The Catalyst Killing
By (Author) Hans Olav Lahlum
Translated by Kari Dickson
Pan Macmillan
Pan Books
24th March 2016
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
839.8238
Paperback
416
Width 127mm, Height 203mm, Spine 24mm
454g
1970. Inspector Kolbjrn Kristiansen, known as K2, witnesses a young woman desperately trying to catch a tram only to have the doors close before her face. The next time he sees her, she is dead - her body found between the tram tracks. It seems she has been shot . . . As K2 begins to investigate, with the inestimable help of his precocious assistant Patricia, he discovers that the whole affair started two years earlier, when a group of politically active young people set out on a walking tour in Valdres. One night, it seems, the charismatic leader Falko Reinhardt vanished. This latest victim was Reinhardt's girlfriend. It doesn't take K2 long to realise that to solve the present-day murder he must go back in time, perhaps further than 1968. But as he and Patricia begin to unravel the events behind this mystery, the detective fails to notice that his young assistant has her own problems to face. . .
"superlative." --Publishers Weekly
Hans Olav Lahlum is a Norwegian crime author, historian, chess player and politician. The books that make up his crime series, featuring Criminal Investigator Kolbjrn Kristiansen (known as K2) and his precocious young assistant Patricia, are bestsellers in Norway.