Unhinged

"This is a Scandi noir so it’s all the cold and ice and darkness that we like so much. I tried to look for police procedurals that have something different about them. Something original. What I find interesting about this one is that it’s written by two people. As a writer, you spend so much time alone it baffles me how any two authors would write a detective story together, but they do. The chapters are very, very short. Thomas Enger’s background is in journalism, Jørn Lier Horst was a cop, and whatever experiences they bring to the table it obviously works because the books are great. Unhinged is the third in the series. Again, I’ve read all of them in order but Unhinged …I don’t want to say much about the plot and spoil it, but it’s certainly the most heartrending of all the books. The ending is particularly good. When you’ve got to that point with the characters, and then that happens… Yes, Emma Ramm is a journalist and Blix is the cop, so it reflects the two authors’ backgrounds. Blix and Ramm aren’t a couple. It’s more an adopted father and daughter relationship."