The Black Series - continuation

Liza Marklund is another Swedish author, she’s even less know than Camilla Lackberg but she’s also very talented. I really enjoyed her whole crime series about journalist Annika Bengzton.

Annika works for a Swedish journal called Kvällspressen and she’s a crime reporter. She’s successful, her boss likes her but doesn’t like the way she works because she always gets in trouble (she was kidnapped couple of times, someone sent her a bomb in a letter, her house was set on fire, etc.). Annika’s coworkers hate her. She has husband and two little kids but her private life is a mess because her work is the most important thing in her life - of course she denies it. She's struggling to combine motherhood with her career ambitions.

What’s quite interesting about this series it’s its structure. In first part we meet Annika as a successful journalist, just after another promotion when she becomes a director of crime department in Kvällspressen. Her private life is quite ok and calm – if you don’t take under consideration the fact that in the end she was kidnapped and almost killed. But in the second part Annika has just started her carrier in journalism, she begins an internship and she isn’t even sure if journalism is a right path for her (but the readers know it is). So the chronology is really disturbed in this series but I’m not sure if it is some extra value or a flaw… Though it's interesting and worth reading.