Book Synopsis:
Suspended from duty, Detective Frølich is working as a private investigator, when his girlfriend’s colleague asks for his help with a female asylum seeker, who the authorities are about to deport. She claims to have a sister in Norway, and fears that returning to her home country will mean instant death.
Frølich quickly discovers the whereabouts of the young woman’s sister, but things become increasingly complex when she denies having a sibling, and Frølich is threatened off the case by the police. As the body count rises, it becomes clear that the answers lie in an old investigation, and the mysterious sister, who is now on the run…
A dark, chilling and up-to-the-minute Nordic Noir thriller, Sister is also a tense and well-plotted murder mystery with a moving tragedy at its heart, cementing Kjell Ola Dahl as one of the greatest crime writers of our generation.
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My Review:
I’m a huge fan of this author’s books so I was incredibly excited to be invited onto the blog tour for this his latest book. Once again the author has written a fabulous, compelling and fast paced book which was hugely enjoyable to read.
One of the things that I most enjoyed about this book was how the reader gets to unravel the mystery alongside Frank as he tries to make sense of the muddle of the case he gets handed. It was great fun to try to unpick everything and to try to work out what was going on. There were lots of twists and false leads which kept me guessing and ensured that the actual solution was a complete surprise to me.
The actual case was a very intriguing one following asylum seekers and ship wrecks which are quite current topics unfortunately. Frank really impressed me with his dogged determination to try and solve the case by going through everything with a fine tooth comb. It’s a complex story and there is always lots going on to keep the reader interested so it’s very difficult to put down. The ending was very clever and I thought it was an interesting, unusual way to end things.
Huge thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to Orenda for my copy of this book.
About The Author:
One of the fathers of the Nordic Noir genre, Kjell Ola Dahl was born in 1958 in Gjøvik. He made his debut in 1993, and has since published eleven novels, the most prominent of which is a series of police procedurals cum psychological thrillers featuring investigators Gunnarstranda and Frølich. In 2000 he won the Riverton Prize for The Last Fix and he won both the prestigious Brage and Riverton Prizes for The Courier in 2015. His work has been published in fourteen countries, and he lives in Oslo.Follow Kjell Ola on Twitter @ko_dahl
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