Review of Evil Water by Inger Wolf
5 stars
“Evil Water” is an exciting, intricately-plotted entry into
the world of Danish crime fiction. This is deeper than an ordinary mystery, and
the depths and breadths of characterizations will satisfy readers who seek
character-driven novels, while the edge-of-the-seat heart-dropping plot twists
and turns will appeal to lovers of thriller suspense. Readers who are
unfamiliar with Scandinavia will find that author Inger Wolf presents vivid
descriptions (for example, the brown coal mine scenes, which are effectively
heart-in-mouth) that we feel we are at home in the various settings. Interwoven
are the personal lives of some of the police detectives, and an enormously
powerful psychological mystery involving several of the characters, and
demonstrating how the ugly past really can impact the present.
The serendipitous discovery of the corpses of two young
women, who in life bore a close resemblance, catapults Inspector Daniel Trokic
of the Arhus police department into an investigation which will leave him and
his colleagues forever changed. For these are not two women from different
cases, but only two of the victims of a serial killer operation which Trokic must
race to end, before more women are murdered, for reasons known only to the
killer.
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