![]() It’s a super character study, told through the eyes of Bess as she recounts what happens, although we must accept that her account is biased–she is probably unreliable as a narrator.īess has a troubled personal life. The crime is secondary to the journey of discovery that Bess is forced to go on as she comes to terms with the loss of Halland, and the sides of him that she didn’t know. The shooting occurs on the second page of this novel, and for just over the next hundred and fifty pages, we read about the effects of this awful event on Bess and those around her.Īlthough there is a murder to investigate and solve, this novel is not a conventional crime novel at all. His body lies in the square up from their house. Had I merely heard the door closing behind Halland?īess was right to be worried about the noise it was that of a bullet from a hunting rifle and it shot her partner Halland dead. ![]() Thought I remember thinking that something wasn’t quite right. That would have been psychic, insane almost. ![]() I pulled myself together again and clutched the blanket around my knees. I sat up and ran my fingers through my hair the way they do in films. When I opened my eyes again, I knew a sound had woken me, but I had no idea what sound. After going to the loo, I went back into the living room and collapsed on the sofa under a blanket. ![]() I didn’t want to wake Halland he had to be up soon anyway. The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul Translated by Martin Aitken ![]()
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