PositiveWorld Literature TodayAlsterdal manages the chapter and plot momentum quite well, showing skills developed early on as a book editor. Unlike many Scandinavian crime novelists, Tove Alsterdal is not concerned here with clever killers from the upper middle class. Nor does the novel target the political system or the police. The crimes involve folks in a declining but beautiful rural area, among the thoughtless young and those who will cover for them—remembering what they concealed.