Messing Library

BOOK REVIEW  |  This is an interesting one... A kid (Hilmer Eriksson) follows around a police detective that's trying to solve a missing persons case. The detective (Harald Fors) is kind of the loner-sort... no partner, no family, and no ideas about what happened to the missing kid. Together, the two move from place to place while Fors interviews witnesses and uncovers clues.

The catch? Hilmer is the missing person. He, like Fors, has no idea what has happened to him... all he knows is that he is now invisible to everyone around him. And he frequently feels pain on certain areas of his body and experiences the sensation that something has been stuffed into his mouth. So Hilmer's only choice is to follow Detective Fors around to try to understand what, if anything, has happened to him.

While this was an interesting (and short) book, I expected to see more of the subject of the title... Hilmer. Despite being the main subject of the plot, we very rarely see or hear from him... which may lend to the feeling that he's invisible and right alongside you as you read the book. It did creep me out a couple of times.

If the the names and some of the expressions sound a little strange, no worries... this book was translated from Swedish and takes place in Sweden. It may also have been made into a movie at some point recently... but probably not a very good one since I don't ever remember hearing about it!

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