The Hunting Dogs - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908737646 ISBN 13: 9781908737649

Publisher: Sandstone Press

Synopsis

Winner of The Glass Key (top Nordic novel 2013) and winner of The Golden Revolver (top Norwegian crime novel 2012). Seventeen years ago, William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway's most widely publicized criminal cases, when the young Cecilia Linde was killed. Now it is discovered that evidence was planted and the wrong man convicted. Wisting is suspended and the media smell blood. William Wisting has spent his life hunting criminals, but now it is he who is hunted. To discover what really happened he must work alone and under cover, assisted only by his journalist daughter Line. Then another young woman disappears.

About this title

About the Author

Jorn Lier Horst was born in 1970, in Bamble, Telemark, Norway. He has worked as a policeman in Larvik since 1995. His debut novel in 2004, Key Witness, was based on a true murder story. The William Wisting novel series - Key Witness (2004), Goodbye, Felicia (2005), When the Sea Calms (2006), The Only One (2007), and The Night Man (2009) - has been extremely successful in his native Norway as well as Germany and the Netherlands. Dregs, his first book published in English, has sold well in both the UK and North America.

Review

Horst s engaging third mystery featuring the Norwegian policeman. . . A recent unsolved murder and another young girls disappearance heighten the suspense. --Publishers Weekly

Wisting is a taciturn but empathetic hero who's forced to revisit a 17-year-old murder case. --Kirkus Reviews

Edition details

• Publisher: Sandstone Press
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908737646
• ISBN 13: 9781908737649
• Binding: Paperback