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Title details for Requiem by Geir Tangen - Available

Requiem

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by Geir Tangen
Paul Norlen
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The first in a superb new series from phenomenal author Geir Tangen, Requiem strikes a deliciously chilling chord.

Journalist Viljar Gudmundsson is no stranger to chilling stories. So when he receives an anonymous email in which the writer proclaims their intention to execute a woman for her unpunished crimes, he thinks the whole thing is a bad joke. Such things happen only in bad crime novels, after all. But the next day, the body of a woman is found, and Viljar receives a second email with another verdict from this self-proclaimed judge, jury, and executioner. Viljar joins forces with investigator Lotte Skeisvoll, who quickly realizes that the murderer is playing a deadly game with them. The clues are all pointing in the same direction, and the murders are strangely familiar ...

  • Creators

  • Series

    Gudmundsson and Skeisvoll

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    July 31, 2018

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781982550738
      • File size: 319853 KB
      • Duration: 11:06:21

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Gerard Doyle uses his soft, elegant voice to narrate this deviously clever mystery by Norwegian mystery blogger Tangen. Doyle breathes life into the two protagonists: Lotte Skeisvoll, a detective heading her first murder investigation, and Viljar Ravn Gudnundsson, a burned-out journalist who is still traumatized by a story gone horribly wrong. A sadistic murderer is choosing victims on a daily basis, and the murders are following a familiar pattern--that of an unpublished crime novel. Doyle's genteel rendering belies the underlying horror of the mystery as it unfolds. Tangen is an exciting new voice in the ever popular Nordic noir genre. D.G.P. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 21, 2018
      Pedestrian prose and overly familiar situations undercut this twisted tale of revenge, the first novel from Tangen, a Norwegian crime book blogger. In 2014, jaded journalist Viljar Ravn Gudmundsson (an Icelander working for the Haugesund, Norway, newspaper) receives a series of emails describing murders that copycat lurid scenes in well-known Nordic crime novels. Viljar helps Chief Insp. Lotte Skeisvoll, who has the requisite family problem to distract her (a sister with a drinking problem), investigate the serial killings, with mostly unwanted contributions from grouchy, old-fashioned Kripos detective Olav Scheldrup Hansen. The main narrative alternates with short, creepy peeks into the psychopathic killer’s warped brain and excerpts of the four-year-old backstory of Viljar’s big scoop and a bad mistake that caused his fall from journalistic fame and his consequent psychological deterioration. Scandinavian noir fans have seen all of this before.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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