The Catalyst Killing (K2 and Patricia series, Band 3)

I woke up with a jolt at two in the morning - as the woman from the Lijord Line was running for her life towards me and the train . . .

1970. Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen, known as K2, witnesses a young woman desperately trying to board a train only to have the doors close before her face. The next time he sees her, she is dead.

K2, haunted by the question of what Marie Morgenstierne was running from that day, heads up the murder investigation. With the help of his precocious assistant Patricia, he quickly discovers that two years earlier Marie's boyfriend, Falko Reinhardt - the charismatic leader of a group of politically active young people - vanished without a trace. His disappearance remained unsolved.

It soon becomes clear that Marie's death is a far more complex case than first imagined, and will act as a catalyst to a dark series of events that will leave K2 and Patricia confronting their most dangerous and explosive investigation yet . . .

Praise for Hans Olav Lahlum's K2 and Patricia series

'Ingenious . . . A Scandinavian crime novel with a difference' Guardian

'A captivating mystery series' Daily Express