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Title: Utover Enhver Rimelig TvilAuthor: Malin Persson Giolito, Monica Carlsen (translator)
Published: 2012
Language: Norwegian (translated from Swedish)
Pages: 384
Rating: 3/5
A fifteen year old girl has been murdered and a doctor has spent thirteen years in prison for the crime, but when attorney Sophia Weber takes a look at the case, she discovers discrepancies in the investigation, enough of them to want to help him.
Review:
There is a lot I really like about this book and then some things that I don't.
My favorite thing about this is the discussion throughout this book about justice and possible miscarriage of justice, as well as the role of the media and public opinion in criminal cases. The story talks about how this man who has been convicted is an all-round horrible guy, but how one can't judge him for being an asshole. It highlights issues in the justice system, as well as within humans. It asks questions like: how much evidence do you need to convict a man? Can we risk lowering the standard of the evidence needed if it means the possibility of convicting an innocent person?
I also really like the writing style of this author. There's something about it that I find incredibly compelling and I feel like I really get into the heads of the characters.
That being said, this is an almost 400-page book and not a lot happens in it, and in the end, very little of what we've read even come to fruition. There is very little action and not a whole lot of excitement, except towards the very end and even that part isn't particularly engrossing.
It's more a commentary of society than anything else and it's a book that asks more questions that it answers, which I thought was interesting enough, but overall, this didn't exactly knock my socks of in the way I had anticipated.
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