Jussi Adler-Olsen interviewed – part two
Jussi Adler-Olsen, Scandinavia’s new bestselling crime writing phenomenon, reveals how he came to be published and gives his views on the Scandinavian fiction trend.
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At first the prisoner scratches at the walls until her fingers bleed. But there is no escaping the room. With no way of measuring time, her days, weeks, months go unrecorded. She vows not to go mad. She will not give her captors the satisfaction. She will die first.
Copenhagen detective Carl Mørck has been taken off homicide to run a newly created department for unsolved crimes. His first case concerns Merete Lynggaard, who vanished five years ago. Everyone says she’s dead. Everyone says it’s a waste of time. He thinks they’re right.
The voice in the dark is distorted, harsh and without mercy. It says the prisoner’s torture will only end when she answers one simple question. It is one she has asked herself a million times:
WHY is this happening?
August 26th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
This book had me gripped: so gripped I even managed to cope with the intricacies of the ultra-dark narrative. As I read I became more and more anxious to discover explanations and motives and to reach the conclusion of the drama. A most exciting and well-told story.