Nattmannen The Night Man
Wisting: The Early Cases #5
Larvik, Norway. An autumn morning shrouded in thick fog. When the haze pulls back across the town square, it reveals a horrific sight: a woman’s head impaled on a stake. Her identity is unknown, but she is obviously young.
William Wisting is facing the most grotesque murder in the whole of his career as a policeman. All of Norway is shocked and the mass media is demanding a quick resolution. The pressure doesn’t lessen when a second body is found, dragged up from the bottom of the river. The investigation takes Wisting into brutal surroundings; weapons dealers, drug smugglers, and shameless exploitation of the most defenceless among us.
Reviews
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“Belongs to the cream of Norwegian crime writers. /…/ Yet another outstanding crime novel from the well-informed author.”
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“The Night Man is an extremely well-crafted crime novel. Jørn Lier Horst begins with a gruesome incident, almost to scare the reader into engaging with the text, but then he doesn’t need many more shock effects.”
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“The Night Man is Jørn Lier Horst’s fifth book about the policeman William Wisting, and he has long been established as a solid craftsman of crime. As Horst himself is a police investigator, he has a good grasp of the professional aspects, and he is a clever narrator who builds up the mystery in an outstanding way.”
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“Wonderful suspense, grotesque crimes, pace and tension from beginning to end. Jørn Lier Horst’s new crime novel The Night Man has most. Let it be said at once: The Night Man is Lier Horst’s best book so far. And that says a lot, considering all the praise critics have heaped on his earlier publications.”
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“Yet another solid police novel to please crime-lovers.”
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“Well-written, important, and very thrilling!”
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“I have said it before, but I’ll say it again: I consider Jørn Lier Horst to be one of the sharpest knives in the drawer when it comes to writing crime novels in Norway.”
- Author
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Jørn Lier Horst
- Published
- 2009
- Genre
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- Crime
- Pages
- 304
- Reading material
Norwegian edition
English translation
- Rights sold
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Denmark, Modtryk
Greece, Dioptra
Norway, Gyldendal
Poland, Smak Slowa
Slovakia, Premedia
Sweden, Lind & Co
UK, Michael Joseph
- Film rights sold
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Norway, Cinenord
