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Oslo police detective Frank Fr\u00f8lich<\/strong> stops a woman leaving a business he\u2019s surveilling in connection with a series of thefts. He searches her purse and finds drugs. That\u2019s not a major crime in Oslo; she pays a fine and goes home.<\/p>\n The next night, Frank goes to an old friend\u2019s engagement party. His friend introduces him to his fianc\u00e9e \u2013 who turns out to be the very woman Frank arrested the night before.<\/p>\n Shortly thereafter, that same woman is found murdered, naked in a dumpster.<\/p>\n That\u2019s how Faithless<\/a><\/em>, by Kjell Ola Dahl, begins. It\u2019s one of the \u201cOslo Detectives\u201d series, which follows Frank and his older partner, Gunnarstranda (who doesn\u2019t seem to have a first name, or at least I didn\u2019t catch it).<\/p>\n The story was well told, and pretty suspenseful. The translation got clunky now and then, but I\u2019ve become more tolerant of clunkiness since I started translating books myself.<\/p>\n Indeed, the story was so interesting that it wasn\u2019t until the very end that I realized how grim and nihilistic the whole thing had been, right up to the climactic scene, which involves a hand to hand fight in a waste treatment plant. Well, what do I expect from Scandinavian Noir?<\/p>\n I was ready to buy another book in the series, but I accidentally bought a stand-alone by the same author. It appeared to be a thriller about drug dealers and junkies, and I quickly lost heart and just gave it up.<\/p>\n But Faithless <\/em>is a well-done cop thriller, and I can\u2019t disrespect it. Cautions for language, violence, sex\u2026 pretty much everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oslo police detective Frank Fr\u00f8lich stops a woman leaving a business he\u2019s surveilling in connection with a series of thefts. He searches her purse and finds drugs. That\u2019s not a major crime in Oslo; she pays a fine and goes home. The next night, Frank goes to an old friend\u2019s engagement party. His friend introduces … Continue reading ‘Faithless,’ by Kjell Ola Dahl<\/span>