Into Thin Air
By Orjan Karlsson

Feel the chill and darkness in the air as the untamed wilderness of Norway enters your life.

Blurb

Chief Investigator of Nordland Police, Jakob Weber is drawn into a complex case when a teenaged girl goes missing in Northern Norway, and a second woman disappears from a remote island in similar circumstances … FIRST in a compelling, dark new Nordic Noir series.

When nineteen-year-old Iselin Hanssen disappears during a run in a popular hiking area in Bodø, Northern Norway, suspicion quickly falls on her boyfriend. For investigator Jakob Weber, the case seems clear-cut, almost unexceptional, even though there is some suggestion that Iselin lived parts of her life beneath the radar of both family and friends.

But events take a dramatic turn when another woman disappears in similar circumstances – this time on the island of Røst, hundreds of miles off the coast, in the wild ocean.

Rumours that a killer is on the loose begin to spread, terrifying the local population and leading to wild conspiracies. But then Jakob discovers that this isn’t the first time that young women have vanished without a trace in the region, and it becomes clear that someone is hiding something … and another murderous spree may have just begun…

Review

Islean Hanssen goes missing and naturally the boyfriend is looked upon as being rather suspect in this disappearance in Bodo, Northern Norway. Something more sinister and suspicious is going on when another woman goes missing on the island of Rost. These places to exist and they are quite a distance apart, with the island of Rost being some distance away from the coast, making the net of suspicion cast wider. There’s more guesswork and threads to untangle than you may initially think.

Into Thin Air is twisted and as darkly cold as the title and cover suggest. The bodies stack and people are terrified. There are many moments that you involuntarily gasp at. The further you dive in, the more twisted and spine-tingling creepy it becomes. 

The writing is great and you truly fear for anyone who is innocent whilst reading from the edge of the seat.