The Owl Always Hunts at Night
A Novel
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4.2 • 27 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk’s internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls “tense and smartly constructed”
When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons, jumps back on the team and dives headfirst into this case: just in time to decode the clues in a disturbing video of the victim before she was killed, being held prisoner like an animal in a cage.
Meanwhile, Munch’s daughter, Miriam, meets an enticing stranger at a party—a passionate animal rights activist who begins to draw her into his world and away from her family.
Munch, Kruger, and the team must hunt down the killer before he can strike again in this sophisticated, intricately plotted psychological thriller by the newest phenomenon in international crime fiction.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Bjork's he pseudonym of Norwegian novelist Frode Sander ien) bleak and brutal sequel to 2016's I'm Traveling Alone, a botanist exploring the woodlands around Oslofjord discovers the emaciated corpse of 17-year-old Camilla Green lying naked atop a pile of owl feathers. A pentagram of candles surrounds her, and there's a lily in her mouth. Evidence suggests that Camilla was held captive and tortured for three months prior to her murder. Oslo homicide investigator Holger Munch knows that if he's to catch the killer, he'll need the help of Mia Kr ger, a brilliant but broken profiler who's been suspended from duty. Elsewhere, Munch's daughter, Miriam, begins neglecting her child and deceiving her boyfriend in order to spend time with a charismatic animal rights activist. The tension and stakes increase exponentially over the course of this meticulously plotted tale. Some of the killer's motivations are questionable, but the rest of Bjork's character work is excellent and imbues the story with nuance and heft.
Customer Reviews
A Great Series
“I Travel Alone” was the first in the series. I’m hoping that more translations follow soon. Great characters and plots. Another terrific Scandinavian crime writer.