The Frozen Woman
Publishing Details
The Frozen Woman
By (Author) Jon Michelet
Translated by Don Bartlett
Bedford Square Publishers
No Exit Press
20th September 2017
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
839.82374
Physical Properties
256
Width 135mm, Height 216mm
Description
In the depths of the Norwegian winter, left-wing lawyer Vilhelm Thygesen discovers a frozen young woman in his garden. She has been stabbed to death. Stribolt and Vaage, the police officers assigned to the case, assume the victim was a drug courier from Eastern Europe. Shortly afterwards, a young motorcyclist belonging to a biker gang once represented by Thygesen is killed in a motorcycle accident. His bike has been tampered with. The police set out to establish the connection between the frozen woman, Thygesen, and the bikers who are terrorising the neighbourhood.
Reviews
The Frozen Woman is shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2018 Award. Winners will be announced in London on October 25th. The shortlists were also mentioned in the July 30, 2018 issue of Shelf Awareness.
Jo Nesb fans will welcome this pithy chronicle of crime and retribution * Publishers Weekly *
fine, twisting mystery -- John Williams * Mail On Sunday *
A sophisticated and elegantly entertaining shard-sharp slice of Nordic noir that will be surely be devoured by aficionados of Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell -- Joanne Owen * Lovereading *
I am sure that UK readers will enjoy meeting one of the central Norwegian crime writers of the last forty years in one of his best books -- Gunnar Staalesen * Eurolitnetwork *
Author Bio
Jon Michelet was one of the foremost Norwegian writers with a large body of literary work behind him; novels, plays, children's books, crime novels and debate books. He is also renowned in Norway for his strong commitment to a number of political and cultural causes. He has worked as a journalist, publisher, sailor and editor. He twice won the Riverton Prize for Best Norwegian Crime Novel. Sadly Jon passed away in April 2018. Don Bartlett lives in Norfolk and works as a freelance translator of Scandinavian literary fiction. He has translated, or co-translated, Norwegian novels by Lars Saabye Christensen, Roy Jacobsen, Ingvar Ambjornsen, Kjell Ola Dahl, Gunnar Staalesen, Pernille Rygg, and Jo Nesbo.
