Among the Norwegian writers of black genre Karin Fossum y Jo nesbo We find an author who is a compatriot of both, less well-known in these parts, but equally intense and magnetic in her plots of dark suspense.
Is Unni lindell, closer by generation with Karin Fossum and who is beginning to be given court plus ultra her native Norway thanks to the pull of so many monsters from the northernmost noir.
In his most unknown facet, Unni is well known in Norway for his poetic vein, dazzling readers far removed from the typical "morbid" ones of the noir genre. But that is another creative area that will surely not reach us, more interested in a Norwegian writer for her suspense plots, focused from the dim light of the icy blue of the arctic, than for her lyrical potential.
In its already extensive bibliography, Unni also includes great series that revolve around great investigative protagonists (like, once again, Fossum or Nesbo). And it is these novels that begin to work with word of mouth, the best formula for success.
Unni Lindell's Top 3 Recommended Novels
The honey trap
His first novel published in Spain although it is not the first of this saga but the sixth. A story with which we discover a great author gifted to raise this type of deductive component story without parking its natural connected with the Nordic black genre.
We know Inspector Cato Isaksen who capitalizes on this first case. And also his subordinate Mariah Dale, with whom not everything flows too well because she appears at his police station in the most unexpected way, arousing their misgivings. This is how this professional relationship begins, which will hold many special moments ... A few days before the start of the summer holidays, Patrik, a 7-year-old boy who was coming home alone from school, disappeared. It's hot, everything is quiet.
The ice cream van has made its usual round, the old woman who lives secluded at the end of the street peeks through the window, two girls jump on a trampoline in the neighboring garden. A week later, an illegal immigrant is killed by car. She was the girlfriend of the ice cream van driver, and she worked in the suburb where Patrik disappeared.
The dark angel
The next installment in the series published in Spain… Britt Else Buberg, a 57-year-old woman, is found dead in front of the building where she resided on the seventh floor, on the outskirts of Oslo. A suicide? He was a very lonely person who only kept in touch with an old woman who lived in a nearby residence. At the same time, in a campsite in the southeast of Oslo, and without a trace, the 19-year-old Lilly Rudeck disappears. The police quickly discover that the owner of the campsite lives in the same building as Mrs Buberg ...
But once again Cato Isaksen and his irritating and provocative partner Marian Dahle manage to go beyond appearances and their investigation is complicated when they learn that a 16-year-old girl was raped and murdered on the same campsite in 1972.
White dead
The third installment of the series published in Spain. Kari Helene Bieler, a young woman with overweight problems, is shopping in a bakery when she sees a cupcake fall and the icing sugar fly on top of her.
In that instant he remembers what really happened sixteen years ago, when his little brother Gustav, while still a baby, died. This revelation will confront his parents, John Gustav and Greta, and unleash a spiral of gruesome events, among which are the murders of the director of the Judicial Police, Martin Egge, and those of several innocent women.
The secret surrounding the baby's death allowed a true psychopath to go completely unnoticed for many years leading a double life. Under the cover of these facts, a ruthless murderer is driven to carry out a sadistic revenge. The police will face mysterious crimes that are exceptionally difficult to solve.
The young agent Marian's past becomes part of the case in a very direct way, and her personal and professional relationship with the head of the investigation, Cato Isaksen, will be put to a severe test.
