The blurb: Hitman Anders is fresh out of prison and trying to keep his head down when he meets a female Protestant vicar (who happens to be an atheist), and a receptionist at a 1-star hotel (who happens to be currently homeless).

Hitman Anders becomes a celebrity for breaking people’s arms and legs – really, why would the public venerate an ordinary gangster? I found myself more interested in the occasional glimpses it gave of Swedish life than the hi-jinks of our criminal trio.In povestea asta, personajele principale sunt un recepționer al unui hotel, o fostă preoteasa si un asasin ce il descoperă pe Dumnezeu. Si aceasta, la fel ca si celalalte, este scrisa intr-un mod absolut delicios, tratând niste subiecte "fierbinti" ale societății de astăzi, printr-un sarcasm fin, ce frizează realitatea.

Desperate to save the money machine they've built, The Priest and The Receptionist devise an audacious plan utilizing Killer-Anders' newfound and decidedly fervent faith.I like it, and it makes me feel a little more stoic whilst reading, even whilst I imagine it may offend or bewilder some other readers. Of course it is the characters that carry the story as we move from one highly unlikely situation to another. For certain values of fine that I was likely to notice, not having a detailed knowledge of the place behind the news: black South African readers may disagree. Maybe some of the hilariousness was lost in translation and different nationalities often have different senses of humour.

On the dust-jacket of the novel, words such "outrageously zany", "many laughs", a "comic delight", and "feel-good" are applied to it. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

I’d not previously read any of Jonasson’s books, but as this was on offer on Kindle I thought I’d dive in. The authorial voice mysteriously backing Per and Johanna, regardless of their actions, kept me on side to an extent, but this sort of beach read novel needs a touch more outright likeability; the second, more nefarious scheme is short on that: After a business strategy based on the assault of people who were, in the best case, not entirely innocent, the priest and the receptionist had steered onto the new track of swindling money out of those whose hearts were full of faith, hope, love and generosity, and whose circulatory systems, just to be safe, had been filled with wine. This story plot literally can be described as "A GANGSTER, A VICAR AND A RECEPTIONIST WALK INTO A BAR" and you get a funny read about an atheist female Protestant vicar, a hitman who has be released from prison and plans to keep "clean" and receptionist at a 1-star hotel (who happens to be currently homeless).