Borderline

March 1, 2015
In the ninth book in this Scandinavian series, reporter Annika Bengtzon gets a tip about a body found behind a local school, and she arrives on the scene with the police. A woman has been stabbed to death, the fourth in a string of similar Stockholm murders. The police don't think the cases are related, but Annika disagrees. Her investigation gets sidelined when her on-again, off-again husband, Thomas, gets kidnapped. He'd volunteered as part of an EU delegation in Nairobi, mostly because of a hot young British delegate, but the group all go missing, their driver shot and killed. Thomas' boss is with Annika to handle the exorbitant ransom demands, and they get more involved than they probably should. The point of view switches between that of Annikaher investigation into the serial killings, and the effects of the kidnapping on her and the childrenand that of Thomas and the other kidnap victims, who are living in deplorable conditions and are constantly afraid of execution. Highly suspenseful and sure to appeal to Scandinavian-crime fans of Stieg Larsson, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Camilla Lackberg.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)