Cuando Sándor, un joven gitano de Hungría, es expulsado de la universidad por haber husmeado en páginas ilegales de tráfico de armas en Internet, sabe que su hermano Tamás se esconde detrás de todo esto, y emprende un viaje a Copenhague en su búsqueda. Allí, la enfermera de la Cruz Roja, Nina Borg, no pasa por su mejor momento personal, pues tiene una relación muy tensa con su hija adolescente y su marido. Pero, cuando una epidemia radiactiva en un insallubre campamento de refugiados gitanos amenaza con llegar a ser una catástrofe aún mayor, inicia una arriesgada investigación que tendrá consecuencias inesperadas en su vida.

Invisible Murder is a well-reasoned-out story, and while not exactly farfetched it has so many moving parts that it barely escapes being a hot mess. We've got a half dozen or dozen supporting characters, but no real main characters. It is just a lot of parts that ultimately assembles into a whole, but there are still quite a few missing pieces at the end. It works well enough, I guess.

Looking at LT, I see that this is a Nina Borg series. Really? What did she have to do with anything other than being a walking, breathing disaster, a danger to herself and everyone around her. She’s the very ideal of... if it wasn’t for bad luck she wouldn't have any luck at all.

In any case, this is a very dark story. Present throughout is human suffering and the evil that haunts the world; the proverbial dark underbelly. Nothing cheerful there I'm afraid, but the book is engaging enough and a fairly quick read.

Not much stuck with me, but I got a kick out of the exchange from the young Hungarian brothers:

Sándor: "Don't touch my stuff," he said. "And if you wreck my computer, I'll rip your nuts off."

Tamás: "That would take bigger hands than yours, phrala."

And from beaten down Chief Inspector Søren Kirkegård (gotta feel sorry for the guy):

"In my next life, Søren thought. In my next life, I want to do something else."

"In my next life, he thought, I want to do something else. Something that actually permits the existence of love." ( )

I'm beginning to really like the Nina Borg series. The first one, Boy in a Suitcase, was good, but a little hard to follow, but probably just because of the unfamiliar names. This one was easier, because there were some of the same characters. Also, I paid more attention at the beginning I think. It was an audiobook, and I had to go back once or twice when I wasn't paying enough attention, but I got a better idea of what was going on.

The books in this series all seem to be similar so far in the way the stories are constructed. There are a few seemingly unrelated threads at the beginning that come together at some point. In fact, it seems like they may even come together in future books. I've actually already started reading the next one, and it continues with characters from this one, with more about parts of the story that never were resolved in this book.

The ending of this book was completely unexpected, although I did begin to suspect something unusual might be happening. The ending was almost funny, in a strange way, if you can consider radiation poisoning and painful deaths funny - which I'm sure we all do as long as it's not someone we know (just kidding, honest!).

A pretty dark story, but different than the run of the mill Jack Reacher, etc story - a lot different. ( )

Nina Borg has resolved to be a mother/wife, but is dragged into a nasty situation to help very sick Hungarian refugees, one of whom is harboring something very toxic. Meanwhile, the smuggler's brother is essentially disenfranchised as a Hungarian student and goes off to save his brother only to become inadvertently embroiled in tearing apart Nina's family. Nina's inner strength helps her overcome her own sickness, and stop a grave threat to Copenhagen by a most unexpected person. I would have liked this book better with one fewer plotline. ( )

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