Vibeke Olden has never been afraid of the dark. Not until now.**
It was half a year ago when the strange things began to happen. The silent calls from unknown numbers. The car, which always seems to have something wrong with it. The perfume that just disappeared. Vibeke fears she is becoming as crazy as her mother. Or is there really something threatening her?
Seventeen-year-old Angela from Sandefjord is alone in the world.**
She lives as a stripper and prostitute, but she is slowly beginning to rise above it. Then, one day, she disappears.
Police Chief Håkon Haakonsen receives the report that Angela is missing.**
He takes it seriously from the very start. In the search for Angela and what has happened to her, he will be confronted with an inhumanity he never thought possible.
Myriam H. Bjerkli
After previously publishing four other books, Myriam H. Bjerkli made her debut as a crime author in March 2017 with the novel Little Wagtail, a book that was nominated for the Maurits Hansen Prize – New Blood.
In February 2019 “Stella Polaris” was released, which was nominated for the "Silver Knife" – a crime award given annually during the crime festival "Bloody Serious in the Village" in Randaberg.
She was also nominated for the same prize in 2022 for her next novel, “The Fall of the Angel”, and in 2023, she was awarded the prize for “Green-eyed Monster.”
“Green-eyed Monster” was also nominated for the Riverton Prize that same year.
Bjerkli has contributed to several anthologies, journals, and newspapers with interviews, poems, short stories, and essays, and has won various writing competitions. Among her wins were NRK’s Easter Crime Serial competition in 2003, NRK P2’s SMS Poetry competition in 2004, and NRK/Bokprogrammet’s Poetry competition in 2006.
