The Quisling Orchid

There was once a maid

who loved a man

with a splinter of her heart;


her soul she gave

to the village she adored


and the blind Jewess

she took to the mountain.


Brigit and her mother Monica are war criminals by blood: despised throughout Norway as the last living relatives of Erik Brenna – the Coward of Fólkvangr – whose act of betrayal led to the loss of two hundred lives.

Sullen and illiterate after a lifetime as a fugitive, Brigit embarks on a quest to bring her father to justice, aided and tormented by a repentant German soldier and a psychotic Nazi hunter. 

Her journey takes her far from home, across Germany and Israel, uncovering a hidden history of war crimes, international conspiracies, and a triangle of forbidden love that begins and ends with the massacre at Fólkvangr.