H.K. Fauskanger

Crime mysteries and extinct languages

H.K. Fauskanger (born 1971) lives on Askøy, outside Bergen. He has studied philology and religious studies and has a knowledge of Classical Hebrew, Greek and Coptic. He made his debut as a crime writer in 2012 with The Chest, a novel about a case Sherlock Holmes solves during a visit to Norway in 1895. Fauskanger founded and runs Ardalambion, a website devoted to the study of J.R.R. Tolkien's invented languages.

Fiction

• The Mark of Shame — crime novel, 2015.
• Skarlagenssalen — crime novel, 2013.
• The Chest — crime novel, 2012 (Baskerville).
• Fullmåne over Uroba — novel, 2009 (Licentia Forlag).