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|title=End of Summer

|author=Anders de la Motte

The story covers old ground: the missing child, the lack of evidence, the usual suspects, the tracks and trails that may or may not lead somewhere. It's testament to the author's skill that it holds the attention. The tension is ramped up and allowed to relax, time and again. All of the clues are there, but they're not all actual clues, and those that are could fit a number of scenarios. It's always hard to know what (if anything) might have been lost in translation, so I can't speak for the emotional hold of the original Swedish, but the English edition – for me at least – rarely dragged me in on that level. It worked well as a mystery and I did switch off a normally-watched TV show because I needed to go back and find out what happened, but it was an intellectual curiosity rather than an emotional link to the characters.

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