A surprisingly strong outing from Läckberg, who sometimes makes her amiable enough crime novels feel like she's following a template. The dual narrative works this time around because none of the instalments are too long or meandering, and their multi-generational approach means that we never have to hang around the unpleasant characters before we move on to the next one.

The modern day material is clearly overstuffed with characters, but they eventually become easy to differentiate and they work themselves to a satisfying head. While Läckberg maintains many of her trademarks, from characters leaving their phones behind to deliberately withholding crucial information from each other, none of them get in the way enough to be truly infuriating this time around.

A fairly interesting story told in a way that properly utilises most of the characters instead of rendering a lot of them as idiotic roadblocks, Buried Angels is one of the worthier entries in the Fjällbacka canon.