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2000s – Oslo. A woman is found dead, with strange markings on her body, seemingly mauled by a bear. But there is a darker creature stalking the area…
Medusa
What you need to know before your trail
This is the first in the series of the Oslo Crime files.
In the woods near Oslo, a woman’s body is found and with the state of the body, it’s expected that a bear has maimed his latest victim. But when another woman is found with the same scratches and markings, the investigation takes a new turn. There is another link between these two women and local doctor Axel Glenne is it.
Forensic examinations reveal that both women were in fact murdered and so the net of suspicion tightens around Axel. He knows he is innocent but that his twin brother Brede could well be responsible.
But no one has seen Brede for years and there is no photo of the brothers. In fact he doesn’t seem to even exist…
Travel Guide
Nordmarka – visitoslo.com/nordmarka-forest/
Brr the woods in and around Oslo are not the place to be for there is something in those woods a lot more dangerous than a bear.
Axel Glenne is the local doctor living in Nesodden just across the water from Oslo. He helps people but soon becomes the hunted and his missing mysterious brother the black sheep. And sheep can often be wily creatures dressing in wolves clothing. Axel and Brede are twins, identical twins and the psychology of this is the real landscape of some frightening revelations for all involved.
The first victim Axel meets in North Marka, a site where traces of a bear attack are found. The second victims is one of his patients. The circle is closing in around him.
The landscape is isolating and remote as whilst the city of Oslo is at the centre of the police investigations, the crime scenes are remote cabins and fields in Nordmarka, woods stalked by bears, outcast places and people and a dark dark sky. Guilt, revenge and rage roam here and claim their victims
With the eyes and glare of the figure of Medusa upon them, whose glance can turn people into stone in this unforgiving landscape.
Booktrailer Review
Susan:
The cover chilled me even before I’d picked up this book. I mean Medusa? The dark blue landscape and a lone figure looking out to sea. You can’t hide murder from the stars? Not in this desolate landscape you can’t and with the remoteness of the setting all encompassing, I was keen to read this one with its promises of magical or mythical occurrences.
A unique crime novel for the level of intrigue and back story neatly woven into each and every page. There was something gripping about this from the start and maybe it’s because identical twins and the mention of Medusa started to claw at my mind like the bears hidden in the woods that made me want to open it and start reading.
There’s a lot to say about this novel but nothing that wouldn’t give away the plot or the direction – both of which I didn’t expect. First in a series? Well I’m going to read something set on a beach now before I pluck up the courage to go back into those woods…
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