The Anchorbone
In the half-built shell of an Oslo apartment tower, a property developer is found posed at his desk, reviewing drawings he will never finish. His bones are gone. In their place: steel rebar, set in concrete, cured to the load specifications of a building that was never built.
Detective Inga Storm is on her last warning at the Oslo Police District, drinking too much, sleeping in the kitchen of an apartment that belonged to a father who killed himself when she was twelve. The case is hers because no one else can read what has been done.
A councilwoman is the second figure. An engineer is the third. As the bodies accumulate in the architecture of an unbuilt tower, Inga begins to see what the killer is making — and to recognise the column where her father, dead for twenty-seven years, has been waiting to take his place.
‘He has decided, in the way of a man who has been alone for fourteen years, that the daughter will do.’
B-format paperback · 339 pages · ISBN 978-82-999-9999-5 · Vinterhus, Oslo
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