Bad Blood

DI Paul Hjelm and the rest of the international police team he is a member of are frustrated with a lack of action.  They are shaken out of their lethargy when their leader tells them that a murder of a Swedish citizen has occurred in the USA.  The culprit in question is a serial killer and he is now bound for Sweden.  Unfortunately the FBI don't know his identity, only that he is one of 163 passengers on the incoming flight.

Despite the team's attempt to identify the killer at passport control, he makes it past them.  Now they have to wait for the killer to act.  As they wait, they create a variety of hypotheses as to why the killer has come to Sweden.

When Hjelm and his partner, Chavez, access the victim's home computer, they find a file with quite a number of hate emails.  They are very revealing, but don't provide any information about the killer.   They are surprised when they figure out and confront the person behind the emails.

Some time later they go in search of an escaped criminal only to find him killed in the signature way.  It isn't long after this that the body of a young man is found in water, killed in the same manner.  The killer has definitely arrived.  Hjelm and another team member, Kerstin Holm, are sent to the USA to liaise with the FBI.  It is some time after going through the files that Hjelm comes to the realisation that their murderer is actually the son of the original killer.  It sets them off on a new track.

Meantime things are heating up in Sweden.  Members of the team come across another victim, the thing is, he is still alive; barely.  Hjelm and Holm are called back to Sweden to continue the hunt.

Author Arne Dahl continues to build up the tension in this thriller.  Things turn out to be not as they seem, and a surprising conclusion occurs.  A read that gets off to a slow start, but has an exciting finish.  A very good read, hard to put down.