We already know Michael Hjorth and his ability to make film novels, fictionalized scripts where we move through scenes imported from movies. It is something like the reverse process of all creation that usually goes from matte paper to celluloid. The fact is that penetrating these fictionalized scripts is a true act of courage for such an incursion into the dark world of the abject, of the human as the monster capable of everything when reason takes unpredictable paths.
In Justified Punishments we find a novel about the justification of evil, about the murderer's excuse to intervene, with his almost divine capacity, to appease any type of subversion to moral values inserted in minds full of guilt, pain and contrition. It only remains to know who is in charge of assuming that justice granted by God to remove vices and degeneration from the midst of death sentences.
The Bergman series finds in this fifth installment more and better than the previous fourth: Unspeakable silences. If in the previous case the twists supposed real heart startles for the reader, in this case fear conditions everything ... But the will to know towards the resolution of the case surpasses everything and finally leads you to a literary ecstasy.
Summary: A television star is found shot to the head in an abandoned school. His body is facing the wall and, tied to a classroom chair, some exam sheets. Judging by the number of incorrect answers, the victim failed the most important test of his life.
This horrible murder is the first in a series of deaths that will have famous people as victims. The Torkel Hölgrund Criminal Squad will handle the case and only thanks to the expertise of Sebastian Bergman will they be able, following the clues found in internet chats and in anonymous letters published in newspapers, to solve the mystery.
You can now buy the novel Justified punishments, Michael Hjorth's new book, here: