Shortlisted for The Riverton Prize (Best Norwegian Crime Novel of the Year)

A young woman is found murdered. Two years earlier, the serial killer Stig Hellum escaped during a prisoner transport. The murder bears his signature, and Anton Brekke knows two things with certainty: Stig Hellum has awakened from the hibernation. And he’s not going to stop by himself.

Texas, 2006. In a few hours, the doomed prisoner Nathan Sudlow shall be executed. For 11 years, he’s been silent. Now he’s telling his story to Father Tom Sullivan.

What is the correlation between Stig Hellum and Nathan Sudlow’s devastating account? Anton Brekke gets responsibility for the ongoing murder investigation, and he is immediately confronted with the only thing he really believes in: evil.

447 pages

Rights

Czech Republic: Omega/Knihy Dobrovský
Denmark: People’s
Finland: Harper Collins Nordic
Germany: Goldmann
Norway: Bonnier Norsk
Sweden: Harper Collins Nordic

REVIEWS

“Fjell writes very vividly, his plot is complex and full of twists and turns. He always keeps the tension boiling and in the end everything comes perfect together. Scandinavian crime fiction work of art.”
NDR Kultur / DE

Hide and Seek is a top-class Scandinavian thriller and will undoubtedly make author Jan-Erik Fjell well-known in Germany as well. The fast-paced, extremely exciting plot is so cleverly constructed that you don’t want to put the novel down.”
Krimi-Couch.de / DE

“The thriller sensation of the Year!”
mimatis_Buecherkiste / DE

Hide and Seek is greatly well written, very exciting and entertaining. Hide and Seek is the best novel by Jan-Erik Fjell’s pen so far, and it was really hard to put it away.”
Tvedestrandsposten / NO

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