Title: Scapegoat
Author: Poul Ørum
Rating:
4 stars out of 5Publisher: Pantheon
Copyright: 1975
Pages: 256
Keywords: mystery
Reading period: 12–15 May, 2009
The district nurse is murdered in a Danish seaside resort.
The police arrest the local peeping tom, a dimwitted young man.
Detective-Inspector Jonas Morck has his doubts.
Morck and his partner, Einarsen, are locked in a permanent good cop–bad cop routine.
Eventually, Morck in his quiet, methodical, yet insightful way,
will find the real killer.