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  • 2025
  • Scribner Canada edition.Mass Market

The Katharina code

Jørn Lier Horst, (1970-)

Jørn Lier Horst, (1970-), Anne Bruce, (1952 April 22-)

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Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers written on a piece of paper. Every year on October 10th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code he was never able to crack. And visits the husband he was never able to help. But now Martin Haugen is missing too. And the police force is convinced he's involved in another disappearance of a young woman and asks Wisting to close the net around Martin. But is he playing cat and mouse with a dangerous killer or a grief-stricken husband who cannot lay the past to rest?

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Title Statement The Katharina code / Jørn Lier Horst ; translated from the Norwegian by Anne Bruce.
Series Cold case quartet ;1
Author Horst, Jørn Lier, 1970-
Additional Contributors Horst, Jørn Lier,1970-
Bruce, Anne,1952 April 22-
Publication New York: Scribner,2025.©2018
Edition Scribner Canada edition.Mass Market
Extent of Item 458 pages ;
ISBN 9781668211984 (paperback)
Other Number pr08063792
General Notes "A cold case. A new lead. Fresh hope or a killer's twisted game?"--Cover.
Originally published in hardcover: London : Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018.
Originally published in Norwegian: Oslo : Gyldendal, 2017.
Translation of: Katharina-koden.
Languages Translated from the Norwegian.
Summary Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers written on a piece of paper. Every year on October 10th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code he was never able to crack. And visits the husband he was never able to help. But now Martin Haugen is missing too. And the police force is convinced he's involved in another disappearance of a young woman and asks Wisting to close the net around Martin. But is he playing cat and mouse with a dangerous killer or a grief-stricken husband who cannot lay the past to rest?
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By Topic Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Fiction
Husbands--Fiction
Missing persons--Fiction
Police--Fiction--Norway
By Name Wisting, William
By Genre Detective and mystery fiction
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