The second instalment in the Cold Case Quartet from one of Scandinavia'smost successful writers.
J rn Lier Horst (Author)
J rn Lier Horst worked as a police officer and head of
investigations before becoming a full-time writer, and has
established himself as one of the most successful authors to come
out of Scandinavia. His books have sold over two million copies in
his native Norway alone, been No. 1 international bestsellers, and
he's published in twenty-six languages around the world. In 2024,
he was awarded the prestigious Finnish Whodunnit Society's Honorary
Award for excellence in foreign crime fiction.
The Wisting TV adaptation, produced by the team behind Wallander
and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, was a hit series. The first
two series are available to stream on BBC 4, with the third still
to come.
Anne Bruce (Translator)
Anne Bruce studied Norwegian and English at the University of
Glasgow and now lives on the Isle of Arran, Scotland. She has
translated a number of crime novels by Anne Holt and Jorn Lier
Horst, including the Petrona-Prize-winning The Caveman and When It
Grows Dark, which was longlisted for the CWA International Dagger
in 2017.
Horst is brilliant on the day-to-day details of investigation,
while keeping tension to the end
*Sunday Times*
Impeccably crafted police procedural
*Sunday Times Crime Club*
A well-crafted, atmospheric, character-driven thriller - I couldn't
put it down!
*Alex Dahl, author of The Boy At The Door*
Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers
*The Times*
Jørn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime
novelists writing today
*Sunday Times*
Plotting reigns supreme. Fortunately, that's Horst's primary
skill
*Barry Forshaw, Financial Times*
A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters
*Choice Magazine*
A nail biting deftly plotted thriller by a Norwegian police officer
turned bestselling author
*Saga Magazine*
Lier Horst's novels stand comparison with the best police
procedurals from anywhere in the world . . . polished and stylish .
. . Wisting is a cracking creation . . . this is a riveting police
procedural, it's a page turner, inventive and thrilling by
turns
*NB Magazine*
If you liked Wallander you'll enjoy this too
*Crime Fiction Lover*
One of the finest novels in one of the best police procedural
series out there and a more than decent slice of scandi-noir
too
*NB*
Jørn Lier Horst writes some of the best Scandinavian crime fiction
available. His books are superbly plotted and addictive, the
characters wonderfully realised
*Yrsa Sigurdardóttir*
Another good, solid police procedural
*Connaught Telegraph*
Praise for Jørn Lier Horst
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Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers
*The Times*
Jørn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime
novelists writing today
*Sunday Times*
A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters
*Choice Magazine*
Pure evil in a solid Wisting crime novel. /..../ Jørn Lier Horst
delivers credible crime fiction as always
*Norway*
With Ill Will, Jørn Lier Horst claims the number one spot on the
winner's podium. /.../ Ill Will is the most brutal and ruthless
novel penned by Horst to date. A ruthlessness that Horst delivers
with elegance. /.../ The interplay between father and daughter, the
police man and the journalist, is once again brilliantly
portrayed
*Norway*
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