In a nondescript apartment block in Stockholm, most of the residents are elderly. Usually a death is a sad but straightforward event. But sometimes a resident will die and there are no friends or family to contact. This is when Marianne Folkesson arrives, employed by the state to close up a life with dignity and respect. Gerda Persson has lain dead in her apartment for three days before Marianne is called. When she arrives, she finds the apartment tidy and ordered. Gerda's life seems to have been quite ordinary. Until Marianne opens the freezer and finds it full of books, neatly stacked and wrapped in clingfilm, a thick layer of ice covering them. They are all by Axel Ragnerfeldt, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with handwritten dedications to Gerda from the author. What story do these books have to tell, about Gerda, and more importantly about Ragnerfeldt, a man whose fame is without precedent in the nation's cultural life, but seldom gives interviews?

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It was pretty good. It's a bit slow to start but once it gets going it gets quite interesting.

It's in the bookshelves of the ground floor lobby of the Oliver & Boyd building, Tweeddale Court, EH1 1TE (opposite the Scottish Storytelling Centre on the Royal Mile). The entrance lies between the Real Scot Shop and Baguette Express.

Caught @ Canongate Books OBCZ

Entertaining enough in it's genre. Does require a few stretches of the imagination.

This book is in OBCZ-Schlemmer now, waiting for another reader...

Found it @ Schlemmer. Was intrigued by the fact that the person kept books in the freezer. :)