The aspen leaves are trembling.And so will you .....Wow! What a wild emotional rollercoaster ride this book turned out to be! Whilst some of the opening scenes were somewhat dark and confronting, I was settling in to read what I thought would be a fairly typical Scandinavian murder / mystery. And for a while, the story seemed to flow along a well-trodden path, as detectives Berger and Deer follow a lead to a derelict farmhouse where they hope to find a missing 15-year-old girl who they fear has

At each abandoned crime scene, there is a hidden clue, a tiny metal dog, almost invisible to the human eye. Someone is sending Detective Sam Berger a message. Someone who knows that only Sam will understand the cryptic trail. When another teenage girl disappears without trace, Sam has to convince his superiors that they are dealing with a serial killer. As the police continue the hunt for the latest victim, Sam is forced to unearth long-buried personal demons. Sam has to understand darkly person...

Watching You – A Stunning New Scandi SeriesWithout doubt Arne Dahl is the King of Scandi Noir and does not look like giving up that mantle with a new thriller series. Like all his thrillers his writing has a pace that is breath taking from the first sentence to the last, he has you in a vice like grip. He has such a compelling way of creating characters that just attract attention that intrigue and intelligence. Dahl’s books are both complex and compelling at the same time, the plotlines are wel...

I enjoyed this book to a point but I did find it over complicated and a bit drawn out because of this it didn't hold my interest as I would have liked. Thank you to the publisher for the ARC

Twitter | Goodreads | Blog | Instagram | I’d personally put this as a suspense, investigator kinda series.First book in a new series (I’m late reading this and others are already out) it opens well.Loved the main character and how he was developed with his past demons being brought to the fore, giving him a good realistic 3D personage.Twisty.Rounded.Fast paced.What more do we want.

I would like to thank Netgalley and Random House UK, Vintage Publishing for an advance copy of Watching You, a Swedish police procedural.Detective Sam Berger is hunting for missing 15 year old schoolgirl, Ellen Savinger. In the 3 weeks since she has disappeared there have been precious few clues until a phone call identifies a house with Ellen in it. What they find is a house of horrors but no Ellen. Sam is convinced he is looking for a serial killer but his boss instructs him not to mention thi...

Swedish review Ellen Savinger är femton år och har varit borta i tre veckor. Polisen Sam Berger tror att en seriemördare har tagit henne, men då ingen kropp har hittats är det ingen som tar hans teori på allvar. Men så får de till slut en öppning i fallet och i samma veva så hittar den den mystiska Nathalie Fredén. Men kanske har Sam tagit sig vatten över huvudet...?Vad jag undrar är följande; varför har jag aldrig läst Arne Dahl förut? Han är en av min mammas favoritförfattare men jag har in

I have enjoyed quite a few Scandinavian novels, but this is the first by Arne Dahl. It appears that i have been missing out all this time on a great author! So many twists and turns, which i love. Some parts did drag a little, but this did not spoil the story for me. I think it could be partly my fault, as i sometimes get a little impatient for wanting to know what is going to happen next. This could quite easily make a good drama on TV. Highly recommended.Am now looking forward to reading more

When I started this book it really confused me. I expect Scandinavian fiction to be a slow burner with deep descriptions and weighty character development. However from page 1 we are literally thrown into the unrelenting action as Detective Sam Berger together with his trusty assistant Deer (Desire) smash rotten wooden planks and charges through the door of a ruined building, battering ram in hand, in search of another teenaged girl who has disappeared without trace. At first I found the unrele

I imagine this is the first of the series, mainly because it seems as though Detective Sam Berger has left the police to become a private investigator, with his partner who helped to work this serial killer case of disappearing 15 year old girls and because things are left hanging in a major way suggesting only part of the case is resolved. This is a twisted and dark Scandi-Noir featuring a melancholic Sam Berger who leads a team into a farmhouse thought to be where a missing girl, Ellen, is bei...

I loved this one – it was just the kind of twisty story I love with a couple of smartly drawn main protagonists, plenty of mystery, completely gripping and really right up my street.It is a “serial killer thriller” that also sets up what I hope will be a long running series as I am at this point very attached to Sam as a character – and just as attached to his erstwhile partner in crime who’s name I won’t give you right now so as not to spoil the plot – but individually they allow for a lot of f...

A bit disappointed since I normally really like Arne Dahl. But the story just is not in any way believable to me. I tried to suspend disbelief and enjoy it anyway, which went so-so.

I hadn't head of Arne Dahl before this book had been offered to me. Turned to be a really nice surprise.A young girl disappears and there is no trace of her anywhere. Other 15 year old girls have disappeared also and it's a case that Detective Sam Berger and his team are cased to solve. One night whilst entering a farmhouse it becomes clear that the place is booby trapped and a man goes down. It's a shocking moment that leaves the police officers nervous as the farmhouse is searched for any clue...

I loved Dahl's Intercrime series, but this book is far more conventional, even a bit tired. There are some great twists that are so out there that they're practically U-turns in the first half but then things settle into one of those tales where a traumatic event in childhood is played out 30 years later, a premise which always makes me sigh in disbelief.What I loved about the Intercrime series was the slick plotting and, especially, the rounded characterisations of the team with their banter an...

3.7 stars

I’m a huge lover of Scandinavian crime so I was thrilled to be approved to read Watching You. I had no expectation as I’ve not read anything by him before, so I was hoping for greatness!Watching You started out really well, as you would expect with a solid and gruesome premise. There were plenty of twists and turns along the way, some that were more shocking than others. There is a great sense of momentum at the beginning of the book and I was intrigued right from the beginning. I really liked S...

This book had one of the most unique and unexpected twists to it, that made me stop reading and really think to myself how did I not see that coming. That is testament to the author who's writing is not only addictive but also totally brilliant, totally give my emotions and mind a good shake up,compulsive read,highly recommend it. Thanks everyone at NG and the author and publisher,for allowing be to read this awesome book.

This was boring beyond belief! This book has received some fuss here in Northern Europe, but I fail to see why. There isn't anything about this that I liked. If I hadn't had this on audio, it would have been a wall banger after a few chapters. As it was an audio, I just let it roll. I didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the characters and I found the plot tenuous to say the least.Sam Berger is after a serial murderer or kidnapper. The problem is that there isn't really much proof of substance that so...

Thank you NetGalley for this advance copy.I’m a long time fan of Scandinavian thrillers and of course Arne Dahl is one of my favorites. His books are not suitable for people who like an easy read. No, from page one on, you are thrown into the story and only slowly you will get a grasp of what is really going on. This story has almost as much layers as there are pages in the book, with the layers becoming more and more intriguing. What’s so clever with Dahl’s writing is that you have to fill out

It's a good thriller with interesting plot. Two policemen from Stockholm, who work in separate departments, are trying to solve the case of a kidnapped girl and soon they realize that it is not an isolated case and that it is connected with their past and their childhood. They start to work together and come to astonishing conclusions. I gave four stars because the novel ended in cliffhanger and I hope that this will be resolved in the following novel which I will read by the end of the year.