Purchased from "Reader's Feast" in Melbourne just after a great Australian BC Convention in Melbourne. The proprietor of that superb bookshop was a guest speaker and introduced us to her range of books. Crime stories are her forte and books by Scandinavian authors her specialty, as they are mine. I bought several.

The married couple who wrote this book have a series featuring Martin Beck, of which this one is the third. Thoroughly enjoyed it and will look for more.

"His holiday has just begun: an August spent with his family on a small island off the coast of Sweden. But when a neighbor gets a phone call, Martin Beck finds himself packed off to Budapest, where a boorish journalist has vanished without a trace. Instead of passing leisurely sun-filled days with his children, Beck must troll about in the Eastern Europe underworld for a man nobody knows, with the aid of the coolly efficient local police, who do business while soaking at the public baths--and at the risk of vanishing along with his quarry."

It is available to borrow but I'm not quite ready to release completely. Please ask if you are interested.

In all the time since I made the first JE nobody has seemed to wish for it but it is certainly time that it started moving - after all, that is what BookCrossing is all about.
I've read other books by this pair and they are always interesting and somewhat puzzling so I hope the next reader enjoys it.

Book is going to the NZ/Aus UnCon on Stewart Island around October 13 2017. Hope it will find a crimeloving Bookcrosser there - I am not attending myself but a very devoted book-crosser, Edward Street. is taking this book with her. Thanks so very much ES.

If some of my books are there then I will feel that I am there in spirit if not in person. Hope that attendees wnjoy the flora and fauna of this delightful island at the very south part of the three islands that make up NZ.