“Compelling, original, and suspenseful. The Katharina Code grabs on at page and never lets go!” 
— KATHY REICHS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Temperance Brennan Bones series 

“Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden's Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas.”
— The New York Times 

“It's impossible to resist the allure of this superbly crisp suspense about the tangled lives of the people left behind when two women go missing. I was immediately drawn into the police procedural and emotionally invested in the layered characters, each trying to crack the code to their own sense of resolution and justice. With ping ponging dialogue and perfectly placed cliffhangers, The Katharina Code amps up the tension as it barrels toward the final shocking reveals. A powerful must read.”
— SAMANTHA M. BAILEY, USA TODAY, Amazon Charts, and #1 national bestselling author of A Friend in the Dark 

“How lucky we are to have mastermind storyteller Jørn Lier Horst on North American shelves. The Katharina Code is icy Nordic noir at its best: twisty, gripping, and with a dark ache of a cold case that won't let its protagonist go.”
— ROZ NAY, bestselling author of The Offing

“Spare prose, elegant structure, and a masterful layering of secrets and suspense. Brilliant!”
— DANIEL KALLA, bestselling author of High Society and The Darkness in the Light

“A well-crafted, atmospheric, character-driven thriller. I couldn't put it down!” 
— ALEX DAHL, author of The Boy at The Door

“Jørn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today.” 
—  The Sunday Times

“Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.” 
— The Times