Mystery and Crime · Hardback

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The Blue Child is an original Oslo-crime, where we are taken 100 years back in time to the working class areas around the Aker river, and the hard life working in the factories there. Police Inspector Mikael Wulf has placed his mother in a closed care facility. She suffers from Alzheimers and keeps talking about the blue child. In her room Mikael finds a drop of blood on her pillow from the former patient. Mikael has access to the morgue at Ullevål Hospital, an there he finds the patient and discovers a cruel murder method.

Mikael has to solve two mysteries from his mothers`room: The murder of the former patient and the truth about The Blue Child. Eirik Huseby Sæther is a police officer with long experience from the Oslo Crime Guard. His writing is original, hushed and with good insight.

Material available

  • ✓ Synopsis & author CV
  • ✓ Full manuscript (Norwegian)
  • ✓ Sample translation on request

Original publisher

Cappelen Damm

Publication

2017

Length

256 pages

Format

Hardback

Genre

Mystery and Crime

Series

Mikael Wulf

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