Vintergrav Winter Grave

When Lars’ wife Henriette goes missing from their fjord side cabin on a dark night, the disappearance shakes their small town to the core. Everyone believes Lars killed her. Lars – who knows more than he lets on – has spent the year since keeping up the pretense, not least towards his police officer brother and distressed teenage daughter. Then Lars’ new girlfriend also mysteriously goes missing, at the same time as he starts to receive disturbing texts from a phone number that should have stayed silent forever. As one of Norway’s top homicide detectives is sent out to prove that Lars is a killer, the past comes back to haunt Lars and sends him into a nightmarish downward spiral.

Winter Grave is an eerie and gripping crime novel about family ties, revenge and jealousy.

Reviews

“[A] brilliant thriller. /…/ [Winter Grave] is unsettling, occasionally hilarious and constantly thrilling. /…/ I make no secret of the fact I’m a fan of Heine Bakkeid’s writing (…). Winter Grave is also dark noir on an elite level. /…/ Personally, I believe it’s crucial that a good crime novel engages the reader and propels them forwards, page after page, without a nano second worth of boredom. This rings true for Winter Grave. The short chapters, the scene shifts and constant new disasters gives the narrative a high tempo. /…/ Behind all the darkness, the absurd and brutal lies a genuine narrational zest.”

★★★★★★

Harstad Tidene, Norway
“Heine Bakkeid is one of the Norwegian crime authors who can truly write. His novels tend to be set in the dramatic nature of Northern Norway, and he savours and excels at portraying it. (…) He is strong within the areas where nine out of ten crime authors fail. /…/ Black humor lies at the heart of so much here. /…/ [Winter Grave] is thrilling and outlandish, action-packed and fast-paced. And just to emphasize it once again: few Norwegian crime writers write prose as great as Riverton Prize winner Heine Bakkeid.

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Bok365, Norway