Rightly Judged (2023)

Rightly Judged (2023)

In Tangavik two hundred years ago, dangerous ideas run rampant; ideas about justice and equality. Secretly, people are plotting to free the rich from the wealth that weighs them down, but when it comes down to it, the authorities are not amused. Crimes threaten society’s values, and it is vitally important to suppress dissent and rebellion; find the guilty, judge harshly and punish cruelly. Many of the colourful threads from Einar’s previous novel, Poetic Criminology, are spun forward in various directions:

a desire for freedom is ignited and suffocated, imperfect characters run out of control, family ties prosper, the sequence of events collapses and jumps over years and centuries, fiction and history contend with truth and lies, right and wrong - and all of this comes together in a magically twisted web in the author’s celebrated style.