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The Eye of the Fire

Chief Inspector Aslak Eira returns!

May 1969: A fire breaks out in one of the old brewery houses on the Tromsø docks. The fire quickly spreads, leading to one of the greatest wooden house fires in Scandinavia ever. A day goes by before the fire is brought under control. During the search of the ruins two people are found dead in one of the buildings. The cause of the fire is never established, the two deaths are considered to be accidental and the case is closed.

October 2007: An elderly man is found murdered in a mountain side outside of Tromsø. He is dressed in old-fashioned hiking gear, nobody has reported him missing and his head has been cut off. Chief Inspector Aslak Eira gets the case. Then another fire breaks out in the city, and more murders are committed. Several things point towards a connection to the 1969 fire, and Eira starts digging in the older case. Could the fire in 1969 actually have been caused by an arsonist? Is it possible that the two people who were found dead were murdered?

While the police are working, those who might have valuable information on the case are brought to silence. As Eira struggles to keep the investigation on track, his son falls in love and starts rebelling against his all too caring father. The search for the solution to today’s murders and the fire and the deaths in 1969, soon turns into a race against time.

First published: 2009, Aschehoug Fiction
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