The second instalment in the Cold Case Quartet from one of Scandinavia's most successful writers.
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 is being adapted for TV by the producers behind Wallander and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
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 * Verdens Gang, Norway
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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 * Tvedestrandsposten, Norway *
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