Book Review: The Woman Who Wouldn't Die Quietly by Katarina Bivald

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One matriarch. One powerful family. And one very suspicious fall.

Synopsis:

If you've spent your entire life running your family as ruthlessly as you've run the family business, it is perhaps not the best idea to gather them all on a cold and dark remote island to celebrate your eightieth birthday. At the very least, it makes for a tense dinner party. And at worst...

When Margrethe Cullenberg-Franzén falls to her death during the celebration of her eightieth birthday, Ian Ahmed is convinced it's murder. Trapped in a wintery landscape of muted colors and creeping shadows, he and novelist Berit Gardner struggle to unravel the toxic family secrets behind Margrethe's imposing legacy. As winter deepens and the ice seals the islands in silence, the question echoes louder: who stood to gain the most from the matriarch's fall? And how long before the killer strikes again?

Review:

The Great Diddling series returns! Ian has come to Berit's Swedish holiday cabin to recover from a leg injury and trauma from the last case. She meanwhile is trying to decide what to do with the house- keep it or sell it, stay or go. As Ian and her both work on their own individual trauma, they get invited to a birthday party across the water. When the matriarch seems to have been killed by mistake, it will take both of them to figure out who among her family not only had motive (they all did), but who actually did the dead. As they realize how much they are leaning on each other, they also come to a new relationship. An interesting closed room mystery, this one will keep you guessing!

About the Author:

Katarina Bivald is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend. She lives outside of Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up working part-time in a bookshop.