This pursuit of serial killers is set in Norway. It is a story designed to keep you reading and the challenge is to decide which character will turn out to be the much sought after 'other man'. The revelation as to who he is comes gradually to keep readers on edge. The atmosphere is well created,the problems of merging police forces topical and the characters are all credible. The story starts with the accompanied release of a serial character who has offered to identify the burial place of his final victim. It does not work out as planned. The only questionmark over the caste is the role of Line who is employed to create a documentary of these events in which her father is a senior detective. It is unlikely to have been allowed. The book is well written and well translated.

The Inner Darkness is the latest book by Jorn Lier Horst featuring his very popular creation William Wisting and his Cold Case crew. Jorn Lier Horst is a former Senior Investigating Officer in the Norwegian Police Force and a multi award winning author .The ageing Wiston is very much like a Norwegian version of Wallender in his later years without the psychiatric issues.
In this book serial killer Thomas Kerr tells police that he'll show them the resting place of his last victim to make amends and more selfishly hoping that this will get him transferred to a better prison. Kerr has an escort of police guarding him as well as his lawyer Wisting,Wisting's daughter Line filming events and other members of the Cold Case squad yet still manages to escape and injure several police personnel who seemingly walk into an ambush. Wisting suspects,not for the first time as series regulars will know,that colleague Adrian Stiller has his own agenda and might not have been quite as surprised by events as he claims .With Kerr gone the search begins and pretty soon another young woman is killed using his trademark M.O.
As is usual in this series Wisting proceeds slowly,persistently and methodically while still managing to get into trouble with his nemesis in Internal Affairs. This book appeared to me to be a bit different to others in the series,modern policing technology plays a much more prominent role that we're used to and more doors and windows get kicked in in than possibly in every other Wisting book combined. There's also a good fight scene in this book which is a novelty in a Wisting book, .
I'm a big fan of Wisting,both in the original series and the Cold Case books. The really good news is that these are billed as a Quartet so there's one more to come. I look forward to that but hope that Jorn Lier Horst is kinder to Wisting than Henning Mankell was to Wallender .

Thanks to Jorn Horst Lier, Penguin UK-Michael Joseph and Netgalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.

A fast paced thriller finds chief inspector Wisting facing the blog search me when a notorious serial killer escapes. Wisting is avoiding internal affairs while his journalist daughter searches for the truth putting her and her child in grave danger.

Serial killer Thomas Kerr has been in prison for 4 years but is now willing to co-operate with the police. Chief Inspector William Wisting is listening but has his worries when Kerr is allowed out of prison to show them where his final body is buried.
Kerr escapes and gets away and then another murder is carried out in the same manner as Kerr's victims.. But this murder took place before the escape.
Who is "the other man" and what will happen when the two men meet.

That title is spot on! There's some very deep and inner darkness here. Someone has killed several women. Their bodies dumped around Oslo. The police take a man from prison to a crime scene as we've often seen them do with criminals who have dumped bodies. Just as he's in the middle of a very remote part of the forest where some of these bodies have been found, he goes on the run. In a dark wood, this is a CAT and MOUSE game worthy of the most thrilling kind. It's very atmospheric and evocative. a chase of this magnitude in a Norwegian wood is a mix of chills and thrills ramped up to the highest level.

Part of the Cold Case Quartet and it's a very worthy addition to the series. Nordic Noir at its best.