Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime · Paperback

Lilies from Jerusalem

Norwegian title: Liljer fra Jerusalem

Gert Nygårdshaug

By the Dead Sea in Israel, a young Palestinian boy receives a very unwelcome visit. A car bomb explodes in a street in Oslo.

Detective Skarphedin Olsen suddenly finds himself in the middle of a case that also involves a missing elderly man in the Old Town, an empty apartment with a pool of congealed blood on the floor, and cryptic books on alchemy. The investigator turns to his nephew, Fredric Drum, for help, drawing us into a fast-paced, fascinating crime mystery. The threads are relentlessly woven together toward a logical and highly surprising conclusion