Quick Review: Vanished by Liza Marklund
By Aubrey Paton for The Times:
Scandinavian crime writer Liza Marklund has created a strong but touchingly vulnerable heroine in the indefatigable tabloid reporter Annika Bengtzon, who works as a copy editor on the night shift.
When her senior male colleagues relegate her to fielding random phone calls, Annika is plunged into an intriguing story about Paradise, an organisation that can eradicate people’s pasts, making them impossible to trace.
But is Paradise genuine or a money-making scam, fleecing the social services?
A refugee Annika sends to them is subsequently murdered by the Yugoslavian mafia. With the help of a civil servant and a disenchanted former Paradise client, Mia Erikkson, she exposes the group and its founder.
Vanished is the second English translation of Paradiset first published in 2004 as Paradise.
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