Smoke Screen

When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things arent adding up ... The second instalment in the addictive, atmospheric, award-winning Blix & Ramm series.\r\n\r\n An exercise in literary tag-teaming from two of Norways biggest crime writers with a bold new take ... a series with potential Sunday Times \r\n\r\nGrim, gory and filled with plenty of dark twists ... Theres definitely a Scandinavian chill in the air with this fascinating read Sun\r\n\r\nAlongside Jo Nesbos Knife, Smoke Screen is this summers most anticipated read, and it doesnt disappoint Tvedestrandsposten, Norway\r\n\r\n------------------------\r\n\r\nOslo, New Years Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert. \r\n\r\nPolice officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, Blix instantly recognises her as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Semplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten ten years earlier ... and never found.\r\n\r\nBlix and Ramm join forces to investigate the unsolved case, as public interest heightens, the terror threat is raised, and it becomes clear that Patricias disappearance is not all that it seems...\r\n\r\n------------------------\r\n\r\nPraise for the Blix & Ramm series:\r\n\r\nEverything about this crime novel sings, the relationship between Blix and Emma, which is complex, but also the relationship between Blix and Fosse and Kovic. The past bleeds into the present and the clever melding of the strands of the story and the slow reveal of details that propel the story is masterly. This tale often surprises or shifts in subtle ways that are pleasing and avoid cliche. As the opener for a new series this is a cracker, long live the marriage of Horst and Enger New Books Magazine\r\n\r\nA fast-moving, punchy, serial killer investigative novel with a whammy of an ending. If this is the first in the Blix and Ramm series, then heres to many more! LoveReading\r\n\r\nA clever, gripping crime novel with personality, flair, and heart Crime by the Book\r\n\r\nA stunningly excellent collaboration from Thomas Enger and Jorn Lier Horst .... Its a brutal tale of fame, murder, and reality TV that gets the pulse racing Russel McLean\r\n\r\nNow - what happens when you put two of the most distinguished writers of Nordic noir in tandem? Death Deserved by Thomas Enger and Jorn Lier Horst suggests it was a propitious publishing move; a ruthless killer is pursued by a tenacious celebrity blogger and a damaged detective Financial Times