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Review: HOME BEFORE DARK, by EVA BJÖRG ÆGISDÓTTIR, Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

PUBLICATION DATE: 17th JULY 2025
HARDBACK ORIGINAL | £ 16. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS

November, 1967, Iceland.

Fourteen-year-old Marsí has a secret penpal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister’s name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time.

But when the date arrives, Marsí is prevented from going, and during
the night her sister Stína goes missing – her bloodstained anorak later
found at the place where Marsí and her penpal had agreed to meet.

November, 1977.

Stína’s disappearance remains unsolved. Then an
unexpected letter arrives for Marsí It’s from her penpal, and he’s still
out there…

Desperate for news of her missing sister, but terrified that he might
coming after her next, Marsí returns to her hometown and embarks on
an investigation of her own.

But Marsí has always had trouble distinguishing her vivid dreams from
reality, and as insomnia threatens her sanity, it seems she can’t even
trust her own memories.

And her sister’s killer is still on the loose…

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Blog Tour Review: Into Thin Air, by Orjan Karlsson

PUBLICATION DATE: 16 JANUARY 2025
PAPERBACK | £ 9.99 | ORENDA BOOKS

Description

When nineteen-year-old Iselin Hanssen disappears during a run in a popular hiking area in Bodø, Northern Norway, suspicion quickly falls on her boyfriend. For investigator Jakob Weber, the case seems clear-cut, almost unexceptional, even though there is some suggestion that Iselin lived parts of her life beneath the radar of both family and friends.

But events take a dramatic turn when another woman disappears in similar circumstances – this time on the island of Røst, hundreds of miles off the Norwegian coast, in the wild ocean.

Rumours that a killer is on the loose begin to spread, terrifying the local population and leading to wild conspiracies. But then Jakob discovers that this isn’t the first time that young women have vanished without a trace in the region, and it becomes clear that someone is hiding something.

And another murderous spree may have just begun…

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Review: Victim, by Jorn Lier Horst & Thomas Enger

PUBLICATION DATE: 7th NOVEMBER 2024
PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | £ 9. 99 | ORENDA BOOKS

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Two years ago, Alexander Blix was the lead investigator in a missing person’s case where a young mother, Elisabeth Eie, had been kidnapped. The case came to a standstill when Blix’s own daughter was killed and he was arrested for avenging her. Blix is a now free man again, but Elisabeth’s kidnapper has found him, leaving evidence of her murder in Blix’s mailbox.

The police are unwilling to accept Blix’s help. Even if he was acquitted of his crime, his career in law enforcement is over. But Elisabeth’s murderer continues to pursue him, leading Blix to his new victims, while making it clear that he knows details from Blix’s private life that the former investigator has never shared with anyone…

Meanwhile, Emma Ramm has been contacted by a teenage girl, Carmen, whose stepfather has been arrested on suspicion of killing a childhood friend. But there is no body. Nor are there any other suspects…

Blix and Ramm can rely only on each other. And when Blix’s fingerprints are found on a child’s drawing at a crime scene, the present comes uncomfortably close to the past. A past where a victim has found their very own form of therapy. And it is clear that someone is watching…

Shocking, relentless and unbearably tense, Victim marks the return of the international bestselling, blockbuster Blix & Ramm series from two of Norway’s finest crime writers.

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Review: Pursued By Death, by Gunnar Staalesen, translated by Don Bartlett

Description

When Varg Veum reads the newspaper headline ‘YOUNG MAN MISSING’, he realises he’s seen the youth just a few days earlier – at a crossroads in the countryside, with his two friends. It turns out that the three were on their way to a demonstration against a commercial fish-farming facility in the tiny village of Solvik, north of Bergen.

Varg heads to Solvik, initially out of curiosity, but when he chances upon a dead body in the sea, he’s pulled into a dark and complex web of secrets, feuds and jealousies.

Is the body he’s found connected to the death of a journalist who was digging into the fish farm’s operations two years earlier? And does either incident have something to do with the competition between the two powerful families that dominate Solvik’s salmon-farming industry?
Or are the deaths the actions of the ‘Village Beast’ – the brutal small-town justice meted out by rural communities in this part of the world.

Shocking, timely and full of breath-taking twists and turns, Pursued by Death reaffirms Gunnar Staalesen as one of the world’s greatest crime writers.

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