Indie review.
I really expected too much from this mystery thriller. I’d read reviews that gave it all four and five stars. They were wrong!
The writing is good and well crafted, but the sheer unbeleivability and lack of drive left me cold.
Alix, our heroin, is wonderful and hardworking with a sense of justice, so we’re told too many times. She is dragged into a mystery where an artist is killed and her mother’s boyfriend is blamed. Sounds like a good plot, and it could have worked, if only the inconsistencies were ironed out. For instance, Alix is shot at, three times, through here shop window, she puts cardboard over the bullet hole and carries on working. She never calls the police, or any help at all. The bullets went through a couple of works of art, which didn’t belong to her and she told the Norwegian consulate, it was kids driving by having fun????
Then, she is kidnapped, escapes, runs through and American town being shot at. No one call the police, she goes into a hotel and then doesn’t call the cops, but sneaks out the back. Sorry too unbelievable. And all for a stone. I don’t buy it.
It was a struggle to finish this book, so I’m sorry Lise but I can’t recommend Nordic nights to anyone. Two stars.
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