The truth wasn't a sudden explosion; it was a slow thaw. She discovered that the "sin" wasn't just the murder, but the silence that followed. Every character she met was a piece of a "sordid and dangerous world" where pleasure and pain were indistinguishable. Like Wendy Hanniford’s father in Block’s tale, everyone wanted to know who their loved ones really were before they died.
By the time the snow began to fall, Rebecka realized that justice in Kiruna, much like justice in Greenwich Village, was rarely "clean." It was a "rough kind of justice" that left you shivering in the cold, knowing that while the case was closed, the ground beneath you was still shifting. Which version are you reading?
: The first book in the Matt Scudder series (originally titled The Sins of the Fathers ). It follows an alcoholic ex-cop investigating a young woman's murder in NYC. It is available through Riverside Agency . Amazon.com: Los pecados de nuestros padres