Routine but enjoyable

What did you like most about Frozen Moment?

Ignoring the question here... I'm no expert on crime fiction. I understand there are two main kinds: the one where the reader/listener is driven by curiosity about whodunnit, and is concerned mostly with the clues, and the other in which the murders mainly provide focus to the author's musings on life, the universe and everything. This book is very much in the latter category, as numerous characters share their life stories and ponder on such stunning revelations as: relationships often require more effort than we're prepared to make, and life often doesn't turn out as planned.
I expected to have much more difficulty following the story than I did, seeing as how there are a lot of characters, all with Swedish names, some with nicknames, some with changed surnames, some referred to almost exclusively by their first name then suddenly by their surname hours later and so on. But on the whole it was fairly easy. Remembering who was related to whom, who liven next door to whom and so on was occasionally a little harder, but I found that if I went with the flow it became clear.
I had a few niggles. If I were a senior investigating officer, and I fell head over heels for one of the witnesses, and I knew the feeling was mutual, I'd probably suggest we put things on hold until the case has been solved. I don't think I'd try to keep the relationship secret from my boss, then suddenly end it in case I get found out.
Also, nearly every scene begins with a pronoun: "He walked into his apartment..." or "She nervously picked up the phone..." but His or Her identity isn't revealed for several sentences. It's fairly easy to guess who the person is, but it's a little bit annoying.
We also get a few too many instances of telepathy - if a character is thinking about the time in his childhood when an aunt bought him some ginger biscuits, and he could do with a ginger biscuit right now, another character will suggest he buy some ginger biscuits "as if she had read his thoughts."
The prose is clear, sometimes vivid, occasionally a little cliched; I winced at least once, though that might have been the translator's fault.

What did you like best about this story?

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What does Jonathan Keeble bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

On the whole I really like his character voices, even though one or two sound a teensy bit like women played by men in Monty Python: "How did he know there was a penguin on top of the TV set?"

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It kept me reasonably interested, and that's why I gave the story 4 stars rather than 3. Although I enjoyed it, I don't feel I'd have been any the poorer if I hadn't.

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A good listen

Gripping story, well narrated. It was rather complicated by the " love" interest, which it could have done without. O.K. 😊bye

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Don't waste your time or money

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Jonathan Keeble is one of the best

What could Camilla Ceder have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Stopped trying to analyze everyone.

Have you listened to any of Jonathan Keeble’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Jonathan Keeble is the best. Loved his "Stone Bruises"

You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

Only the reader: the rest was a waste of my time

Any additional comments?

At first I thought this book had been written by Camilla Lackberg under a pseudonym, in which she was going to introduce new main personalities.
This book is awful, and not even “Jonathan Keeble” one of the top audio book readers could make it better
There are too many characters, and too many storylines going on that add nothing to the story.
First, the author tries to make the murderer someone you would like to guess, Then as it is so obvious, she takes another route and brings him in as a player, then gives us not one but two murderers

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