The fifth book in the Malin Fors series and Malin finally gets to solve the crime that's haunted her since the first book "Midwinter Sacrifice", involving Maria Murvall. This quite long book has a quite simple central plot involving a group of sexual sadists from the high echelons of Swedish society. As Malin and her team close in on the group in the last quarter of the book, the action is really thrilling. However, I felt earlier parts of the books were dragged down by episodes which were irrel...

Books like these are perfect when you're in the right mood. Just kept reading as I didn't want to stop, and didn't want it to end. A horrific story that sucks you in.

Finally we undertand what happened with Maria Murvel. Malin Fors Demons can now rest. And what a great way to close the chapter!

Powerful men, susceptible women, evil incarnate, horrific mutilation. Malin Fors and her team find themselves investigating the murder of several young women found in various locations in the forests of Sweden. Several other young women are in mental wards unable to communicate, attacked and mutilated in the same way. Are the cases connected? What, other than the form the attacks have taken and the discovery of these women alone in the forest, have the cases have in common, if anything. Initiall...

I missed Malin and being privy to her innermost thoughts and feelings. Once again, I think she is a fascinating character. Deeply flawed, yet real. And her thoughts are so honest and bleak, often akin to my own, which adds to the appeal of it. This is a great series!

felt the latest in the malin fors series could of been shorter as was slightly long winded but apart from that still the dark Swedish crime thriller

Well-written story that keeps you reading from start to finish - I’m a big fan of Kallentoft’s series about Malin Fors and this one doesn’t disappoint. But I find it to be one of the darker novels in the series, that raises philosophical questions such as ‘is evil an inevitable part of human life?’.

This was my first visit to the world of Kallentoft and it was a memorable trip. The subject, hammered into a reader’s brain, is sexual violence and brutality. It is seen through the eyes of a diminutive but tough as nails detective inspector, Malin Fors. Much of the dialogue occurs in dreams, much as well in italics, marking the voice of a dead person or a person about to be killed. Those people are women, mostly young and helpless but also subservient to men of power and influence. Malin Fors i...

This case was Malin Fors best one I've read so far. Mons Kallentoft really must have thought along time to figure out how many turns the story would take and how many red herrings he would put into it. Can't wait for the next book.

Mons Kallentoft has a way of writing that gets under my skin and clenches my heart and won't let go. The Swedish author's fifth book in his Malin Fors series The Fifth Season finally delves into the much pondered mystery of Maria Murvall's violent rape, which left her emotionally scarred and mute. After finding a mutilated female corpse in the woods, detective Malin Fors immediately finds similarities with the Maria Murvall case. Soon, Malin becomes even more obsessed with the case and she and h...

The story is excellent and he unveiled a very intricate web slowly and believably and enjoyably. BUT. He has this really bad writing habit that drives me nuts. The single word paragraph. It goes something like this - (just making something up off the top of my head)Bob had a burger for lunch and thought about his upcoming dinner with Sophia. Sophia.Pizza is more Sophia's style and that's what she had for lunch.Last year's vacation to Vale was a success, maybe they'll go again this year.Vale.The

Not the Best of the books about Malin Fors. I got the plot pretty quckly and felt like it took ages to get from start to finish. Eventhough we get answers, it is for me the worst of the books in the Series i have read so far..

An excellent thriller from beginning to end!

This is what happens when you get a white male author trying to write about female oppression, while at the same time trying to emulate and out-rape Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, all while patting himself on the back for knowing what women go through and writing just such an amazing book about it. I couldn't even finish this steaming turd-pile. It was so poorly written, and I get that the dude was trying to make a point about violence against women but this was so over-the-top it was practically

I skipped large passages of this book. It bordered on torture porn, but was also appallingly written, with its overblown and verbose descriptions. The author tried all sorts of cheap devices: switching tenses, short staccato sentences, clumsy similes and stereotyped characters. The book should have been less than half its length, if a modicum of good editing had been employed. But even that wouldn't have saved it from being spurious, sensationalist rubbish.

Contrary to what it looks like, I read the English translation (there is one but it doesn't come up on Goodreads). Shifting perspectives were interesting but the hearing voices stuff was meh and I'm always disappointed when there isn't better character development of the main villain. In this case, I think the author chose the lazy way out but then again...how do you explain a psychopath? To be fair I haven't read any of the earlier books in the series so perhaps some of the things I felt needed...

I just could not enjoy this story. The female detective with all her demons under control. To many cliches. The derivation of a group of upper echelon of Swedish society being sadistic sexual perverts and of course they hunt. Weird a modern woman bent on having a baby and hating the prosecutor initials she is prettier than her. It was just so insulting as was her colleague who was ok as he only beat up bad guys. A murderer who is insane well that was clear given the murders. The ending was just

I am a huge fan of the writer Sarah Ward and her reviews on her blog Crime Pieces. Recently in a bookshop I stumbled across this novel and saw a quote from Sarah Ward on the cover. So I instantly bought the novel. Oh my, was I in for one hell of a read!The novel opens in early December 2010 and we are drawn straight into the emotional and physical pain of the victim. Maria Murvall, a recent victim now resides at the Vadstena hospital, she is mute due to the significant torture inflicted upon her...

I started this book thinking the author is finally unravelling the Maria Murvall case and Malin is going to get closure. But I was disappointed with the way the story was told. I am not continuing with this series any longer. The initial two books were okay. After that the plot is lost either by the author or in the translation. As I had bought the five books bundle I am completing and closing it. The narrative is difficult to keep up with.

The Fifth Season was an apt ending to a murder committed in the first book of the series. Although the style of writing takes some getting used to,(often veering between voices, dead and alive), it is a worthwhile addition to the Scandinavian mystery genre.