Jens Amundsen
A Vik Crime/Blue Salamander Edition 2012. ,New translation with added material by the author. , ,Chief Inspector Harald Sohlberg returns to the Oslo police district where his career started and almost ended in disgrace and scandal. , ,Although he is experienced with hardened and heartless criminals, C.I. Harald Sohlberg has never met as devious and brilliant a criminal mind as when he is called to investigate an unsolved case in Holmenkollen, one of Osloâ€™s sleepy and boring suburbs. , ,C.I. Sohlberg meets his match amid the beautiful homes and gardens of Osloâ€™s well-to-do professional class. An elementary schoolâ€”Grindbakken Skole, Pilot Hill Schoolâ€”becomes Ground Zero for the most shocking and unforgettable of crimes. , ,Confronted with his own difficult and controversial past, Sohlberg must now find a missing 7-year-old boy who vanished while he was inside his school, surrounded by classmates, teachers, and parents at a science fair. The case brings back memories of Norwayâ€™s worst serial predator, Lommemannen The Pocket Man, and his predecessor, The Smiley Face Killer. , ,Chief Inspector Sohlberg has spent decades investigating Norwayâ€™s most devious criminals as a Police Chief Inspector in Oslo. Sohlberg has also hunted some of worldâ€™s most violent and ruthless criminals as an adviser to Interpol. Years of working abroad for Interpol have made him a stranger to his own country and people. Rumors of his wife joining a religious cult in America certainly donâ€™t help. , ,The Harold Sohlberg crime novel series by Jens Amundsen joins Norwayâ€™s best crime detective series, including the Inspector Konrad Sejer series by Karin Fossum, the Inspector Gunnarstranda series by K. O. Dahl, and the Detective Harry Hole series by Jo NesbÃ¸. , ,Dark undercurrents of Norwegian and modern society pull this classic of Nordic noir into new and uncharted waters that are as terrifying as they are thrilling. Itâ€™s time to enjoy Sohlberg and the Missing Schoolboy, the debut novel of Jens Amundsen. His novels on Chief Inspector Harald Sohlberg masterfully blend the psychological novel into the crime, suspense, thriller, and detective genre. , ,Sohlberg and the Missing Schoolboy introduces the characters and situations that explode in White Death in TromsÃ¸, the sequel to Sohlberg and the Missing Schoolboy. , ,This book includes the first chapter of White Death in TromsÃ¸.
Mystery,Scandinavian Lite...,Nordic Noir,Emergency Services,Police,European Literature,Scandinavian Literature
Sohlberg and the Missing Schoolboy: an Inspector Sohlberg mystery