LIFETIME by Liza Marklund ****

This is written by a Scandinavian. Not sure but the names of people and towns are real winners for the "pronounce it" test.
Things weird: a phone in the bathroom; on page 44 'she looked her colleagues in the eye.' That would take real talent to look an entire room full of people in the eye. One eye. Not multiple eyes.; Tears were burning in her throat. Really? Not in her eyes? Hmmmm; a cop sent digital and hard copy photos to journalists. I think nowadays most people don't need or use hard copy photos, they use digitals in the newspapers. So why would anyone waste time passing out hard copies of photos? That's a waste of trees.

Ok so basically the story had a couple themes going on. One was a multiple murderer who killed someone shooting his junk and stole his 4 yr old kid leaving the wife to take the blame for it all. No one thought the child was alive. The wife ended up so freaking mental she really needed psychotropic drugs. She was of course found guilty. When the real serial killer was loose. Now this serial killer was unexplained as far as why she killed some of the other people she murdered. Why? So there are a lot of unanswered questions.

I thought Annika and Anne being on the same page a few times was distracting, in the beginning I couldn't differentiate them. So Annika's husband is leaving, he left the same day someone (do we ever know who or why?-no) burned her house down. Someone from another book I suppose. One I didn't read.

There are way too many sausages in the story. Hated the sausages. Isn't there anything else to eat in Scandinavia? Why not get hooked on Spam or something like that. Are these people all heart attack candidates or what? At least they don't drink friggin tea all the time, coffee drinkers. Yay. I was so so on the book. The story line was confusing, the many themes added to the confusion with newspapers losing jobs, union things, friends getting in to arguments, love triangles, geez the whole thing was stifling to read but I slogged thru it. You can too. If I can do it you can! Have fun. :)