
By Geir Tangen
Dog Days is a profound crime novel about power and powerlessness in intimate relationships, about violence and manipulation, about what grinds us down and how even our humanity can be put at stake when the ground crumbles beneath our feet.
A little boy is found murdered near a hiking trail in Haugesund. He has been beaten to death with a rock and thrown down a steep slope. The brutality of the violence against the defenceless child shocks even seasoned police officers. Hours and days pass without anyone reporting the boy missing, and despite the fact that police superintendent Gabriel Fjell and his team are working around the clock, they are unable to identify him. Gradually they uncover a story darker, bleaker and more dangerous than anyone could have imagined.