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The second instalment in the Cold Case Quartet from one of Scandinavia's most successful writers

About the Author

J rn Lier Horst (Author) Having worked as a police officer and head of investigations before becoming a full-time writer, J RN LIER HORST 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 and he's published in twenty-six languages. The Wisting series, produced by the team behind Wallander and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, was a hit BBC series in 2019. 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.

Reviews

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 -- Marcel Berlin * The Times *

Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today -- Joan Smith * 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 *
Jorn Lier Horst writes some of the best Scandinavian crime fiction available. His books are superbly plotted and addictive, the characters wonderfully realised * Yrsa Sigurdardottir *
Another good, solid police procedural * Connaught Telegraph *
Praise for Jorn Lier Horst * - *
Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers -- Marcel Berlin * The Times *
Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times *
A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters * Choice Magazine *
Pure evil in a solid Wisting crime novel. /..../ Jorn Lier Horst delivers credible crime fiction as always * Norway *
With Ill Will, Jorn 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 *