Studio Sex
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Descripción editorial
La segunda entrega de la serie de misterio de Marklund.
«Liza Marklund es una fuera de serie».
Hennin Mankell
Ocho años antes de los dramáticos sucesos de Dinamita...
La reportera novata Annika Bengtzon acaba de empezar unas prácticas de verano en un importante periódico de Estocolmo, el Kvällspressen. Allí se encarga de la aburrida tarea de atender la línea telefónica de los chivatazos. Pero antes de que haya tenido la menor oportunidad de adentrarse en el frenético mundo del periodismo, aparece el cadáver desnudo de una chica joven en un cementerio.
Una stripper que trabajaba en el club Studio Sex ha sido violada y estrangulada, y el principal sospechoso es un secretario del Gobierno. Annika rápidamente se da cuenta de que este caso puede ser la oportunidad para escribir su primer gran artículo y catapultarse a la fama. Aunque a medida que descubre el oscuro infierno de los clubes de alterne, se va internando peligrosamente en un mundo de sexo y violencia.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Demonstrating that literary tastes abroad do not necessarily coincide with those of American readers, this second volume of a projected trilogy of thrillers a bestseller in Europe plods dutifully from start to finish. This installment is a prequel to the first volume, The Bomber(released in the U.S. last spring), which followed the adventures of Swedish journalist Annika Bengtzon. Eight years before her Bomber adventures, Annika is a novice reporter for the fictional Stockholm tabloid, Kv llspressen. Assigned to screening crank phone calls on the tip line in hopes of getting an occasional valid news break, Annika receives an anonymous tip about the nude corpse of a young girl in a public park. Sent with a photographer and an experienced reporter to follow up, she is rewarded with the admiration of her editors for her reporting but falls victim to the envy of the regular staff for her success. As the plot develops, the focus of the investigation shifts from the victim's lover, the owner of the upscale sex club where she worked, to an important government minister who keeps a secret apartment near the park. Delving into the bureaucrat's alibi, Annika discovers that he is somehow involved in the coverup of the reappearance of a missing archive that could shake the foundation of the ruling Social Democrats. Annika dons a G-string and goes undercover; a murky diary details sexual obsession; but repetition and minutiae weaken a plot fairly begging for resolution. The novel's pacing leaves much to be desired for American readers used to snappier action, and Marklund fails to supply substance in the form of serious character development or literary styling.
