Smoke Screen By Thomas Enger and Jorn Lier Horst

‘Smoke Screen’ is the latest book by Thomas Enger and Jorn Lier Horst.

Oslo, New Year’s Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert. Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Smeplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten ten years earlier … and never found. Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the unsolved case, as public interest heightens, the terror threat is raised, and it becomes clear that Patricia’s disappearance is not all that it seems…

Thomas Enger and Jorn Lier Horst is back with another thrilling book, the second is in the Blix and Ramm series and sees the duo back again trying to solve terrorism attacks in the city of Oslo as well as revisit an old case of a missing child.

I really enjoyed this book and just like the first book in the series called ‘Death Deserved’, ‘Smoke Screen’ also travels at a fast pace as the count is on to solve the mystery as well as save lives. In this book, I felt Emma had a stronger presence in this book, that may have been down the personal tragedy she had encountered and she was quite prominent in scenes, occasionally ahead of Blix with theories and suspects. Whereas Blix I felt had a bit of a back seat in the story, but that didn’t make his character any less interesting or strong in the story.

The different perspectives in the story gave a great slant to the story, whether it was a journalistic approach with Emma’s scenes or the police procedures with Blix and his partner Kovic.

Thomas and Jorn have a wonderful skill of creating the vivid descriptions of the Danish landscape that really sweeps the reader away in this crime thriller.

Racy with plenty of drama that keeps the reader on their toes, ‘Smoke Screen’ is a grim and gritty thriller with many twists and unreliable characters that makes everyone a suspect in this Nordic thriller.

You can buy ‘Smoke Screen’ from Amazon and is available to buy from good bookshops.