Nordic Noir is a genre I rarely dip into, but every time I do I always say I must read more of it. This book is an example of just why I should.
What a story.
Twelve months after a Government Ministers Daughter is kidnapped, and a man is convicted of killing her, her finger print turns up at a murder scene, and it won’t be the last time it does.
When Naia Thulin is tasked with investigating the murder she’s not happy. All she wants to do is hand her transfer request in, to get away from the murder team, and join the hot unit investigating Cyber Crime.
Her day gets worse when she’s partnered up with the man nobody wants, Garry Hess.
Hess has just been returned to the team from Europol where he’s under investigation for basically being a lazy waste of space who drinks too much.
All Thulin wants to do is solve the case and move on to her new role. Hess isn’t helping, when he’s there he doesn’t seem interested, and when he is all he does is rub people up the wrong way.
But then they stumble onto something. It doesn’t make them popular with the rest of the team, and even the bosses try to divert them from their lines of inquiry.
Although thinking the same way the two hardly function as a team a and keep coming to the same conclusions working independently of each other.
This gives the reader a real twisting plot to get their head around, and with every twist there’s a shocking revelation.
I loved this book. It’s dark, and like the best crime novels it’s a great psychological thriller.
Soren Sveistrup is a screen writer probably most famous in the U.K. for the Nordic noir thriller series THE KILLING. It shows in his writing, he paints the scenes, and builds the plots brilliantly. The characters in this book jump of the page.
A cracking read
Pages: 491
Publishers: Penguin
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