Euro Crime: The Land of Dreams

By Laura Root

Euro Crime

October 15, 2013

sundstol_land cover THE LAND OF DREAMS is a distinctive book, showing us small-town American community life with a Scandinavian twist. The tensions between the big city FBI cops and Lance, who takes pride in his small-town conservative morals, as opposed to their perceived East Coast liberalism, are nicely depicted.

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