The Victim

'The new novel by the stellar Norwegian crime-writing duo Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger tense, brutal and fast-moving' Sunday Times Book of the Month Two years ago, Alexander Blix was the lead investigator in a missing person's case where a young mother, Elisabeth Eie, had been kidnapped. The case came to a standstill when Blix's own daughter was killed and he was arrested for avenging her. Blix is a now free man again, but Elisabeth's kidnapper has found him, leaving evidence of her murder in Blix's mailbox. The police are unwilling to accept Blix's help: Even if he was acquitted of his crime, his career in law enforcement is over. But Elisabeth's murderer continues to pursue him, leading Blix to his new victims, while making it clear that he knows details from Blix's private life that the former investigator has never shared with anyone Meanwhile, Emma Ramm has been contacted by a teenage girl, Carmen, whose stepfather has been arrested on suspicion of killing a childhood friend. But there is no body. Nor are there any other suspects Blix and Ramm can rely only on each other. And when Blix's fingerprints are found on a child's drawing at a crime scene, the present comes uncomfortably close to the past. A past where a victim has found their very own form of therapy. And it is clear that someone is watching Shocking, relentless and unbearably tense, Victim marks the return of the international bestselling, blockbuster Blix & Ramm series from two of Norway's finest crime writers.

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