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When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren't adding up ... The second instalment in the addictive, atmospheric, award-winning Blix & Ramm series. 'An exercise in literary tag-teaming from two of Norway's biggest crime writers with a bold new take ... a series with potential' Sunday Times 'Grim, gory and filled with plenty of dark twists ... show more There's definitely a Scandinavian chill in the air with this fascinating read' Sun'Alongside Jo Nesbo's Knife, Smoke Screen is this summer's most anticipated read, and it doesn't disappoint' TVedestrandsposten, Norway Oslo, New Year's Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert. Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Semplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten ten years earlier ... and never found. Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the unsolved case, as public interest heightens, the terror threat is raised, and it becomes clear that Patricia's disappearance is not all that it seems... show lessTags
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Very good, I really had no idea what was happening and it was a wild ride! I’m very drawn to books that use setting almost as a character; and this book certainly does. I will say it was a lot sadder than I expected. The villain was really quite villainous, too. I will definitely read more in this series.
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Jorn Lier Horst
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Smoke Screen
- Original title
- Røykteppe
- Original publication date
- 2020-12-18
- People/Characters
- Alexander Blix; Emma Ramm
- Important places
- Oslo, Norway
- Original language
- Norwegian
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 839.8238 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures Other Germanic literatures Danish and Norwegian literatures Norwegian literature Norwegian Bokmål fiction 2000–
- LCC
- PT8952.18 .O77 .R6913 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures Norwegian literature Individual authors or works 2001-
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 90
- Popularity
- 357,550
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.67)
- Languages
- 8 — Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian (Bokmål), Portuguese, Swedish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- ASINs
- 4
