Very nicely written thriller. The novel has the lead character Joona Linna as an investigator under some kind of review supposedly unable to be a cop but he does anyway. Some little girl and an older woman are murdered at a rehab for teenagers facility. I'm not sure what the equivalent between whatever Sweden has to what we have so you'll just have to put up with my interpretation. Foreign writers. bah.
So apparently sometimes orphans are adopted, if their parents don't want them or adoptive parents don't off they go to some sort of rehab for whatever supposedly ails them. I'm not sure all of them have emotional trauma but in this story most of them do. There are a lot of people in and out of their lives. Joona has quite a hard time trying to piece together this mystery of murders and keeps getting called by some lunatic woman with ghost stories and in the end she sort of solves the crime for Loona. Of course, as in every novel, the real police write off the one not supposed to be working and write off the case as well calling it murder by a child when Loona is getting info contradicting that diagnosis of the murder.
Eventually thru the mazes and puzzles and ups and downs (it's a long book) you get a satisfactory ending. I liked it, very involved and you had to stay on your toes for the details but it was well written and keeps you spell bound for most of the story.
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