Céline Romand-Monnier Books

Dans la petite ville de Larvik, à deux pas de la maison de l’inspecteur Wisting, un homme mort depuis quatre mois est retrouvé chez lui, devant sa télé allumée. La fille de l’enquêteur, Line, décide d’écrire un article sur ce voisin disparu dans l’indifférence générale en pleine période des fêtes. Pendant ce temps, Wisting apprend la découverte d’un autre cadavre dans une forêt de sapins avec, dans la poche, un papier portant les empreintes d’un tueur en série recherché par le FBI. À quelques jours de Noël, par moins quinze et sous la neige, s’engage une des plus incroyables chasses à l’homme que la Norvège ait connues...

'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Røed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges. Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.

"Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code he was never able to crack and visits the husband he was never able to help. But now Martin Haugen is missing too. As Wisting prepares to investigate another missing person's case he's visited by a detective from Oslo. Adrian Stiller is convinced Martin's involved in another disappearance of a young woman and asks Wisting to close the net around Martin. But is Wisting playing cat and mouse with a dangerous killer or a grief-stricken husband who cannot lay the past to rest?"--Provided by publisher