THE OWL ALWAYS HUNTS AT NIGHT

BY SAMUEL BJORK (DOUBLEDAY) OUT 20 APRIL TRANSLATED BY CHARLOTTE BARSLUND

By PHILIP KEMP

Like its predecessor I’m Travelling Alone, The Owl Always Hunts At Night features a pair of Oslo police detectives: Holger Munch (middle-aged, tubby, dogged) and Mia Krüger (young, intuitive and unconventional). You might anticipate echoes of the teaming of Stieg Larsson’s Mikael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander, and you wouldn’t be far wrong. Krüger in particular, with her tormented past and knack for playing hunches, is strongly reminiscent of Salander. Bjork’s novel hits several more Scandi Noir buttons. His cops – of course – have dark personal issues and troubled private lives: Munch agonises over his broken marriage and Krüger is near-suicidal, while some of their colleagues struggle with drink problems. The killer, too, has a traumatic past; no common-or-garden murderer, he subjects his victims to bizarre rituals and gross humiliations,…

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