"I don't like crime novels. It's just not my thing, they're usually too shallowly focused on solving a half-witted crime and the characters - aw geez, don't get me started on the characters.

But this one is different. This one is a crime novel for people like me, the crime is of course ever present - but there's MORE to the novel than just that. And that makes Barbarotti a more whole crime-novel protagonist than I've ever read before.

Plus of course I'm having loads of fun with the way Nesser handles his language, the quirks of his storytelling and not least Barbarottis relationship with God.

I commented on someone elses review of this book here on GoodReads yesterday, a person who found the ending of this book to be a desperate way out of a corner. At that point I hadn't finished the novel and couldn't comment on the ending, but now I have - and I have to say I find it elegant, and well in par with the rest of the book...!

(The only trouble right now is the last, VERY LAST cliffhanger - and I don't have the next book at hand...! #gasp!)

So - if you don't like crime novels, but still want some easy, entertaining reading, do try H氓kan Nesser, and do by all means try this one."