Vidar Sundstøl Bücher

Lance Hansen, Polizist und Ranger rund um den Lake Superior, kann sich nicht erinnern, dass es in der Gegend jemals einen Mordfall gegeben hat. Arglos geht er einem Hinweis auf Wildcamper nach und stößt auf einen jungen Mann, der, nackt und verwirrt, in einer fremden Sprache stammelt. Nicht weit davon liegt ein zweiter - übel zugerichtet und für immer mundtot. Lance Hansen hat norwegische Wurzeln, wie so viele Bewohner am Lake Superior in Minnesota, wo sich im 19. Jahrhundert viele Einwanderer aus Skandinavien ansiedelten. Deshalb merkt er bald, dass es sich bei dem verwirrten Nackten um einen Norweger handelt. Der junge Mann, dessen Freund brutal erschlagen wurde, steht unter Schock. Und Hansen hat ein Problem: Es ist nicht nur der erste Mordfall in der Gegend, dessen Zeuge er geworden ist, er hat am Abend zuvor das Auto seines Bruders in der Nähe des Tatorts gesehen - und schweigt darüber. Statt sich dem Konflikt zu stellen, vergräbt sich Hansen in die Historie der Gegend und stößt am Ende doch noch auf einen weiteren Mordfall - der ein Jahrhundert zurückliegt.

A Norwegian tourist has been found murdered on the shore of Lake Superior--right where an Ojibwe man may have been killed more than one hundred years earlier. Four months later, the official investigation is supposedly over but still not resolved, and U.S. Forest Service officer Lance Hansen, drawn into the mystery by his grisly discovery of the body, is uncovering clues disturbingly close to home. His former father-in-law, Willy Dupree, may hold the key to the century-old murder of Swamper Caribou. And his own brother, Andy, might know more than he's telling--more than he should know--about the recent homicide. The relationship between the brothers takes a dangerous turn as their annual deer hunt becomes a deadly game. Steeped in the rich history of Lake Superior's rugged North Shore, this follow-up to the Riverton Prize-winning The Land of Dreams pursues two tales through a bleak and beautiful landscape haunted by the lives and dreams of its Scandinavian immigrants and Native Americans. Hansen finds himself equally haunted by the complex mysteries that continue to unravel around him.

First published in Norwegian as Djevelens giftering by Juritzen Forlag, Norway, 2015--Title page verso.

It's been a long, dark time since a gruesome discovery drew U.S. Forest Service ranger Lance Hansen into a murder investigation that is now approaching a resolution—although not to his satisfaction. In fact, the mysteries have been multiplying and getting uncomfortably close to home. On the run after a hunting expedition with his brother, Andy, went awry, Lance is haunted by visions of Swamper Caribou, the Ojibwe medicine man whose death a century earlier remains unexplained. Willy Dupree, Lance's former father-in-law, has the ability to interpret dreams—and what he reveals may be key to understanding both deaths, past and present. Reluctantly taking on the role of detective, Lance uncovers troubling connections and grim secrets that will shake him to his very core.In the final installment of his award-winning Minnesota Trilogy, Norwegian crime writer Vidar Sundstøl’s affinity for the northern world of Lake Superior is on full display—as Lance’s search takes him from the wilds of the Boundary Waters to outposts steeped in voyageur history and Ojibwe culture, from the streets of the Twin Cities to the gritty port of Duluth, to the sleepy tourist towns that dot the North Shore—and as the mysteries of love and nature, history and culture merge in a powerful conclusion.

Mroczny thriller ze Skandynawii. W noc letniego przesilenia 1985 roku w norweskiej wiosce Eidsborg przepada bez wieści młoda badaczka folkloru. Trzydzieści lat później w tej samej okolicy ginie studentka Cecilie Wiborg. Główni bohaterowie, prywatny detektyw Max Fjellanger i bibliotekarka uniwersytecka Tirill Vesterli, szukają rozwiązania zagadki tych zaginięć, zgłębiając mroczny mistycyzm i folklor norweskiego Telemarku.