Book description
A chilling letter. A wrong conviction. One last chance to find the real killer . . . The chilling and heart-pounding new novel from Norwegian superstar Jorn Lier Horst
INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING
'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMES
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1 author picked A Question of Guilt as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Another crime thriller, I loved this book because of the main character, William Wisting, a detective in the Norwegian city of Larvik, who has been brilliantly played in the TV series by Sven Nordin. In this novel, Wisting reopens a cold case after receiving a mysterious letter. The original crime took place twenty years earlier, when a young girl, Tone Vaterland, is killed on her way home from work. Her rejected boyfriend, Danny Momrak, is jailed for the murder, but the letter changes everything.
I loved the way Wisting relentlessly follows the trail of the reopened case. I also loved…
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