The Border

... the kick-off is great, but the ending is even better.

Knut Faldbakken has established himself as a crime writer of great quality ... In this, his third crime novel, Faldbakken has done it again: he has written superlatively well.

Hauntingly good from Faldbakken – In his third crime novel Faldbakken dazzles us with his composition, language, character descriptions, and narrative drive. This is a cracking good book on trafficking and smuggling in the border regions of Finnskogen, but it is much more than the mere tale of a crime and its solving. With a tight web of convincing characters the author depicts the clash between organised criminality in the Balkans and the fight of ordinary people for dignity and normality. …Faldbakken keeps a firm and elegant grip on all the threads, There is pace but we never lose touch with the little details that make these characters so full of vitality.