Mystery and Crime · Hardback

The Nameless Inheritance

Norwegian title: Den Navnløse Arven

Ellen Gustavsen

Nerve-wrecking psycological thriller Warning: A DNA-test can potentially change your life

A June evening in year 2000 a group of youths gather by a tarn outside the city to celebrate the end of middle school and beginning of high school. The energy is high, but when dawn breaks the joy shatters. A girl has been raped, and her revenge ends in a merciless tragedy for everyone involved. It's an incident that causes deep marks.Sixteen years later a doctor at a fertility clinic is brutally murdered. Police detective Lars Lukassen is assigned the case. The police quickly understands that it will be a challenging case to solve, and they soon are deep into an investigation involving Norway's sperm donor system and human lives, and also Lukassens's own history.This is a crime novel in the spirit of Lisa Marklund’s The Polar Circle. The search for identity and the consequences of a public sperm donor system that is unravelling create the framework for the second novel about Lars Lukassen, written by one of our most promising crime authors.

«Well-written, capitvating and believeable ...»RINGERIKES BLAD, six/six stars

«... without a doubt Ellen G. Simensen's best crime novel.»Randaberg24