Asle Skredderberget
(b. 1972) holds a Masters degree in Business and Finance from the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen and the prestigious Universitá Bocconi in Milan. He has worked as a business journalist, before pursuing a career as a corporate executive. Skredderberget draws on both his journalistic and corporate experience in his writing.
His debut crime novel, Soft as Metal about the weapons industry and financial industry, was shortlisted to the prestigious Riverton Award as Norway´s best crime novel in 2010.
Pain Killer was published in January 2013 to enthusiastic reviews from the crime loving critics and bloggers:
"Cavalli has made the transition from being a well-paid investment analyst to public sector employee. Anyway, he already has enough inherited wealth to ensure his luxurious lifestyle arouses envy in the reader. Digging underneath the surface for details that usually escape notice provides the main thrust of the novel, and he shares this task with his boss, chief investigator Sørensen. The pair make an excellent team. While Cavalli is a very fit, good-looking babe-magnet, bulldog Sørensen is a veteran of the sixties - loud-mouthed and a heavy smoker. Together they're dynamite ... " VG
" For anyone who read and enjoyed the opening novel in the series about Milo Cavalli, there's no risk involved in buying book number two." DN
"Skredderberget's tailor-made super-hero, the Norwegian-Italian financial crime investigator Milo Cavalli, is just as unlikely as he is irresistible. Rich, educated, charming, fond of women as well as kind-hearted.
Here we follow him from Oslo to Rome and then New York, travelling first class all the way, with the murder of 31-year-old Ingrid Tollefsen the matter in hand - she had been a successful researcher with an international pharmaceutical company and the case revolves around, among many other things, legal and illegal drugs, hard-boiled finance, and murky family secrets, with surprises galore. Elegant and entertaining." Bergens Tidende
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