Scandi Noir – The Boy in the Headlights by Samuel Bjork

Submitted: 10th November 2019

Norway bound for chilly Samuel Bjork

Scandi Noir – The Boy in the Headlights by Samuel Bjork – An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. It’s not an animal however – but a young boy wearing antlers!….Weird but nothing compare to what will follow…

Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. And clues left as if in some deadly game…..

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Scandi Noir - The Boy in the Headlights by Samuel Bjork

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First of all, the boy in the headlights is one drop in this ocean of a novel. It’s not a novel about a missing child, kidnapped boy and he’s certainly not the focus, so take the title with a pinch of salt, open the book and be prepared to be surprised.

Detectives Munch and Krüger have their work cut out here.(work that will be even more fleshed out if you’ve read the earlier novel) This is a story about a very unique team of police investigators who all have a unique talent. Combined, they will hopefully have the mix to solve some really tough cases. This novel has a series of strange killings throughout! The first one is a pretty ballerina found in a remote lake. All very creepy from the off but it’s the scenery and scene setting in and around Oslo with the remoteness and the hinterland that really helps set the atmosphere and pace of the novel to come.

There’s lots of procedural here and lots of inward thinking, investigation processes and characters thinking about what on earth is going on. You really have to read the book before to truly appreciate what the team are coming up with and why.

Holger and Mia are really an odd couple who shouldn’t work but they do – as they find clues at each scene, they find themselves drawn the killer’s game of cat and mouse. There are some really gripping moment and what a tug of war they go through! This isn’t just their present nightmare either but also has stains on their past and future.

The Scandi elements are there – tight team, interesting back stories, and a truly gripping and icy setting. Mountain paths, lakes, the city of Oslo – it’s all here!