Kennedy's Brain
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Archaeologist Louise Cantor returns home to Sweden and makes a devastating discovery: her only child, twenty-eight-year-old Henrik, dead in his bed. The police rule his death a suicide but she knows he was murdered; her quest to find out what really happened to Henrik takes her across the globe to Barcelona, where her son kept a secret apartment; Sydney, Australia, to find Aron, her estranged ex-husband and Henrik’s father; and to Maputo, Mozambique, where she learns the awful truth behind an AIDS hospice. Her investigation reveals how much her son concealed from her as she uncovers the links between his death, the African AIDS epidemic, and Western pharmaceutical interests, while those who dare help her are killed off.
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This was a very odd book. The idea behind the conspiracy is intriguing, but there were too many holes in the story, and the main character was just terribly unlikable.
This was a totally different book from the usual Mankell mysteries, but I enjoyed it. However, I was annoyed by how blase the narrator Louise became about the killings she witnessed and didn't even report them. She seemed only to be able to focus on her son's death and not really open her eyes. They leave you hanging in the end and I wonder if there will be a follow-up.
