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The Demon of Dakar: A Mystery (Ann Lindell Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Kjell Eriksson
Creator: Ebba Segerberg
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 59621
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0312366698
Dewey Decimal Number: 839.738
EAN: 9780312366698
ASIN: 0312366698
Publication Date: April 29, 2008
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Product Description
Already a huge star in Europe and the Nordic countries, Kjell Eriksson has American critics also raving, with almost every review studded with words like "stunning," "chilling," "suspenseful," "haunting," and "brilliant." In The Demon of Dakar, Ann Lindell and her motley crew of colleagues are faced with a most baffling murder case in which all clues lead straight back to a popular local restaurant named Dakar. The owner, Slobodan Andersson, has some shady connections in his past, and his partner's reputation is equally murky. The kitchen crew is not above suspicion, either. The meat chef is an oddball, to say the least, while unbeknownst to the rest, the newest hire's personal life is a tangled web of lies. Even Eva Willman, the seemingly blameless older woman returning to the workforce as a waitress, has skeletons in her closet. And then the tension rachets up a number of notches as it becomes apparent that one murder has not satisfied the killer in the least. If Ann is to prevent a bloodbath at Restaurant Dakar, she must match wits with a killer whose motives are seemingly completely obscure. But the reader knows the killer well. His crimes are justified from his point of view. Not only that, he's a very likable fellow who is only looking for justice. As in all of Kjell Eriksson's compelling spellbinders, though, justice entails a frantic race to the finish, a race without rules and fraught with danger.
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 superb Swedish police procedural June 3, 2008
Harriet Klausner
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Uppsala, Sweden Police Detective Ann Lindell works a difficult homicide case as she struggles to identify the victim found floating in a river. The corpse is eventually identified as Armas, a co-owner of the upscale restaurant Dakar. Ann visits the other partner, Slobodan Andersson who also owns Alhambra and has questionable financing connections and plenty of enemies.
However the suspect list remains long besides Slobodan and his adversaries. Ann considers recently hired waitress Eva Willman and her two teen boys, chef Johnny Kvarnheden, homeless Konrad Rosenberg and Mexican peasant Manuel Alavez seeking to free his incarcerated brother.
The fascination with this superior third Swedish police procedural (see THE CRUEL STARS OF THE NIGHT and THE PRINCESS OF BURUNDI) is the cast as perspective is told from various participants so that the same incident is seen differently and their political viewpoints especially anti Bush runs strong. The investigation led by Ann is wonderful to follow as she, like the readers, meet the restaurant's players who all have motive to kill the victim. A slight adjustment is needed to Swedish nomenclature as delineating the names of people and places require full concentration, but THE DEMON OF DAKAR is worth the time.
Harriet Klausner
 Good Story but really clunky translation June 5, 2008
B. A. Cawley (Boston MA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love the Swedish mystery writers, ie: Henning Mankell, Asa Larson, Hakan Nesser. etc...I don't speak Swedish so I depend on really good translation to keep the story flowing with a definable rhythm. I've found this book to have a great premise and a good story but I had a difficult time with the narrative flow.
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