Søvnen og døden - A.J. Kazinski

Title: Søvnen og døden (Niels Bentzon #2) (Sleep and Death)
Author: A.J. Kazinski
Genre: Suspense
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 490 pages
Date read: September, 2016

The hostage negotiator at Copenhagen Police, Niels Bentzon, should have been able to talk her out of it. Talk her out of jumping down on the train tracks. But he couldn't. But who was she? What caused her to jump? Somebody or something was after her - something that made her prefer death to life.

Soon Niels realizes that the woman wasn't a mentally ill woman, but a solo dancer at the Royal Ballet who's been missing for two days. And the autopsy reveals something else - the woman has been drowned and revived several times just before her jump.


This was a surprisingly slow read. I liked it well enough, and thought the premise fascinating (man trying to kill and revive people in order to get answers from a dead relative), but it was just too easy to put down and not pick up again.

Niels' way of working annoyed me - it always bothers me when policemen in books and movies get an idea and decide to run with it themselves, instead of following policy and wait for backup. You know it's going to get them into trouble sooner or later - trouble which could so easily have been avoided.