Somliga linor brister by Varg Gyllander

I admit I have no idea what that title means; Gyllander is Swedish and the whole book is set in Sweden. The italian title translates "the corpse" maybe referring to the first body found no more than two pages into the book. This is the first I've ever read or heard about Gyllander. It's not bad, a bit too long maybe, there are pieces with no use whatsoever, not for the story nor for the atmosphere, but all in all it was a good enough book. Protagonist is Ulf Holtz, head of Stockholm's csi department. When a body is found, he's called. His job is to find dna traces, things on the crime scene that might prove connected to the murderer or otherwise important, find bullets, determine where the shot came from, all the technical analysis, but no more. He's not an 'action' kind of figure, he is not armed and also very afraid of dying. He passes on his findings to the investigative team and they proceed from there. Of course, him being the protagonist, he's the one who realizes who the killer is and tries to stop it, but fortunately the task force is there in time to save him :-)
It's enough well written, yes, but there are flaws.. there are pro and cons.
Pro:
 - I like quiet, tormented Holtz and his daughters,
 - I love Pia Levin, who works with Holtz, cares about him and always appears to be eating something :lol: ;
 - I like the piece where Knut Sahlén, the leader of the team of detectives, tells Holtz that he wants to change, as much as possible: he was one of those unbearable characters, yelling, talking ill of others, arrogant and unpleasant, until his wife Monika told him that he was the stereotype of the chief of police of so many crime novels, always thinking he knows more than anybody else, looking everyone as idiots, thinking he's the only capable one, and always always complaining, so Knut read a few of those books , for weeks he read them, and realized that in each one of them the leader was a complete idiot, always, so he decided to get better, to at least try to listen to what others have to say... :lol: that was my favourite scene in the book.
Cons:
 - he goes on and on and on explaining what is dna and other technical stuff, how very boring;
 - some things were totally useless, like the character of politicians Lena Thompson and Carl Tordin, they filled a few pages but had no purpose whatsoever;
 - the character of Nahid Ghadjar was useless, was not treated with much sense : she started out as a staging student (Pia was her tutor) , and she learned and took notes, then one evening she went alone to Holtz's house to ask him for a lecture, then she never showed up the day after for the joke-interrogation-she-was-preparing-for with Pia, then she appeared again at his house and they talked a lot and now she's his best friend... why? how? how did that happen? did she really go to his house to ask what dna was??Is the author setting the basis for a relationship, for his next book maybe? That story was so bizarre and unreal. What about Pia? He tells Nahid it had been a long time since he had someone, a friend he could really talk to, and I don't know if he's referring to the long years since his wife died or what, but it's not done well, it seems so farfetched, she went to his house to ask for lessons, which seemed ridiculous, then she went there again to talk, and that was, I don't know, unreal, unnatural, forced; had she talked to him in his office it would have been different, but they barely knew each other;
 - Pia's role is too little!
The story is simple: a highly trained military killer targets kids that spray their works of art on public walls, and at the end the murderer is declared mentally ill, pun into an institution where she's said to be improving very quickly, and probably she'll be able to get out in a year or less... after killing three kids...