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As well as being intriguing there's an almost supernatural element to the story. A woman with whom Westphall shared a car journey shortly before she committed suicide returns afterwards to talk to him, to give him advice. I can cope with 'what would so-and-so (deceased) have said or done in this situation?' but this goes beyond that and I had to restrict the impulse to throw the book against the wall at that point. I also had to stop shouting instructions to just look at the facts logically and stop wondering whether something that was physically impossible had happened.
Was I surprised by the reveal of the murderer? Yes, I was. It wasn't that I had someone else chalked in, but rather that I'd been too busy getting annoyed about things which I couldn't change. It was a good story and despite my reservations , I'd be interested to see where the series goes next. I'd like to thank the publishers for making a copy available to the Bookbag.
For more north of Scotland crime , we can recommend [[Ann Cleeves' Shetland Novels in Chronological Order|Anne Cleeves' Shetland novels]]. For more from Estonia try [[Purge by Sofi Oksanen]]. DCI Banks also visited Estonia in [[Watching the Dark by Peter Robinson]], but I don't think he had to go the pretty way. We also have a review of [[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) by Douglas Lindsay|the next book in the series]].
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