Book #48: Souls of Air by Mons Kallentoft
Souls of Air by Mons Kallentoft
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book starts with Malin Fors' daughter Tove working in an old peoples' home. Near to the start, Tove finds one of the residents hanged (a similar premise to the first book in the series).
It appears to be a suicide, but Malin starts to uncover evidence that the man was murdered.
The setting of this book gives the narrative a chance to make a social commentary about how we treat older people. In this case, it is evident that the residents in the home have been neglected, making this novel quite harrowing in places. The obvious murder suspect seems to be the callous manager of the care home. Inevitably, you will probably guess that things will not be quite so straightforward.
The pacing of this book seemed a little bit slower than some previous titles in the series, but it was at least easy to follow. I liked that there was some continuity regarding some of the bigger plot arcs.
One of the subplots involved Malin's disabled brother Stefan, who she wants moved into a different care home. Tove's character develops too, after first looking like her whole storyline will involve her continuing to abuse alcohol like her mother previously did (I think this was also touched upon on the previous title).
Other plots got developed too, although not much seemed to happen with Malin's love life for once. I noticed that once again the character Waldemar was shown taking the law into his own hands, something that I'm going to assume will develop further in subsequent titles.
Like all previous books in the series, this one kept me guessing for a while, and after the unveiling of the killer, there were a couple of other shock plot twists near to the end. I can't wait to read the next novel, "Earth Storm".
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