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The second instalment in the Cold Case Quartet from one of Scandinavia's most successful writers It's been fifteen years since Simon Meier walked out of his house, never to be seen again. And just one day since politician Bernard Clausen was found dead at his cabin on the Norwegian coast. When Chief Inspector William Wisting is asked to investigate he soon discovers he may have found the key to solving Meier's disappearance. But doing so means he must work with an old adversary to piece together what really happened all those years ago. It's a puzzle that leads them into a dark underworld on the trail of Clausen's interests and vices . A shady place from which may never emerge - especially when he finds it leads closer to home than he ever could have imagined.

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A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters * Choice Magazine * Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers -- Marcel Berlin * The Times * Praise for Jorn Lier Horst * - * A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters * Choice Magazine * Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers -- Marcel Berlin * The Times * A well-crafted, atmospheric, character-driven thriller - I couldn't put it down! * Alex Dahl, author of The Boy At The Door * Praise for Jorn Lier Horst * - *

A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters * Choice Magazine * Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers -- Marcel Berlin * The Times * Praise for Jorn Lier Horst * - * 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 * A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters * Choice Magazine * Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers -- Marcel Berlin * The Times * A well-crafted, atmospheric, character-driven thriller - I couldn't put it down! * Alex Dahl, author of The Boy At The Door * Impeccably crafted police procedural * Sunday Times Crime Club * Horst is brilliant on the day-to-day details of investigation, while keeping tension to the end * Sunday Times *

A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters * Choice Magazine * Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers -- Marcel Berlin * The Times * Praise for Jorn Lier Horst * - * A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters * Choice Magazine * Jorn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today -- Joan Smith * Sunday Times * Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers -- Marcel Berlin * The Times * A well-crafted, atmospheric, character-driven thriller - I couldn't put it down! * Alex Dahl, author of The Boy At The Door * Impeccably crafted police procedural * Sunday Times Crime Club *

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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 three million copies in his native Norway alone, been No. 1 international bestsellers, and he's published in more than forty countries 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 three series are available to stream on BBC4. 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.

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