This is now the 3rd volume in the William Wisting series that I've read and I'm enjoying it more and more. The protagonists are so familiar to me that I actually sympathise with them.
In this book, Wisting is suspended, but not because he messed something up years ago, but because he was the person in charge of the case. It was the newspaper, where his daughter Line works, that made this public. Cecilia Linde disappeared 17 years ago. A perpetrator was found, but after his release he claims that he was imprisoned on false pretences, that evidence had been tampered with. After Wisting's suspension, he sets about going through the old files. He receives support from his friend, the former forensic scientist, and from his daughter. The latter was at a crime scene for a report where a man was beaten to death. Over time, it becomes increasingly clear that this death is connected to Wisting's case. It also became clear that the falsified evidence was made by a police officer. Then another young woman disappears. It's a race against time.
It is written in an incredibly exciting way and kept me guessing until the very end who the culprit was. ( )

It was a very nice book to read. Just like what expected of a Scandinavian thriller. A main character that struggles in his private life, has professional troubles as well.
What I found unbelievable, was that Wisting was able to continue his investigation, even though he was suspended from active duty. To me that diminished the book. But... that doesn't keep me from continuing to read the rest of the series :-) ( )

An interesting twist on the intertwined story idea. I enjoyed the novel. ( )

I thought it was an interesting police procedural, and well-told in the sense that the plot kept advancing. It came across as clumsily written, which perhaps is due to the translation into English. But all in all it was worth a read, I though. ( )

[Dregs] by Jorn Lier Horst (2010, T 2011)
[Closed for Winter] by Jorn Lier Horst (2011, T 2013)
[The Hunting Dogs] by Jorn Lier Horst (2012, T 2014)
[The Caveman] by Jorn Lier Horst (2013, T 2015)

These are four out of the 8 crime novels translated into English, written by Norwegian author Horst, who himself had become a “Head of Investigations” in the law enforcement field before deciding to write full-time.

Horst writes about William Wisting, Chief Inspector in the Criminal Investigations Department of the Larvik Police. The author also writes about Wisting’s daughter Line, an investigative reporter based in Oslo; and the two story lines reliably connect in each book. Wisting reminds me of Wallander without the melancholy.

Horst’s books are excellent police procedurals---thoughtful, intelligent, detailed cerebral stuff without being beefed up throughout with unnecessary gun-waving and thriller bits. Granted, at least two of these books end with a big action splash, which seems over the top in keeping with the rest of the book, but one can appreciate that the detectives solve it just before (and then it’s a race to get to the villain before he kills again). I would speculate that Horst’s own experience keeps his storytelling firmly planted in a more realistic realm. I'm looking forward to the next translation coming out sometime this year. ( )