I actually didn't set out to do this, but somehow I seem to have started my own series read - so I think I might keep this up and work my way through the rest of Mari Jungstedt's books that I've got piling up around here. I started out reading THE INNER CIRCLE and found myself going back and picking up UNSEEN half way through because I got confused. I've read UNSEEN before, but about a third of the way through THE INNER CIRCLE there was so much that seemed to be ringing bells I thought I might have read it before, and not UNSEEN. Nope - it's just that there's a sobering similarity between the two books - hence my plan to read the others - let's see if the similarities continue.
From the Blurb - Unseen:
The island of Gotland is in the middle of a busy tourist season and getting ready for Midsummer, the 4th of July of Swedish holidays, when a young woman and her dog are found brutally murdered. The dog has been beheaded and is missing a paw; the woman is naked, covered in gruesome axe wounds, and her panties have been stuffed in her mouth.
From the Blurb - The Inner Circle:
The Inner Circle opens with an international group of young archeology students sweating on a dig on the island of Gotland, uncovering a Viking fortification dating back over a millennium. They are a fun-loving lot, partying together every night, but the good vibe turns to horror when one of them, twenty-one-year-old Martina Flochten, disappears. Her body is found a short while later, naked, bled out, and hanging from a tree. Her injuries indicate that she is the victim of a ritual killing.