William Wisting Mystery
6 primary works
Book 1
The inspiration for thrilling BBC TV show Wisting, from the producers behind Wallander and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A severed left foot in a training shoe washes up on the shore in Stavern. Then another, and another: four left feet in a single week.
Inspector Wisting is an experienced policeman but has never seen anything like this before and has trouble making sense of the case.
Has there been some kind of terrible accident at sea? Or does this indicate the killing and dismembering of multiple victims?
Wisting suspects a link with the unsolved spate of recent disappearances in the area – the dregs of society, for his publicity-hungry superior, but people nonetheless. People who, in Wisting’s eyes, deserve justice.
Meanwhile Wisting’s daughter Line, a journalist, is interviewing murderers recently released from prison. When it emerges that her interviewees have ties to the missing, Wisting cannot help but wonder if there is a larger, more sinister, force at work.
Get your next Scandi crime fix from number one bestselling author Jorn Lier Horst.
Praise for the multi-award-winning William Wisting Mysteries:
'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.' -The Times
'Solid, satisfying police procedurals.' -The Sunday Times
'Plotting reigns supreme.' -Financial Times
'Gripping and well executed.' -The Herald
'Immensely impressive.' -Barry Forshaw
'A masterpiece of storytelling.' -Lin Anderson
Book 2
The inspiration for thrilling BBC TV show Wisting, from the producers behind Wallander and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
William Wisting has encountered grotesque murders before.
Nonetheless, he finds the savagely beaten corpse in a holiday cottage on the Vestfold coast particularly disturbing.
Then the body is stolen.
His daughter Line, finally leaving a dangerous relationship, decides to stay in one of the cottages near the area. It isn’t long before she finds another body.
As Wisting works the case, he finds that the deaths are only the tip of the iceberg in a sophisticated criminal operation involving burglary, drug dealing and money laundering.
There will be more bodies, and a dangerous journey into organised crime for Wisting before the case reaches its breath-taking conclusion.
WINNER The Norwegian Booksellers' Prize
SHORTLISTED The Petrona Prize
Get your next Scandi crime fix from number one bestselling author Jorn Lier Horst.
Praise for the multi-award-winning William Wisting Mysteries:
'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.' -The Times
'Solid, satisfying police procedurals.' -The Sunday Times
'Plotting reigns supreme.' -Financial Times
'Gripping and well executed.' -The Herald
'Immensely impressive.' -Barry Forshaw
'A masterpiece of storytelling.' -Lin Anderson
Book 3
The inspiration for thrilling BBC TV show Wisting, from the producers behind Wallander and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Seventeen years ago, William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway’s most widely publicised criminal cases.
The young Cecilia Linde had been killed, and public outrage demanded a swift response.
Now it is discovered that evidence was planted and the wrong man convicted.
With the convicted man free, Wisting faces jail if he cannot discover the truth about the planted evidence.
He is suspended and the media smell blood.
To discover what really happened he must work alone and undercover, assisted only by his journalist daughter Line.
William Wisting has spent his life hunting criminals, but now it is he who is hunted…
Winner of The Glass Key for best Nordic crime novel
Get your next Scandi crime fix from number one bestselling author Jorn Lier Horst.
Praise for the multi-award-winning William Wisting Mysteries:
'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.' -The Times
'Solid, satisfying police procedurals.' -The Sunday Times
'Plotting reigns supreme.' -Financial Times
'Gripping and well executed.' -The Herald
'Immensely impressive.' -Barry Forshaw
'A masterpiece of storytelling.' -Lin Anderson
Book 4
Only three houses away from Wisting's, a man has been sitting dead in front of his TV for four months. There is no indication anything criminal has taken place. His death doesn't hit the headlines, but something about the case that catches the attention of William Wisting's journalist daughter, Line.
By Jorn Lier Horst, the number one bestselling author
Praise for the William Wisting Mysteries:
'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.' -The Times
'Solid, satisfying police procedurals.' -The Sunday Times
'Plotting reigns supreme' -Financial Times
'Gripping and well executed.' -The Herald
'Immensely impressive.' -Barry Forshaw
'A masterpiece of storytelling.' -Lin Anderson
Book 5
Book 6
The inspiration for thrilling BBC TV show Wisting, from the producers behind Wallander and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Wisting’s first case was already cold when he took it on.
1983. Christmas is approaching and ambitious young police officer William Wisting has just become the father of twins.
Edged off a robbery investigation by more experienced officers, he is soon on a less prestigious case: in a dilapidated barn stands a forgotten, bullet-riddled car.
Tasked with finding out how long the car has been there and what happened to the driver, young Wisting has no idea how this case will change his life.
Return to the early career of the brilliant William Wisting – and get to the know the case that made him into the detective he became.
Get your next Scandi crime fix from number one bestselling author Jorn Lier Horst.
Praise for the multi-award-winning William Wisting Mysteries:
'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.' -The Times
'Solid, satisfying police procedurals.' -The Sunday Times
'Plotting reigns supreme.' -Financial Times
'Gripping and well executed.' -The Herald
'Immensely impressive.' -Barry Forshaw
'A masterpiece of storytelling.' -Lin Anderson