The Content Reader

I read this book for Nordic FINDS hosted by AnnaBookBel . Kazinski is a pseudonym of Anders Rønnow Klarlund and Jacob Weinreich, two Danish authors. It is the first in a series involving detective Niels Bentzon.  I have read  Sömnen och döden (The Sleep and the Death (my translation), I don't think it has been translated to English), which is the second one in the series. Both books are excellent, and something above the ordinary detective/thriller novel.  "In Jewish scripture, there is a legend: There are thirty-six righteous people on earth. The thirty-six protect us. Without them, humanity would perish. But the thirty-six do not know they are the chosen ones. In Beijing, a monk collapses in his chamber, dead. A fiery mark—a tattoo? a burn?—spreads across his back and down his spine. In Mumbai, a beloved economist, a man who served the poor, dies suddenly. His corpse reveals the same symbol. Similar deaths are reported around the world—the victims all humanitarians, all...