Description

The inspiration for thrilling BBC TV show Wisting, from the producers behind Wallander and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

William Wisting has encountered grotesque murders before.

Nonetheless, he finds the savagely beaten corpse in a holiday cottage on the Vestfold coast particularly disturbing.

Then the body is stolen.

His daughter Line, finally leaving a dangerous relationship, decides to stay in one of the cottages near the area. It isn’t long before she finds another body.

As Wisting works the case, he finds that the deaths are only the tip of the iceberg in a sophisticated criminal operation involving burglary, drug dealing and money laundering.

There will be more bodies, and a dangerous journey into organised crime for Wisting before the case reaches its breath-taking conclusion.

WINNER The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize
SHORTLISTED The Petrona Prize

Get your next Scandi crime fix from number one bestselling author Jorn Lier Horst.

Praise for the multi-award-winning William Wisting Mysteries:

‘Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.’ -The Times
‘Solid, satisfying police procedurals.’ -The Sunday Times
‘Plotting reigns supreme.’ -Financial Times
‘Gripping and well executed.’ -The Herald
‘Immensely impressive.’ -Barry Forshaw
‘A masterpiece of storytelling.’ -Lin Anderson

Publisher Review

'Jorn Lier Horst is a phenomenal new voice in Nordic Noir. His handling of landscape and location matches that of Henning Mankell. The narrative concern with digital technology is on a par with Stieg Larsson. What makes Lier Horst distinctive is his haunting ability to find the feasible in the psychopathic.' * Steve Peacock * 'Urban rather than natural settings are the stamping grounds of Jorn Lier Horst, whose Dregs (his first novel to be published in English) is immensely impressive. The writer's career as a police chief has supplied a key ingredient for the crime fiction form: credibility.' * Barry Forshaw, Nordic Noir *