Book Notices | The Dark Heart by Joakim Palmkvist

Joakim Palmkvist, The Dark Heart: A True Story of Greed, Murder, and an Unlikely Investigator

Amazon   The Dark Heart is a true crime story about the murder of a wealthy Swedish Farmer, Göran Lundblad, in 2012. The book follows the official investigation by the police into Lundblad's disappearance, but it focuses more on an unofficial investigation conducted by a private citizen. Therese Tang is the COO of the local branch of Missing People Sweden, an organization that rallies volunteers to search for the missing. Called in by one of the missing man's daughters, Tang was instrumental in apprehending the guilty parties. It's pretty clear from the get-go who the suspects in Lundblad's disappearance are. Nevertheless, I won't give anything away. I enjoyed this book particularly because of the prose, a straightforward, reportorial style that gets the story across without distracting flourishes.