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The Human Flies
The Human Flies | Hans Olav Lahlum
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Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first it is difficult to imagine who could have wanted him dead. But as Detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen (known as K2) begins to investigate, it seems clear that the murderer could only be one of Olesen's fellow tenants in the building. Soon, with the help of Patricia - a brilliant young woman confined to a wheelchair following a terrible accident - K2 will begin to untangle the web of lies surrounding Olesen's neighbours; each of whom, it seems, had their own reasons for wanting Olesen dead. Their interviews, together with new and perplexing clues, will lead K2 and Patricia to dark events that took place during the Second World War . . . The Human Flies by Hans Olav Lahlum is a gripping, evocative and ingenious mystery - the first in a series featuring K2 and Patricia - which pays homage to the great Agatha Christie and will plunge readers into Norwegian history, and into a world of deceit and betrayal, revenge and the very darkest murder.
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The Human Flies | Hans Olav Lahlum
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Already getting stuck into this one, a locked-room mystery compared to those by Agatha Christie

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Human Flies | Hans Olav Lahlum
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"There are a good many people who at some point in their lives have experienced something so painful and traumatic that they never get over it. They become human flies and spend more or less the rest of their life circling round what happened."
A locked room murder set in 60s Oslo where everyone seems to be a spy or a Nazi. An earnest (bumbling) detective and an unsung genius sidekick. A promising debut. #ireaditravelibecome #norway

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Human Flies | Hans Olav Lahlum
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A Scandinavian crime author with a difference, Lahlum's Christie-like plots and Holmes & Watson-esque detective duo make his novels perfect for fans of golden age crime fiction (like me!). Litsy only has the first book listed but three have now been translated - this, the second, was ingenious!

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