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A comedy of errors from start to finish. A most inefficient bank robber. Hostages who are the worst ever hostages, an apartment viewing that is anything but, Stockholmers and a rabbit. Seriously? Yet, oh how I needed this book! The funny thing is I never took to his first book. A grumpy man in his fifties, maybe because I was married to a sometimes grumpy man in his fifties, so I didn't even bother to read Backmans next two books. Beartown though, called to me and I loved it and everything else he has written since. Just how it goes sometimes.

He has a very distinctive writing style, and yes he is witty, but so much more. He gas a remarkable insight into people, their doubts, motives, the things they use to cover up the things they can't face. He shows it here, because up though amusing it is also about friendship, love, caring, respect, lack of judgement and families, those we have and those we make.

Don't think I will ever hear the word Stockholm without chuckling.

ARC from Edelweiss.