Closed for Winter
Jørn Lier Horst
Awarded the Booksellers’ Prize 2011, police investigator Horst convinces with “rock solid procedural crime”, Closed for Winter has sold in 50.000 copies. The William Wisting series now offers 7 volumes.
Autumn fog covers the coastal landscape like a blanket and the cabins gaze with blind windows towards the leaden sea. Ove Bakkerud intends to spend a last, quiet weekend at his summer cottage before closing the place up for winter. But when he arrives he finds the place a shambles, rummaged by burglars. And in the neighbouring cottage: A man who has been mangled to death.
Detective chief inspector William Wisting has seen grotesque killings before. But the desperation he witnesses in Stavern this autumn is new to him. As if someone has everything to win and hardly anything to lose. Therefore he is not very pleased when his daughter Line settles down in a cabin out at the mouth of the fjord. His concern increases as they come across more badly mutilated corpses in the skerries. And dead sparrows start falling out of the sky.