Eva’s Toast is a crime novel about the boundaries between care and abuse, and about love with fatal consequences.
A series of tragic house fires strikes elderly women in Sandefjord. Everything points to accidents: failing health, forgotten stoves, lives that have slowly grown more vulnerable. But when the neighbor of Police Chief Inspector Håkon Haakonsen also becomes a victim of a fire, it becomes impossible to ignore that something is wrong.
Myriam H. Bjerkli
Ellen Jarli
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.
