Annika Bengtzon is a crime reporter at a bustling tabloid
in
Stockholm, Sweden. She struggles daily with balancing her
career, motherhood, and marriage. She is married to
Thomas,
who is working on anti-terrorism/wiretapping legislation.
Annika and Thomas are constantly at odds -- they have very
different views on marriage, on raising children, on life
in
general. The strain in their marriage is evident from
the very beginning of the book. Thomas's work on anti-
terrorism legislations only intensifies their already
crumbling marriage.
The book begins with Annika covering the Nobel banquet and
witnessing a murder. As a key witness to the crime, she is
put on lock-down by the police and not allowed to report
anything she witnessed. This puts her in an extremely
difficult position with work that eventually results in her
being put on suspension. While Annika is on suspension,
she
begins researching the Nobel murder on her own and uncovers
a conspiracy that goes way beyond what anyone had
suspected.
LAST WILL is well-written crime thriller. It is the sixth
book in the Annika Bengtzon series by Liza Marklund
which
has been translated to English. I read this as a stand-
alone book, without reading any of the prior books in the
series and found it a little difficult to get into the
story
at first. There were definite references to things that
had
happened in previous books that I didn't understand. It is
not necessary to ready the previous books, but I do think
it
would be helpful. As a fan of crime thrillers, I would
definitely recommend LAST WILL and all of the books in the
Annika Bengtzon series. I plan on going back and starting
with the first in the series -- Studio Sex.
HOW FAR WILL A MADMAN GO TO ATTAIN THE ULTIMATE PRIZE?
In the midst of a brutal Scandinavian winter, a member of
the Nobel Prize committee is gunned down in the city of
Stockholm. Reporter Annika Bengtzon, who made eye contact
with the killer just seconds before the shots were fired, is
the key witness. Because of the sensitivity of the crime,
police issue a gag order on her immediately—and she is
forced to figure out on her own why an American assassin
known only as “the Kitten” ordered the hit.
With her marriage falling to pieces and her job on the line,
Annika quickly finds herself in the middle of a violent
story of terror and death, the roots of which date back
centuries. The research all leads her to the same man: a
rich and famous industrialist responsible for one of the
world’s most coveted gifts, who died a tragic and mysterious
death. If Annika wants to learn the truth, she risks
uncovering secrets that some will do anything to protect.
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