Review: Johan tralaus « The eye of the snake » «
With enthusiasm, I threw myself over Johan Tralau’s debut « Höken sings about death », starvation in Swedish Dark Academia. But I was deceiving.
In his first book in the series « Uppsala Arcana », Stralau chose a promising mystery in favor of a more regular murder story where he took the life of a considerable part of the Literature Science Department at Uppsala University. After all, the substance was promising, with Olof Rudbeck the older, the silver bible and old academic cables to pour out.
But Tralau would rather satirize the university’s contemporary stupidity than make its environment diabolical and enigmatic.
Piles? In Uppsala? Yes, what can it refer to.
You should not Criticize a book for not being the one you wanted to read. But one cannot help but be disappointed that a high -potent substance is embezzled. Strange were also some details, such as a writing that pointed out highest piles As a clue, both the police and the Uppsal academics puzzled. Piles? In Uppsala? Yes, What Can it refer to.
The murder cases in « Höken sing about death » got its solution, but a major mystery remained. Do the aged and secret association called the Ulva Federation exist and which according to the myth is the real power holder in Uppsala?
In the « snake’s eye », Stralau spins on this obscurity. It’s been a few months. Another literary scientist is murdered and forensic inspector Erika Lönnroth (a wink to the colleague of Borges, Commissioner Erik Lönnrot) eventually initiates his own survey together with the literary scientist Sebastian Grimner and his aged father.
Tension he can, Johan Strau, and he takes the help of the uncertainty that always falls when anyone in sight can be part of the conspiracy. That librarian at Carolina Rediviva? The forensic doctor? The professor or the prefect?
However, this is soaked by annoying satires and clichés. Like the retired Ulf Georg Grimner must be portrayed as uncomfortable in the present: « Ulf Georg had received the messages in the new program on the portable phone. The application, it was called, or the app ». Such hay-handed wit at the expense of the contractors could have saved us. I hope he calms down to the next part of the series.
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