Notes from the Shelf

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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman is a 336-page mystery set in a small town in Sweden. After a failed bank robbery attempt, the would-be bank robber holds an apartment full of potential buyers hostage. Eventually the hostages are let go, but the bank robber has disappeared. The father-son cop duo must solve how the bank robber escaped.

This book was amazing from start to finish. It grabbed my attention right away and didn’t let go, and it was such a quick read. The way it was written was very hectic in the best way possible, backtracking occasionally and once I had thought I figured it out, it would throw me for a loop. There were six different times that I thought it was over, but the story kept going, tying up loose ends that I had forgotten about, and each time was an even better ending. There were many story lines, but it wasn’t hard to keep them straight. Fredrik Backman explained things beautifully, and it just flowed.

The book was adapted into a Netflix series in 2021, so I will have to check that out and see how it compares to the book.

I give Anxious People 5 stars.

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