Thomas Enger: Burned

Burned plumets the depths of Oslo’s underbelly, skewers the corridors of dirty politics and nails the fast-moving world of 24-hour news. All this plus a string of extremely brutal murders.

Thomas Enger’s crime debut, is the first volume in a series of six books featuring the crime reporter, Henning Juul. Each book contains a complete crime story, but an overall mystery runs through the books: who killed Henning Juul’s six-year-old son? One book per year is planned for publication over the next six years.

It is said that the epic stories of our time are told in the multiple-plot TV series, and now Thomas Enger brings this narrative style to the crime novel. His series is also a detailed portrait of Oslo’s geography, society and history.

Thomas Enger

The author on his project:
“I like epic thinking, I have always been drawn to complex constructions, intricate plots with an extensive cast, and I like writing books which are entertaining and exciting , while simultaneously making up a greater and even more thrilling story. This was the most enjoyable, but also the most difficult aspect of the project. Each sentence tells you something, not just about one particular book, but about all of them. And I have only just got started …
Enjoy!” Thomas Enger

About the author:
Thomas Enger (b. 1973) previously worked as a journalist. Skinndød is his first crime novel. As well as writing, he also composes music. He lives in Oslo.

Books in the series:
Burned, 2010
Phantom Pain, 2011
Blood Mist, 2012
Killer Ants , 2013
Quicksand, 2014
The Revelation, 2015

About Burned :
A solitary tent on Ekebergsletta contains the body of a half-buried woman. She has been stoned to death, there are marks from lashing across her back and one of her hands has been chopped off.

Two years earlier the Internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son in a fire. Now he is back at work and told to cover the murder. The police soon find a suspect, but Juul senses straightaway that there is more to this case than meets the eye. His hunt for answers brings him to the attention of some very nasty people. When another murder takes place, Juul realises he must discover the truth before more lives are lost, including his own.

Forthcoming books in the series:

Phantom Pain (2011)
Tore Pulli, a violent criminal convicted of murder, collapses and dies during a TV interview before his appeal can be heard. Everyone assumes he must have killed himself, but no one understands why. Pulli had always maintained his innocence, even though there was plenty of evidence against him. Crime reporter Henning Juul believes Tore Pulli was set up and that the real killer is still loose. Shortly afterwards another body with links to Pulli is discovered.

Juul is forced dig up the past to uncover the truth. When he finds evidence connecting Pulli to the death of his own son, Juul realises it is now more important than ever to find the killer. And it has never been more important for him to stay alive.

Mist of Blood (2012)
An Oslo care home: an old woman is brutally killed with her own knitting needles.

Same day: Justice Minister Trine Juul-Osmundsen, Henning Juul’s sister, is accused of sexual harassment by her Permanent Secretary.

The cases trigger a media frenzy. Henning Juul is assigned to cover the knitting needle murder, a killing which grows even more incomprehensible when another woman is murdered with the same weapon. Juul realises that someone is trying to discredit his sister, and gradually it dawns on him that the killings are related to a choice his sister made many years ago.

Juul understands that he is the only one who can save his sister’s political future. Meanwhile the killer has chosen his next victim …