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Fiction, Thriller / Crime
The polar night brings death
In Spitsbergen’s frigid polar night, a retired chief inspector and a curious young dog sled driver stumble across an international crime – and get much too close to a polar bear.
Shortly after Christmas, the newly retired, Norwegian ex-inspector Trond Lie travels to Spitsbergen, where he is to spend an extended period of time taking care of his four-year-old grandson Bjarne. But life in the small village of Longyearbyen, as well as the arctic chill and prolonged darkness of the lengthy polar nights, take some getting used to. When the young dog sled driver Frida discovers a corpse in the snow, the police from the mainland aren’t able to travel to the site. And so Trond gladly takes over the investigation. He quickly realizes that he is on the trail of a crime of major political significance...
• For readers of Viveca Sten and Anna Ihrén
• Second title to be published in May 2022
Hanne H. Kvandal is the pseudonym of German broadcast journalist and author Hannah Hippe. As Hannah O’Brien, she wrote the successful series about Irish detective Grace O’Malley. Most recently, under her own name, she published through dtv the novel 'Die verlorene Tochter' ('The lost daughter'), which served as the basis for the Oscar-nominated German-Norwegian film 'Zwei Leben' ('Two Lives' 2012). The author lives in Cologne and along the Moselle River.
The polar night brings death
In Spitsbergen’s frigid polar night, a retired chief inspector and a curious young dog sled driver stumble across an international crime – and get much too close to a polar bear.
Shortly after Christmas, the newly retired, Norwegian ex-inspector Trond Lie travels to Spitsbergen, where he is to spend an extended period of time taking care of his four-year-old grandson Bjarne. But life in the small village of Longyearbyen, as well as the arctic chill and prolonged darkness of the lengthy polar nights, take some getting used to. When the young dog sled driver Frida discovers a corpse in the snow, the police from the mainland aren’t able to travel to the site. And so Trond gladly takes over the investigation. He quickly realizes that he is on the trail of a crime of major political significance...
• For readers of Viveca Sten and Anna Ihrén
• Second title to be published in May 2022