Norwegian crime is one of my guilty reading pleasures. The start of a new crime series and another new author for me. I tried really hard with this book and after two attempts I did finish it, the plot was unbelievable and ended in the realms of pure fantasy. I had high hopes for this book unfortunately it did not deliver. Even the blurb was misleading. I just hope that other readers of this genre will find more to enjoy than I did.
I would like to thank the author, publisher and Netgalley for the ARC.

I found I Will Miss You Tomorrow rather plodding and tedious and could not get into the book at all

Not one I can recommend

This was quite a strange book but one that, as I finished it and sat back and thought about it, I actually really enjoyed.
It all revolves around disgraced ex- Police Chief Inspector Thorkilde Aske who we learn more about as the book progresses so I am not about to spoil things by explaining him here. Suffice to say he has a troubled past and is still yearning for Frei, a woman he loved and lost. He has spent time in prison and also in a psychiatric hospital. He's not really a well man when first we meet him. But, when he is contacted by relatives of Frei who need his help, he finds that he can't refuse them and so braves the wilds of the weather to travel to a remote area, the last known sighting of Ramus, Frei's cousin who has gone missing. The police rule accidental death whilst out diving but the family can't believe that and know that there must be more to it all.
So, we follow Thorkild as he talks to the people he meets, as he starts his investigation and as he visits the lighthouse where Ramus was staying. And it's at about this time that things start to get a little weird. And you have to take a bit of a leap of faith. Or as I did, just blindly follow the action and hold onto the things that don't quite sit right, and hope that it'll all come out in the wash.
Which it does, eventually. And mostly to my satisfaction. It's one of those books that the ending is so much more than the sum of the journey and the characters! If you get what I mean by that!
Anyway, we got there in the end and by that time too I had warmed to Thorkild. It helped that by then we also knew more about what had happened to him to make him react as he did way back when, and it was easier to understand why he is as he is.
The location, and indeed the weather, played their parts incredibly well in setting the scene, adding to the atmosphere and providing some key plot points. They are so front and centre as to almost be considered to be characters in their own rights!
All in all, a solid series opener which has piqued my interest for more of the same. Hopefully I'll not have to long to wait. My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

I Will Miss You Tomorrow (Thorkild Aske #1) by Norwegian author Heine Bakkeid is a great example of Nordic Noir and is a fabulous start to an exciting new series! This book was a dark, atmospheric thriller. The protagonist, Thorkild Aske, is a deeply troubled man. Damaged (physically, emotionally and psychologically) with a complicated past, he was previously a chief inspector in Internal Affairs. He’s just been released from three years in jail, including time spent in a psychiatric clinic. When approached by the family of a missing person, he’s unable to say no. The missing person, Rasmus, was cousins with Frei, the woman he was in love with. He ventures to the northern part of Norway in search of answers for the family. He’s suffering chronic pain, he’s left by himself to his memories, he’s in an unreliable state of mind which leaves both the reader and himself undecided on whether he’s crazy or not. The more he digs into the disappearance the more he has to utilise his skills as an experienced investigator and interrogator to make sense of all the pieces of the puzzle...

I received this as an arc from Netgalley thank you to them.
Unfortunately I did not like this one, I couldn’t get into the plot and found it an uncomfortable read. I think some people will like it unfortunately I’m not one of them.

I received an ARC copy of this book fem net galley via Bloomsbury publishing in exchange for an honest review.

I believe this book was written by a fabulist,

Her we have an ex policeman indicted for driving under the influence of drugs and killing someone in an RTA at the same time. improsned for 3 years, released into the care of the community and a psychotherapist who encourages him to work for a couple as a private investigator into their son's disappearance.

It starts off as unbelievable and finishes off as pure fantasy as he discharges himself from hospital, just out of intensive care, having escaped the ward to attend a post mortem of the person he is meant to have murdered. Then in this tenuous state of health he goes diving to try and solve the mystery of the disappearance of 2 policeman, one woman and one man who has the woman's arm attached to his body by plastic tags.

I am sorry if you are confused by this review it is simply a reflection of the confusion i had reading this spectacular rubbish. If i could i would give this no stars. Suffice it to say this is the last books i will read by this author

This book is utterly tedious not to mention difficult to fathom what it is about. Perhaps better in Norwegian.

Thanks Netgalley and the Publisher. I like crime books written by Norweign authors but I can honestly say that this was not the best I have read.

I had a really hard time with this book. I couldn't get into it. I was confused about a number of things. I just finally gave up and stopped reading.

You have lost everything so how do you start over? Thorkild Aske was a well-respected police officer until he was involved in a car accident and someone died. Now he has just gotten out of prison and needs to find a job but he doesn't know what else he can do. He has been given a chance to help someone but he knows that it will cost him in the end. He had offered to help Anniken to look for her missing son Norway but he has no idea if he will find anything. Will he be able to find the missing son and bring peace to the parents or will he find something even worse? Will he be able to put the past behind him now and find the peace that he deserves? A great read. Thorkild is a good man that didn't deserve what happened to him and I hope that he does find what he is looking for. I was lucky enough to receive a copy via Netgalley & the publishing house a copy in exchange for my honest review.

I'm not a swimmer and tend to keep away from deep water generally. So if you are the same prepare for a watery ride in this thriller, a first crime novel by this Norweigan author more well known for vampire tales. There is a touch of the macabre about a lot of the details of dead bodies in the book and very graphic autopsy scenes.
I struggled to get into the plot and as to whether I felt sympathetic for the main character Thorkild Aske, who is fresh out of prison. He's an ex policeman, who had worked on a Unit investigating police corruption (Line of Duty in the snow perhaps!) He had met a young law student and become attracted to her and had been driving a car, high on drugs when he was involved in a road traffic accident in which Frei (that law student),was discovered to be the girlfriend of the policeman Aske had been investigating was killed.
He's struggling back outside the prison. Little hope of a job and recovering from drug addiction and mental health problems. I liked the discussions with Aske's friend and doctor Ulf. He also constantly thinks of the girl he killed. He's lonely, struggling with his health and often seems quite suicidal.
Then he is set a task to discover why the son of friends (also a cousin of Frei) has disappeared, it leads him to an isolated part of the country where the sea is full of storms and a lighthouse mysteriously used as a nightclub/conference centre hovers over the whole place. As he starts to look around, a mysterious woman's body rises from the sea (without a face) and then even more mysteriously is dragged back into the sea by a person in a diving suit. Is Aske seeing things? Will the local police force believe him when they find out about his past?
The book is atmospheric in parts, but the plot takes some following. Other characters like Aske's sister Liz, mussel farmer Harvey and his wife clairvoyant Merethe add to the undercurrent of mystery with a hint of the supernatural that builds the tension. Not a bad yarn and I am sure there will be more about this character.
It gripped me more than I had expected towards the end and I was surprised by the eventual killer.

Thorkild Aske has just been released from prison and is now looking for a job. Thorkild is an ex – Police chief inspector and he used to work as investigator for Internal Affairs when he killed a woman under the influence of drink and drugs. He is banned from the police for life.
His friend and psychologist Ulf Thorkild persuade him to search for Ramus Moritzen who works as a lighthouse keeper in the Norwegian sea has gone missing without a trace. The police have investigated but, Ramus’ mother is not satisfied with the result. So, he goes North in search of Ramus. In the process of the investigation he realises he is not alone when a body of a woman, with her face eaten half away washes up on the shore.
I am not usually into Scandi noir but, this is an exception. The story was intriguing from the very start and flowed easily. I liked the character of Thorkild. Not the squeaky-clean protagonist that we usually get in a novel like this. First you think is he a bit mad after coming of a psychiatric ward and his never-ending pill popping. This is worth a read. 4 stars from me.

Good story and a good read . I would recommend this book to all my friends. Look forward to her next book

This book was fast paced. Hard to put down. It flowed well and it was very well written. It caught hold of me and had me hooked from the start . I was literally on the edge of my seat reading this book.

A strange and complicated thriller…

The main character of this book, Thorkild Aske, is a damaged and broken man. Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, this disgraced ex-policeman is in a hopeless state. He can only lose himself in drugged dreams of his great love, Frei, who had been killed, in a car crash that he had caused.

At the start of the narrative, he arrives at an employment agency looking for a job. Before he can take up anything that is on offer, he is asked by Frei’s parents to search for her young cousin who has gone missing off a remote part of the Norwegian coast. They want him found, dead or alive. Thorkild feels in the circumstances he can’t refuse their request, that he owes it to them to find the young man.

The main part of the story takes place after he drives up to the area where the missing man was last seen. It turns out he was renovating a deserted lighthouse, on an island off the coast. Thorkild gets taken out to the island, with a bad storm looming, and what follows is a melodrama of dead bodies, drugged hallucinations and more missing people.

Through various flashbacks, the story of Thorkild’s relationship with Frei, his subsequent disgrace and attempted suicide, is revealed. This has left him with a lost reputation and all hope in the future, and now, it seems he will lose his life. With every page, the threats and dangers increase.

This plot is a very complicated one and often difficult to follow. It has obviously been well researched but the final chapters, in an underwater episode, go on far too long, as we slowly move to some sort of solution. The storyline also seems rather improbable. Thorkild himself is not a likeable character, nor particularly are any of the characters that he meets. This presents a problem for the reader in becoming involved in the story. It all ends up being a bit depressing.

Apparently, this is to be the first in the 'Thorkild Aske' thrillers, but it is difficult to see where the author can go from here. To be fair, part of the problem for English readers could be that the setting is not familiar, and the translation at times seems clumsy.


This is a book for those who like their thrillers dark, complicated, and full of damaged people.

Jane

Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review.

Dark, atmospheric and thrilling. Just a few adjectives that I could apply to this book by a new-to-me author. Heine Bakkeid. Our anti-hero in this story is Thorkild Aske, a disgraced former policeman who's disfigured from a bad road accident, hooked on pain medications whilst be filled to the brim with self-hatred and self-disgust. Yet his sense of humour and humanity, despite everything, shine brightly. I thought this was a terrific book by a terrific author ......I'm looking forward to more. Write faster, Mr Bakkeid, write faster!

It was easy to read this book within a couple of days as the plot kept my interest and I wanted to know what would happen next.

A disgraced policeman in Norway is drawn into investigating a mysterious death while at the same time trying to find peace with some ghosts of his own.

While I did enjoy this book I did sometimes find my credulity stretched almost to breaking point. I don't want to write any spoilers but the scene with the psychic lady who had offered to help with a painful shoulder went slightly too far for me and almost broke the spell the book had over me.

Otherwise, a very good read and an excellent example of this genre. Perhaps there will be more about this main character?

I had difficulty with this book for a couple of reasons 1. Injustice and 2. The visions of ghosts or the afterlife. After saying that I did read it quite quickly and seemed to be drawn into it

Scandinavian thriller.
Main protagonist is ex policeman Thorkild Aske who has recently got out of Stavanger prison after killing a girl Frei in an accident whilst under drugs/ alcohol influence.
He is asked to investigate the disappearance of a danish man Rasmus by his parents.
Thorkild travels to Skjellvik and uncovers what happened to Rasmus and who was responsible for his death.
He gets blamed for death of local policemen and his sister helps him get away.
A complicated story, well written and engaging.
Enjoyable although I did struggle with the clairvoyance angle to the story.

This is a somewhat strange read, and the hero, in this case, is a disgraced ex-chief inspectorThorkild Aske, and he is fresh out of prison and still has psychiatric sessions, and he obviously wallows in self-pity in pain from a Road Traffic accident that left the love of his life dead, and he scarred in flesh and mind.. Frei the love of his life leads him up the garden path as she had feelings for another man another cop.but Thorkild will do anything for her.and was her that caused the accident. While he is wallowing in self-pity he gets a phone call and Frei's cousin is missing and the parents have asked for his help in finding him dead or alive as the not knowing is worse than knowing as they would have at least a body to mourn. Thorkild takes on the case and tries to find Rasamus but he is an adult and was going to do up a lighthouse for various options on a remote part of the Norway coast and so Thorkild 's first port of call is to the local cops. Things not always turn up when you want them and Thorkild does not alway's had the patience and also when in pain and can't get an answer he turns to his drugs, antipsychotic drugs, and pain-relieving drugs all taken at once and not what you would call regular doses. Sometimes you feel sorry for Thorkild another time you feel like he needs to get a grip on life, and when in one of his stupor moments the reader has to work out what is real and what isn't. It is quite a complex tale not much in the scenery or character profile, but it was a good read, and would certainly give this author another go, and would like to thank Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Raven Books for giving me the chance to read and review.