories by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen telling about employees of the special department “Q” of the Copenhagen police, created to investigate the most important and complicated cases, police vice commissioner Karl Merke and his assistant, a Syrian named Hafez Assad.
Jo Nesbø
Harry Hole detective series
Henning Mankell
Series of books "Kurt Wallander"
If you like Swedish detective stories, then you've probably heard of Henning Mankell, a Swedish theater director and writer, author of detective novels about Commissioner Kurt Wallander.
Camilla Lackberg
Maria Lang
Arne Dahl
Jan Arnald is a Swedish writer and literary critic who uses the pseudonym Arne Dahl when writing thrillers, and writes under his own name in the fantasy genre. He is also a regular contributor to the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
"Bad Blood" is the second novel by the famous Swedish master of the detective genre Arne Dahl about the investigations of "Group A". This time the action takes place in two countries - Sweden and America, where an elusive serial killer has been operating for many years. His books mainly deal with the mafia, power, crime and scandal.
Samuel Bjork
"I'm traveling alone"
Under the name Samuel Bjørk is the Norwegian writer, playwright and singer Frode Sander Øien.
A shy, self-taught artist, Eien has also released six music albums, written five theater plays, exhibited contemporary art, and translated Shakespeare. The book “I Travel Alone” is a detective story that will make your blood run cold.
On November 9, 2004, journalist Stieg Larsson died in Stockholm at the age of 50. Stig smoked 60 cigarettes a day and, shortly before his death, signed a contract with a publisher to publish three novels. Now they have been published with a total circulation of 65 million, but Larsson never saw them on paper.
I'm one of those people who devoured the Millennium trilogy in just a couple of days, with a break for a quick nap and preparing a quick meal to eat while reading. I’m also one of those who, with manic persistence, argues that Noomi Rapace is the best Lisbeth Salander, although the Scandinavian film adaptation is generally dull, sketchy, and by the third film it is completely reminiscent of the series “Streets of Broken Lanterns.”
The heroes of Scandinavian detective stories are not heroes at all. The police are entirely alcoholics and drug addicts with broken lives, journalists are almost always on the verge of a nervous breakdown and in a state of chronic panic attack. Politicians are entirely corrupt, covering up, if not human trafficking and prostitution now, then in the past - they are certainly far-right terrorists. The owner of a business empire in a tailored suit will certainly turn out to be a pedophile or a former Nazi. The victims are cut into pieces, burned, glued to a bathtub with superglue, fed with ash and kept for several years in a pressure chamber under pressure of several atmospheres. All this chilling horror takes place on the territory of three kingdoms with the highest standard of living and happiness in general, and very often - in sleepy fishing towns and remote farms, where the investigator, having worked the required hours at the police station, picks up the children from kindergarten, has dinner with lasagna and watches Discovery Channel.
The gloomy atmosphere of detective literature in the northern countries completely kills all remnants of common sense in you. When I found myself in the sleepy town of Mölle in Skåne (southern Sweden) on New Year's Eve, I thought of nothing more than that “this harbor and this hut on the mountain” are the ideal places to find the corpse of a young girl , I simply couldn’t think anymore.
However, the cruelty and sophistication in Scandinavian detective stories, first of all, exposes all the inconvenient and politically incorrect problems of “Northern capitalism with a human face” (immigrants, drugs, terrorism, human trafficking and abuse of women and children), and only then increases circulation and sales. But one does not interfere with the other.
After the death of Stieg Larsson, the world completely fell under the influence of the dark Scandinavian noir. Millions of English people were glued to the series Forbrydelsen on BBC Four in Danish (!) with English subtitles. By the third (and final) season, it had become truly iconic: there is a fierce hunt for the original sweater from the Faroe Islands, in which the artist Sophie Grabol in the role of Inspector Sarah Lund investigates the murder of a young schoolgirl (people are not scared even by the insane price - from 230 pounds ( about 3106 UAH)), Prince Charles's wife Camilla comes to Denmark to film the third season to receive the coveted artifact from the hands of the actress herself. A little later, the American channel AMC moved the action to Baltimore and filmed a relatively successful remake.
The “Scandinavian detective” has become something akin to a Soviet quality mark, but it’s still worth figuring out who to read for stories about a mediocre German detective who took a Swedish pseudonym to enrich himself on the crest of the northern wave, but was still exposed , did not happen again.
Henning Mankell
The patriarch of the Swedish detective, as well as a theater director and civic activist. He lives mainly in Mozambique, where he fights global injustice and only returns to Sweden for the summer. Married to Ingmar Bergman's daughter. Mankell's hero is the middle-aged, tired Commissioner Kurt Wallander from the town of Ystad in southern Sweden. Mankell's novels were filmed by the Swedes, but the British series with Kenneth Branagh is the case when the actor was created for the role.
What to read:“The Man Who Smiled”, “White Lioness”, “One Step Behind”, “Blind Wall” 
Lisa Marklund
The Swedish journalist proudly continues the legacy of Stieg Larsson in the literal sense - she became the second Swedish author whose book rose to number one on the New Your Times bestseller list. Her heroine, journalist Annika Bengtzon, is in a state of chronic paranoia, but, nevertheless, unearths the most horrific details of the crimes of Swedish politicians, simultaneously picking up children from the kindergarten and preparing a three-course lunch.
Camilla Lackberg
Critics dubbed her the “Swedish Agatha Christie” and very justifiably, but with a focus on the series about Miss Marple. Her heroes are ordinary people, rural doctors, preachers and idle tourists. The sleepy town of Fjällbacka where the action takes place is the Swedish equivalent of the village of St Mary Meads. Nevertheless, the mother of three children knows how to twist the plot very dashingly, and we can also say “bravo” to the successful choice of the main characters. It’s been interesting to follow the development of the relationship between writer Erica Falk and Inspector Patrick Hedström from the very first book.
What to read:“Ice Princess”, “Letter from a Mermaid”, “Preacher”, “Taste of Ash” 
Jussi Adler Olsen
Success and recognition came to the intellectual and coordinator of the Danish peace movement with a book about the unpleasant inspector Karl Merck and his assistant, a Syrian immigrant. There are now four books in the series, two have been translated into Russian. The first novel, “Woman in a Cage,” has been filmed and is now being successfully shown at the Danish box office.
J Nesbe
Norwegian James Hadley Chase has written a dozen novels about hard-drinking alcoholic Harry Hole, who also happens to be Norway's best police officer. They are also read binge-read, sometimes then it becomes ashamed as “the day after yesterday,” but who stopped the next Friday night at the bar?
What to read: the entire series of detective stories about Harry Hole, the latest novel is “Police” 
Lars Kepler
Swedish couple Alexander and Alexandra Coelho Andoril are the authors of a series of novels about Stockholm police investigator Jon Linn, originally from Finland. TIME magazine named the first novel “The Hypnotist” one of the main books of 2010; the Swedes immediately filmed it and nominated it for an Oscar as best foreign film.
Gunnar Stolesen
A native of Bergen, Norway, he created “the most popular Norwegian detective of all time” according to the readers of the newspaper Dagbladet - Varg Veum. Veum still lives in Bergen, where he has an extensive practice. Since the 70s, as many as 16 books about Veum have been published; in the 2000s, they began to be filmed, not as a series, but as separate television films, where Veum is played by the same actor Trond Espen Seim.
What to read:“Companions of Death”, “At Night All Wolves Are Gray”, “Forever Yours” 
A distinctive feature of their works was cruelty, a twisted plot and spleen. But among Swedish, Norwegian and Danish writers there are many other masters of the genre. Our selection includes books by David Lagercrantz, Camilla Läckberg, Erik Axl Sund and many other bright authors.
David Lagercrantz
Journalist David Lagercrantz, who wrote the biography of Zlatan Ibrahimovic “I Am Zlatan”, continues the “Millennium” series by Stieg Larsson. This is his second attempt to recreate Larsson’s characters: the first part, “The Girl in the Spider’s Web,” was released back in 2015.
We meet Lisbeth Salander in prison: she was deprived of her freedom for “socially dangerous actions” (the heroine hid an eight-year-old boy and refused to cooperate with the investigation). Two months later, she comes out and begins her investigation again. This time the case is connected with Lisbeth's past: a huge part of her life turned out to be the result of a scientific experiment...
Camilla Lackberg
The peculiarity of Camilla Lackberg's thrillers is the intersection of two points of view on the same crime. The first is represented by police officer Patrick Hedström, but none of the twisted storylines can be completed without the intervention of his wife, writer Erika Falk.
In “The Angel Maker” they have to unravel a case that has something in common with the main character’s past. Ebba Stark didn’t just lose her family: all her relatives simply disappeared one day, and only she was saved. After many years away from the home where the tragedy occurred, Ebba returns to the island of Valjo with her husband. Most recently, they experienced grief - their little son died, and their marriage practically fell apart. After the move, the Stark house is set on fire and shelled. The criminals were not caught. Bye. After all, the heroes have already begun the investigation.
Silla and Rolf Burlind
The series about Olivia Rønning and Tom Stilton was opened by the thriller “Tide,” and its sequel is no less frightening and exciting. The new case involves the murder of a blind woman whose remains are buried in six different places. But around the same time, two more murders were committed that Olivia feels must be part of the same brutal plot.
Alexander Soderberg
The action of Alexander Soderbergh's novel takes place in several places at once: Stockholm, Malaga, Biarritz, Berlin - and this is not a complete geography. At the center of the story is the struggle between two criminal gangs, into which nurse Sofia Brinkman finds herself drawn. Her lover Hector Guzman fell into a coma after being seriously wounded, and Hector's brother, Eduardo, was killed. Now Sofia must try not only to get out alive from the war of mafia clans, but also to bring the bandits to clean water.
Kristoffer Karlsson
Former police officer Leo Juncker is trying to cope with the death of his girlfriend. Years pass, but the past does not let him go, because she died through his fault. And thunder struck again: the body of a shot woman was found on the next floor. At the crime scene, a pendant that belonged to Leo's lover is discovered.
Mons Kallentoft
Swedish writer Mons Kallentoft tried to create his own Lisbeth Salander, and he succeeded. Female detective Malin Fors is as charismatic and witty as Larsson's character. “Wild Spring” completes a series in which the seasons are a common motif: its previous parts were called “Winter’s Sacrifice”, “Summer Angel” and “Autumn Ghost”.
An explosion occurred in the center of Linköping, a small city in southern Sweden. Twin girls died in the city square on that ill-fated day. Malin Force, who is going through hard times, decides to take on this case, because the incident does not look like an ordinary terrorist attack: someone really wanted these particular girls to die.
Lars Kepler
Under the pseudonym “Lars Kepler” are the Andoril spouses (Swedes Alexander Coelho and Alexandra) hiding.
Once upon a time, young students of a prestigious school created the “Rabbit Hole” club, one of these children was the future Minister of Foreign Affairs. His murder opens a series of deaths, for the sake of investigating which the main character, Jon Lynn, is released from prison.
Kurt Aust
This book by Kurt Aust continues the plot of his detective novel Doomsday. In 1747, Petter Hortten recalls the events of bygone days. More than 40 years ago, at the height of the Northern War, he, as an assistant secretary, went with the Nuncio dei Conti to Norway and was responsible for the safety of the papal envoy. His recommendation was that four years earlier he, together with Professor Thomas Buberg, was able to solve several crimes at once. The aesthetics of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose are transferred to Lutheran Norway, and equally mysterious circumstances and an exciting investigation await the heroes.
Eric Axl Sund
In prosperous Sweden, teenagers suddenly begin to take their own lives one after another. They all choose cruel ways to die: drink a mixture of vodka and chlorine, hang themselves from a piano wire, etc. Their stories are different, but before their death, each of the suicides was captivated by the strange and at the same time creepy music of the singer Hunger, and teenagers listened to his songs on old audio cassettes. Jens Hurtig, who had already experienced the suicide of his younger sister, takes on the task of solving the mystery.
Anders Roslund, Stefan Thunberg
"Made in Sweden" is a case where a story that looks like a nightmare is actually based on real events, and is told by a direct witness. Screenwriter Stefan Thunberg's brothers were among the country's most dangerous criminals, and together with writer Anders Roslund, he tells readers all about what happened. The robberies of the book's heroes are characterized by constant cruelty: the brothers kill everyone who prevents them from carrying out their plans. This amazing story literally screams about one of the unresolved problems of the modern world - domestic violence, which provokes people to commit much more serious crimes.
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Scandinavian detective stories are a special world, on which very talented people with a rich imagination work. Of course, every reader has his own favorites in the action genre. For us, this is the Norwegian Jo Nesbø. His style, plot dynamics, shocking endings and colorful characters (including the main, almost brilliant Inspector Harry Hole) do not allow you to tear yourself away from the novels! Once you read the first few pages, you can't wait to get to the end to find out whose hands are stained with blood! In today's list of 10 Scandinavian detective stories, of course, it will also include Nesbø's books... But first things first.
The Girl Who Stopped Talking: Two Corpses and One Disappearance
Acquaintance with the Norwegian writer Trude Teige began for the Russian-speaking audience with the novel “The Girl Who Stopped Talking,” which was translated and published in 2014. Although Teige is well known in her homeland: she has been a television journalist for more than 20 years, published in The New York Times, and writes not only thrillers, but also cookbooks and historical prose. For some reason, the title character of the detective story, Teige Sissel Voge, withdrew into herself and did not speak. Then her father was killed, and after a while Sissel herself died. Probably Voge's neighbor, teenager Tune, saw something - she disappeared. Do the villains want to eliminate a witness or find out some important information from the schoolgirl?
Owl: a mysterious ritual
Another twisted and scary novel about the disappearance (and then murder) of a young girl - the Scandinavian detective story "The Owl" by Samuel Björk - has been nominated for a Norwegian booksellers' prize. This is the second volume in a series of works about homicide partners Holger Munch and Mia Kruger. They must understand what kind of ritual was performed on the corpse of a dead resident of a shelter for “difficult” children. Feathers are scattered around the unfortunate woman, and on the discovered video recording the outlines of a stranger appear, who also decorated himself with feathers - the feathers of an owl.
Hummingbird: Ancient Aztec Deity
Another bird - the graceful beauty of the hummingbird - appears in the novel by the Finnish detective and singer Kati Hiekkapelto. And the novel itself is called “Hummingbird”: a figurine of this bird (revered as a deity by the ancient Aztecs) was found on a dead girl jogging in the park. The poor thing was killed with a shotgun, and the victim allowed the villain to get close to him. So she knew her killer? The case has been assigned to rookie investigator Anna Feketa. She had not yet had time to properly get used to the police, and she got a partner - it couldn’t be worse. But Anna is not used to giving up! The writer continued the series about the diligent and scrupulous Anna, whose parents, Hungarians, moved to Finland from the former Yugoslavia. And the novel “Hummingbird,” published in 2013, became the “first sign” in a series of books.
Dark Secrets of Westeros
The Scandinavian detective story "Dark Secrets" takes place in Westeros. No, no, this is not the mainland from Martin’s books and the popular TV series, but a provincial Swedish town, where forensic psychologist Sebastian Bergman has returned. Business brought him to the city of his childhood - he needed to get rid of his parents' house (he had a fight with his father and mother a long time ago). While the papers for the sale are being drawn up, the body of a young boy is found in Westeros. Bergman volunteers to help the police and inadvertently brings to light a bunch of unpleasant secrets - from the lives of students of an elite gymnasium, local inhabitants and even his newly-made colleagues. “Dark Secrets” also opens a fascinating book “franchise” with a cross-cutting character, “uncomfortable” in communication, unable to work in a team, but a talented profiler Bergman. The authors of the books are actor, presenter and playwright Hans Rosenfeldt and his colleague, producer and screenwriter Mikael Hurt.
Ice Princess: a beauty in her own iceberg
The fate of another Swedish detective/thriller author, Camilla Läckberg, is surprising: although she was fond of creating her own handwritten books from school, the girl received an economics education and worked by profession. However, her calling found her on her own (although her relatives helped a little, giving Camilla a course on “How to Write Crime Novels”). As a result, the debut book “The Ice Princess” was born, which became a bestseller. This is the first appearance of the heroine Camilla Erica Falk, who is working on biographies of compatriot writers, but suddenly decides to switch to detective stories - after her childhood friend, the beautiful Alex (whom Erica has not seen for many years) is found dead. An elderly man, a resident of seaside Fjällbaki, looking after the mansion of the capital’s “thing” Alex, came to heat the boiler before the owner’s arrival and saw her frozen in a bathtub filled with ice. The case (which was entrusted to police inspector Patrick Hedström) interested Erika, who came to the house of her parents who died in the accident. Thus began a strange “collaboration” between the writer and the detective, which grew into a novel.
The smell of salt, the cries of birds: reality participants are in danger
The series of detective stories about Patrick and Eric is a head-scratching detective mystery and, at the same time, a light read about the love (and then family) experiences of the main characters. All the novels in the series are read in one go, and in our list we want to include not only “The Ice Princess”, but also the fourth book about Hedström - “The Smell of Salt, the Cries of Birds”, in which Patrick is tasked with catching the killer of a participant in a television project organized by producers in the capital. They decided to bring together the most prominent people from several reality shows (from a talent competition to something like “House 2”) and settle them in the small town of Fjällbaka. However, it turned out to be something like a nest of snakes, which led to the tragedy. By the way, this town is the birthplace of Camilla Läckberg herself; the events of all her works take place here.
Hypnotist: get the witness to talk
Another author duo on our list of Scandinavian detectives is Alexander and Alexandra Coelho Androil. They are not only colleagues and namesakes, they are husband and wife, releasing one bestseller after another (under the male pseudonym Lars Kepler). It all began in 2010, when the couple presented to the public the shocking novel “The Hypnotist,” which immediately became a sensation not only in the authors’ homeland, but also abroad. This was in 2010. Now the cycle about detective Jon Lynn already includes six novels. And at the very beginning, the commissioner had to investigate the massacre of an entire family: its head was killed in a sports club, and his wife and daughter were killed in their own home. Only the son survived and was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The commissioner is in a hurry to find another member of the family - a girl who did not live with her parents: what if the maniac was targeting her too? And in order to “wake up” the boy’s traumatic memories and understand who committed the crimes, Linna resorts to the help of a doctor who knows hypnosis.
The girl with the dragon tattoo and more
It's good to know that Lisbeth Salander, the hacker freak from Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, is continuing her criminal pursuits (still with journalist Mikael Blomkvist). Larsson’s “flag” (and his characters) was “picked up” by his colleague David Lagerkrantz, first releasing the Swede’s unfinished novel “The Girl Who Got Caught in the Web,” and in the fall of 2017, “The Girl Who Was Searching for Someone Else’s Shadow.” However, it doesn’t hurt to remember where it all began. Therefore, our rating of the best Scandinavian detective stories includes the novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (original title: “Men Who Hate Women”). And if you think that you know this story very well (after all, you watched the film adaptation of the novel with Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig!), then you are mistaken. Fincher's film script differs from Larsson's book.
Pentagram: a tree is easier to hide in the forest
Here we come to our absolute favorite. Although all the books in our top list are good, nothing compares to Jo Nesbø's mastery! The Norwegian's talents are multifaceted: he is a rock musician, composer, journalist, author of children's books and, of course, incredible detective stories about the alcoholic inspector Harry Hole (whiskey does not prevent him from being Norway's main specialist in serial killers). The Harry novel series consists of 11 novels. Four years later (after the detective story “Police”) Hole returned - in the thriller “Thirst”. Having become an exemplary family man and teaching at the Academy, he helps his ex-colleagues catch the next maniac. We invite you to get acquainted with the full cycle of novels, but we remember a few most of all. For example, “Pentagram” (the fifth book about Hol), in which the number “five” became the leitmotif: a human palm with five fingers and the pentagram itself (five-pointed star). At first, it seems to the detectives that a maniac who has gone crazy on the top five is operating in Oslo. But it's even more complicated!
The snowman is out hunting again
We managed to read several not very flattering reviews about the new thriller with Fassbender and Rebecca Ferguson “The Snowman” (and the American box office, as usual, did not very kindly greet the film, which does not take place in the States). Have the filmmakers really screwed it up? If so, it's a shame, because The Snowman, the seventh Harry Hole book, is fantastic and exciting, one of our favorites in the series. The inspector faces a dangerous enemy who has remained elusive for almost two decades. Having survived childhood trauma, the maniac again and again “takes revenge” on his own mother, brutally killing women whom he caught in adultery. Will Harry be able to identify the sadist, because it seems that he is an excellent disguise and is much closer to the policeman than Hole himself thinks!
