The Katharina Code

A good Nordic police procedural with well-drawn characters

Choice Magazine

A well-crafted, atmospheric, character-driven thriller- I couldn't put it down!

Alex Dahl, author of The Boy At The Door

Jørn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today

Joan Smith, Sunday Times

Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers

Marcel Berlin, The Times

The Katharina Code is the best and most ingenious novel that Jørn Lier Horst has written thus far

Tvedestrandsposten, Norway

If you haven't already, introduce yourself to Norway's Chief Inspector William Wisting - you'll warm to him even though his patch can get pretty cold

Jon Wise, Sunday Sport

Jørn Lier Horst only gets better and better . . . The Katharina Code is a beautiful crime fiction story

Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway

The Katharina Code vibrates with anticipation all the way to the finish

Dagbladet, Norway

The author has employed literary devices one only rarely finds in a crime novel. And he's succeeded marvellously

Tvedestrandsposten, Norway

With The Katharina Code Jørn Lier Horst again delivers an excellent crime novel with a credible plot . . . All that remains is to declare that Jørn Lier Horst impresses again

Østlands-Posten, Norway

The untangling [of the mystery], the tactics, and the climax keep the suspense at a solid Horst level

Trønder Avisa, Norway

Jørn Lier Horst has truly done it this time . . . Exceptionally well-executed

Tønsbergs Blad, Norway

Horst invites the readers to join the investigation in a credible manner that highlights professional practices [in the police] and generates a new kind of suspense

Bok 365, Norway

Norwegian bestselling author, former policeman Jørn Lier Horst delivers yet another adept story . . . Without excessive complications, unnecessary frills and decorations in his style, [Lier Horst] writes in a bare and sober prose which one still may refer to as masculine. In the style of the genre's founder, Ed McBain

Politiken, Denmark

It's thrilling and well-narrated . . . I look forward to reading the upcoming novels and am excited to see what old cases appear. . . . The author is an expert when it comes to characters, and I'm crazy about William Wisting as well as his family, and colleagues at the Larvik police

Litteratursiden, Denmark

I'm crazy about Jørn Lier Horst's style of writing and crime fiction, where the story and the human character traits are front-and-center and a theme is used as the fulcrum of the story - in this [novel] it's the theme of lies, and what they do to people

Bogblogger.dk, Denmark