A review by mcastello13
The Drowning by Camilla Läckberg

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

This series inspired my interest in Nordic Noir and contemporary crime/detective fiction (but Arthur Conan Doyle gets all credit for my love for this genre more broadly) and I will always be thankful to it for that, but this novel was such a disappointment. I still liked encountering familiar characters and their dynamics, but I disliked pretty much everything else about this story. Maybe it’s just my state of mind at the moment but I felt that this moved way too slowly and the story was too outlandish for what I look for in good crime fiction. I will still continue with this series because of my overall love for it, but this one did not work for me at all, and I’m just glad I finally finished it.