The Night Travels Alone
Kjerringøy: A hiker arrives at a cabin that isn’t marked on the map. Outside, six ravens hang in cages, all in a row. As he approaches, a figure comes towards him, a faceless man.
Down at Kjerringøy’s trading post, Tuva Mjelde and two friends are taking an ice bath. One of them gets stuck in something beneath the water. They manage to pull her free, but something else drifts to the surface: the body of Emilio, Tuva’s former lover. Just a few days later, Tuva is found dead outside her own home.
Around the same time, the young Veronika Paulsen is found dead in a small, damp apartment in Bodø, and someone has attempted to make it look like suicide.
Soon, chief investigator Jakob Weber and former Kripos investigator Noora Yun Sande will come face to face with a wickedness the likes of which they have never before encountered. Kjerringøy’s beautiful wilderness conceals a heart of darkness. Jakob is certain of one thing: if the police don’t find and stop the killer, that individual will kill again.
This is the second book in the series about the investigators Jakob Weber and Noora Yun Sande and their colleagues in Nordland police district.
Foreign Sales
The Netherlands, Uitgeverij Marmer
Germany, Pendragon
UK, Orenda Books
Bulgaria, Izida
«All in all, this is yet another highly successful crime novel from the hand of Ørjan N. Karlsson, which will delight readers in Bodø and beyond. Last time, the dice roll was a somewhat weak five out of six, this time we’re talking a strong five out of six. The next book about Jakob Weber is already on its way, and if Karlsson keeps growing as a crime writer at the pace he’s been keeping up so far, a six-out-of-six might very well be waiting for him.»
«Ørjan N. Karlsson, folks, is, if you ask me, one of Scandinavia’s best crime writers, because The Night Travels Alone will take your breath away. The way I see it, very few writers in Norway keep delivering successful crime novels time and again. […] I take my hat off. With The Night Travels Alone, he consolidates his position as one of Scandinavia’s best crime writers, enough said.»
«One of the most interesting and original crime series this country has to offer.»