
Uncovering class divisions, racial conflicts, and tangled emotions, this gritty, shockingnovel of suspense heralds the arrival of a major new talent.Henning Juul is a veteran investigative crime reporter in Oslo, Norway. A horrific fire killed his six-year-old son, cut scars across his face, and ended his marriage, and on his first day back at the job after the terrible tragedy a body is discovere...
Series: The Henning Juul Series (Book 1)
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Atria Books; Translation edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781451616453
ISBN-13: 978-1451616453
ASIN: 1451616457
Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1572595
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This is the first novel in Thomas Enger's series about Norwegian crime reporter Henning Juul, and it's much stronger overall that the slow beginning would suggest. We spend the first few chapters in the head of Juul, and it's not a pleasant place to...
the city’s public parks. A beautiful female college student has been stoned to death and buried up to her neck, her body left bloody and exposed. The brutality of the crime shakes the whole country, but despite his own recent trauma – and the fact that his ex-wife’s new boyfriend is also on the case - Henning is given the assignment. When the victim’s boyfriend, a Pakistani native, is arrested, Henning feels certain the man is innocent. This was not simply a Middle Eastern-style honor killing in the face of adultery – it was a far more complicated gesture, and one that will drag Henning into a darkness he’s never dreamed of.