Last Will: A Novel
Written by Liza Marklund
Narrated by India Fisher
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
For the first time in her career, investigative reporter Bengtzon is covering the glamorous Nobel Prize Dinner, traditionally held in Stockholm's City Hall. Some of the most notable scholars in the world are in attendance when gunshots suddenly break out. Bodies fall to the floor and Annika catches a glimpse of the suspect as he flees the scene. As the key witness, she is soon caught in the middle of an intricate drama with links to international terrorism, global pharmaceutical corporations, and Alfred Nobel himself. In pursuit of a trained assassin called The Kitten, she learns that in the scientific community, secrets are closely guarded. And some will kill, just to protect them.
Liza Marklund
Liza Marklund is an author, journalist, and goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Her crime novels, featuring the relentless reporter Annika Bengtzon, instantly became international hits and have sold millions of copies in thirty languages worldwide. Visit her website at LizaMarklund.com.
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Reviews for Last Will
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I have only read one novel by Lisa Marklund earlier: 4.5, THE BOMBER and my memory is pretty vague.So, as needs must, this novel worked pretty well for me as a stand-alone, although it was apparent there was quite a back story involving Annika's relationship with the police Inspector Q. This novel is mid way in the series.Annika was only meters away from the assassin who fired the shots at the Nobel Prizewinner's dinner and killed a scientist. Because she can therefore give them valuable information about the person who fired the shots, the police put a ban on her releasing information. She assists them in creating an identikit picture but is put on idefinite leave from her newspaper as it becomes apparent that none of her work can be published. Her leave, on full pay, coincides with an office reorganisation, and her family's move to a new house in the country leads to conflict with a very crusty neighbour.The biggest danger comes though when the assassin realises that Annika can identify her. Although Annika can't get anything published she continues to investigate the case, trying to find out why the original victim was murdered.The main story runs parallel to information about Alfred Nobel himself, and disagreements among scientists in particular about whether the prizes actually fulfil the intentions of Nobel's final will.Very readable.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the second Annika Bengtzon book I've read. I really enjoyed The Bomber but have to admit that I was disappointed in Last Will. Initially, I was intrigued with the entire Nobel plot line. I found it well developed and suspenseful. However, there came a point where the trials and tribulations of Annika's life became an unwanted distraction from the main plot line. While some of the angst she was experiencing as she dealt with her husband, children, new home, etc would have been OK and part of a rounding out of Annika's character, it became so over-the-top that I seriously considered stop reading the novel about two thirds the way through because of its overshadowing of the Nobel murders. I found the end of the novel overly rushed and contrived. Not to mention a killer with the moniker of "Kitten" ... really!?!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last Will is the latest in the newspaper reporter Annika Bengtzon series, following The Bomber, and Red Wolf. It is a good book with a lot of interesting pieces but I think it suffers from trying to do too much in one book. I was intrigued by the storyline, murder at the Nobel Awards, but there was so much more - a portrait of an assassin, a breakup of a marriage, the restructure of a newspaper in a desperate attempt to save it, the demands placed on a career woman, the demands of an ungrateful and jealous friend, the weird behavior of a new neighbor, the ethics of the relationships between corporations and Members of the Nobel Committee, a bad guy driven by money and prestige and he's a psychopath too, the background of an execution victim of Middle Ages Rome (someone detailed much better in an earlier David Hewson novel). All this in addition to the expected history of the Nobels, the award process and a brief bio of Alfred Nobel. Some of these piece parts were done very well, but some could have been better. As one example, I thought the assassin could have been better written, a lot more interesting, but instead the character came out as rather flat and motivation for the last attempted murder made no sense to me at all. So, too many ingredients. I think a sharper focus may have produced a better and more interesting book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a series that is growing on me more and more as is the character of Annika. Usually I like when there is a little less of a characters' personal life in these Nordic novels but for some reason I like reading about this character trying to balance her home, children and a failing marriage with her job as a news reporter. In this novel I enjoyed the story and the history (which is historical fact) about Alfred Nobel and his life and why he decided to leave money for the Nobel prizes. I did find the hiring of and the character of the Kitten to be a bit ridiculous but overall I enjoyed this mystery.