Gard Sveen – författare

Young, lovely Norwegian Agnes Gerner is waging a dangerous and secret fight. Outwardly, she is a devoted Nazi sympathizer engaged to a prominent businessman. In fact, she is part of an underground resistance doing everything to win the war against the Germans. The only hope she has of being reunited with the man she truly loves—who serves under the code name “Pilgrim”—is if the Nazis are defeated. Of course, there’s no guarantee that she’ll be alive when that happens…

Many years later, three sets of remains are found in a popular Oslo forest—two adults and a child. Despite his boss’s call to not spend extra time on the old case, Detective Tommy Bergmann cannot help but dig deeper, especially as he uncovers connections to a more recent murder. As he unravels the secrets of the past, it becomes clear that everything is permissible in war—and that only those who reject love can come out victorious.

Sixteen years ago, rookie cop Tommy Bergmann was on the scene when a teenage girl’s mutilated body was discovered in the woods. Schoolteacher Anders Rask confessed to the murder, along with five others. He was sentenced to live out his days in a mental institution outside of Oslo, and the case appeared closed. That is, until now…

Amid a brutal Norwegian winter, now-detective Bergmann is called to the scene of the assault of a young Lithuanian prostitute. Her injuries bear a shocking resemblance to those of Rask’s victims. Tommy cannot ignore the unsettling questions this crime raises: Is Rask involved or, worse, inspiring a copycat? Or is the real serial killer still out there, roaming the shadowy, frigid streets of Oslo, poised to commit another murder?

Faced with the new attack and Rask’s recently recanted confession, Tommy is forced to reopen the old case that still haunts him and confront the demons of his own grim and complicated history. As he works to untangle the complex web of connections between the past and present, his closed case just might become a cold case—with a truth more chilling than he could have imagined.

Norjan vastarintaliikkeen arvostettu veteraani Carl Oscar Krogh murhataan raa’asti kotonaan. Samaan aikaan lähistöltä löydetään lapsen ja kahden aikuisen hapertuneet luurangot, jotka ovat peräisin toisen maailmansodan ajalta. Luulöydön ja veteraanin murhan välistä yhteyttä ryhtyy selvittämään rikostutkija Tommy Bergmann, jolla itsellään on väkivaltainen menneisyys. Natsimiehityksen vuosina vastarintaliikkeen vakooja Agnes Gerner elää veitsenterällä, sillä yksikin virheliike suistaa hänet varmaan kuolemaan. Eikä Agnes ole ainoa, joka joutuu ylivoimaisten valintojen eteen. Rikosvyyhteä setvivä Bergmann yrittää päästä etenemään valheiden labyrintissa, joka johtaa tutkintaa koko ajan uusiin suuntiin. Kun sodan ensimmäinen uhri on totuus, jäljet on peitettävä tarkasti.Raskaat varjot on saanut paitsi kotimaansa Norjan merkittävimmät jännityskirjallisuudelle jaettavat tunnustukset, myös parhaalle pohjoismaiselle rikosromaanille myönnettävän Lasiavain-palkinnon vuonna 2014.