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Coffin Number Five

Norwegian title: Kiste nummer fem

Gert Nygårdshaug

For six months following the brutal murder of his wife and daughter, Kripos investigator Skarphedin Olsen has believed he was his grandfather, Fredric Drum. Olsen has hallucinated about bog bodies, hunter dolls, giant moving statues, ancient written languages, and exquisite sauces. Now, he is 'cured.'

When a headless corpse turns up in a doghouse on Oslo's west side, it quickly becomes clear that the special investigator will need all his resources as a declared healthy man. Because soon, another headless body appears. But so does Fredric Drum...