The Night Man : The pulse-racing new novel from the No. 1 bestseller now a major BBC4 show Hardback

A SEVERED HEAD ON A STAKE. A BODY IN THE LAKE . . . THE PULSE-RAISING NEW WISTING NOVEL FROM 10 MILLION COPY BESTSELLER JORN LIER HORST, NOW A MAJOR BBC 4 TV SHOW'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMESA SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH_________It happened in the quiet town of Larvik. A severed head displayed on a stake. A crime so dark only one man is capable of solving it: Police Inspector William Wisting. Before long, more bodies are found. Media frenzy sweeps the locals into panic. And when Wisting's investigation leads him to a deadly underground crime ring, he fears the whole town may be in danger. But at the heart of it is just one man: The Night Man. Their elusive leader. The man Wisting must find if he wants to stop the murders. That is, if The Night Man doesn't get to him first . . . _________'It's fascinating to see Horst flesh out his protagonist Wisting at an early stage in his career . . . Nor is it hard to see why the series quickly became so popular' SUNDAY TIMES'Atmospheric.

Demonstrates why he has become so popular . . . Powerful' HERALDPraise for Jorn Lier Horst'Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden's Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas' New York Times'Jorn Lier Horst writes some of the best Scandinavian crime fiction . . . His books are superbly plotted and addictive, the characters wonderfully realized' Yrsa Sigurdardottir 'One of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today' Sunday Times