Reviews

• “[Bakkeid] has received praise for his edgy humor, beautiful nature depictions, above-the-average high literary ambitions and great language. (…) His imagery is more ambitious than you would typically see in crime fiction. /…/ The narrative [in The Night Sailor] is smoothly composed. (…) The crescendo, which doesn’t only involve one hell of a storm for the crew at sea, but also an inopportune labor of Helene (and not least Audhild) is masterfully juggled. You shouldn’t underestimate the claustrophobic qualities of a boat in a storm at open sea, or the fear in a first-time visitor to the maternity ward. The chapters are short (…) and there are plenty of cliffhangers to propel the reader forwards. Bakkeid knows his sex’n’drugs’n’rock’n’roll and writes well about both LSD-trips and hallucinations and everything in-between, and has a refreshingly burlesque humoristic sense. /…/ Undersigned can sometimes not help but wonder what we’re supposed to do with all the morbid crime novels we’ve nearly drowned in over the past 20 years. But to the extent that we still need more, Heine Bakkeid is more than welcome to be the one to write them.”