The owl always hunts at night

Format:

Book

Title:

The owl always hunts at night

Uniform Title:

Uglen. English

Author:

Bjørk, Samuel author

ISBN:

9780143110408

Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2017.

Physical Description:

356 pages ; 21 cm.

Series title(s):

Holger Munch & Mia Kruger (Series) ;

Number in series:

General Note:

"Originally published in Norwegian under the title Uglen by Vigmostad & Bjørke AS, Bergen [2015]. First published in English [2016] in Great Britain by Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.

Summary:

"The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed." When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons, jumps back on the team and dives headfirst into this case: just in time to decode the clues in a disturbing video of the victim before she was killed, being held prisoner like an animal in a cage. Meanwhile, Munch's daughter, Miriam, meets an enticing stranger at a party -- a passionate animal rights activist who begins to draw her into his world and away from her family. Munch, Kruger, and the team must hunt down the killer before he can strike again in this sophisticated, intricately plotted psychological thriller by the newest phenomenon in international crime fiction"-- Provided by publisher.

Subject(s):

Murder -- Investigation -- Norway -- Oslo -- Fiction.

Police -- Norway -- Oslo -- Fiction.

Oslo (Norway) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Oslo (Norway) -- Fiction.

Norway -- Oslo

Genre:

Detective and mystery stories.

Detective and mystery fiction

Fiction

Thrillers (Fiction)

Mystery fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Added Author:

Barslund, Charlotte

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Summary

The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone , which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed"

When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons, jumps back on the team and dives headfirst into this case: just in time to decode the clues in a disturbing video of the victim before she was killed, being held prisoner like an animal in a cage.

Meanwhile, Munch's daughter, Miriam, meets an enticing stranger at a party--a passionate animal rights activist who begins to draw her into his world and away from her family.

Munch, Kruger, and the team must hunt down the killer before he can strike again in this sophisticated, intricately plotted psychological thriller by the newest phenomenon in international crime fiction.

Author Notes

Samuel Bjørk is the pen name of Norwegian novelist, playwright, and singer/songwriter Frode Sander Øien. Øien wrote his first stageplay at the age of twenty-one and has since written two highly acclaimed novels, released six albums, written five plays, and translated Shakespeare, all in his native Norway. Øien is the author of I'm Traveling Alone . He currently lives and works in Oslo.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In Bjork's he pseudonym of Norwegian novelist Frode Sander Oien) bleak and brutal sequel to 2016's I'm Traveling Alone, a botanist exploring the woodlands around Oslofjord discovers the emaciated corpse of 17-year-old Camilla Green lying naked atop a pile of owl feathers. A pentagram of candles surrounds her, and there's a lily in her mouth. Evidence suggests that Camilla was held captive and tortured for three months prior to her murder. Oslo homicide investigator Holger Munch knows that if he's to catch the killer, he'll need the help of Mia Krüger, a brilliant but broken profiler who's been suspended from duty. Elsewhere, Munch's daughter, Miriam, begins neglecting her child and deceiving her boyfriend in order to spend time with a charismatic animal rights activist. The tension and stakes increase exponentially over the course of this meticulously plotted tale. Some of the killer's motivations are questionable, but the rest of Bjork's character work is excellent and imbues the story with nuance and heft. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Library Journal Review

Six months after they have been reunited in Oslo, Norwegian detective Holger Munch's team is called in when a teenage girl is found dead in the woods starved, naked, and surrounded by trappings of the occult. It is soon discovered that the girl had gone missing months before from the group home where she lived. The home provides the team with a number of suspects, but they can't link anyone to the crime. While the case appears to be floundering, the lives of the detectives are again in upheaval, leading them to keep secrets from their superiors and each other. As they desperately search for clues to where the girl was prior to her discovery, the team's computer genius comes under suspicion when a disreputable acquaintance brings him important evidence. Unfortunately, the plot gets bogged down with countless red herrings and too many coincidences tying the various aspects of the case together. VERDICT Fans of the first book in the series, I'm Traveling Alone, will enjoy getting to see more of the secondary characters, but overall this entry fails to deliver on the promise of the previous title. [See Prepub Alert, 1/8/17.]-Portia Kapraun, Delphi P.L., IN © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.