Reviews

• “[The Hunting Dogs] should be read by anyone who likes crime fiction. It’s quite simply astonishingly well-written.”

• “Jørn Lier Horst tells this story with the best tools of the genre and without resorting to any simple solutions. It feels as if the novel comes with a built-in page-turner.”

• “It’s an amazing read!”

• “Goes straight to the reader’s heart.”

• “With The Hunting Dogs Jørn Lier Horst delivers a seamless novel – his best so far.”

• “The Hunting Dogs is a novel worth the hunt.”

• “It couldn’t be done any better. /…/ The Hunting Dogs has everything one could wish for in this genre: intensity, an intrigue filled with the most exquisite of characters, and a talent for portrayal that enters the realm of psychological profiling, both when it comes to the central figures, and the perpetrators. All handled by an author who can build as well as push the intrigue forward and give the contents complete credibility.”

• “An effective hunt.”

• “Jørn Lier Horst has with The Hunting Dogs delivered a page-turner. Again.”

• “A piece of crime fiction you guaranteedly won’t be able to put down.”

• “[A] glimmering crime story that makes Horst one of my Norwegian favorites.”

• “Brilliant /…/ My favourite at the moment.”

• “Jørn Lier Horst /…/ has an ability to convey the police’s curious sniffing so that you yourself are drawn into the hunt.”

• “Jørn Lier Horst is a promising new friendship and his novel The Hunting Dogs suits me perfectly; a good blend of private life and suspense.”

• “The Hunting Dogs is a really excellent story, with a well-developed set of characters and a smart intrigue with several mysteries running parallel to each other; the suspense is also allowed to build gradually.”

• “This page-turner is worth an all-nighter. Awarded the title of 2014’s best foreign novel of the year.”

• “Gripping and well executed.”

• “An immaculately plotted, beautifully structured novel, complex and full of tension.”

• “In Jørn Lier Horst we have found a Scandinavian author of class.”