Jorn Lier Horst, trans. from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce. Sandstone (Dufour, dist.), $17 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-910124-04-8
In Horst’s absorbing fourth mystery featuring Chief Insp. William Wisting of the Larvik police to be published in English (after 2014’s The Hunting Dogs), the 53-year old widower’s investigative journalist daughter, Line, researches a story...
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Jorn Lier Horst, trans. from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce. Minotaur, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-11136-4
A helpful opening author’s note to Horst’s solid fifth William Wisting mystery to be published in English (after 2015’s The Caveman) not only outlines the Larvik, Norway, chief inspector’s personal history but also invokes a major series theme: “The
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Jorn Lier Horst, trans. from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce. Sandstone (Dufour, dist.), $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-908737-49-6
Horst makes his U.S. debut with his intricately plotted seventh mystery featuring Chief Insp. William Wisting (after Dregs), which won Norway’s Booksellers’ Prize in 2012. Break-ins at summer cottages in Vestfold County on Norway’s southwest coast...
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Jorn Lier Horst, trans. from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce. Sandstone (Dufour, dist.), $18 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-908737-63-2
Chief Insp. William Wisting started his career by solving the murder of Cecilia Linde, a girl who went missing and was found dead 12 days later. Seventeen years afterward, in Horst’s engaging third mystery featuring the Norwegian policeman to be...
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Jorn Lier Horst, trans. from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce. Sandstone (Dufour, dist.), $16 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-910985-48-9
Horst’s excellent sixth William Wisting mystery to appear in English (after Ordeal) returns to the chief inspector’s early career in between his present-day reflections on his 30-plus years of service in Larvik, a small town in Norway’s southwest...
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Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger, trans. from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce. Orenda (IPG, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (276p) ISBN 978-1-913193-00-3
This outstanding series launch from Horst (the Inspector William Wisting series) and Enger (The Henning Juul series) introduces 40ish Alexander Blix, a psychologically wounded Oslo homicide detective. When former star athlete Sonja Nordstrøm fails...
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