Punishment (What is Mine)

A serial killer is on the loose, abducting and murdering children in a way that confounds the police, before returning the child's body to the mother with a desperately cruel note: You Got What You Deserved. It is a perplexing and terrible case, and Police Superintendent Adam Stubo is in charge of finding the killer. In in a desperate bit to get some answers he recruits legal researcher Johanne Vik, a woman with an extensive understanding of criminal history. So far the killer has abducted three children, but one child has not yet been returned to her mother. Is there a chance she is still alive? And can the pair solve the case in time? A serial killer is on the loose in Norway - a killer of the worst kind. He is abducting children and murdering them - in an undetectable way that confounds the police. He then returns the child's body to the mother with a desperately cruel note: You Got What You Deserved. It is a perplexing and terrible case, and Police Superintendent Yngvar Stubø is the unlucky man in charge of finding the killer before he strikes again. In desperation he decides to recruit legal researcher Inger Johanne Vik, a woman with an extensive knowledge and understanding of criminal history. So far the killer has abducted three children, but one child has not yet been returned to her mother. Is there a chance she is still alive ...? Emilie, ni år, blir borte på vei hjem fra skolen. Tilbake ligger ranselen og en bukett hestehov. Seks dager senere blir lille Kim kidnappet fra sin seng om natten. Han kommer raskt til rette. Død, med en beskjed festet til liket: "Der fikk du som fortjent". Inger Johanne Vik, forsker og småbarnsmor, er like rystet over kidnappingene som resten av Norge. Når førstebetjent i Kripos, Yngvar Stubø, trygler henne om hjelp til å løse saken, nekter hun først. Selv om hun har en fortid i FBI, og både er jurist og psykolog. Men så forsvinner enda et barn. På 20-bussen i Oslo, midt i rushtiden, uten at noen har lagt merke til noe mistenkelig. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS Introducing the JOHANNE VIK series from the reigning queen of Scandinavian crime writing, Anne Holt. 'Holt is Scandinavia's answer to Val McDermid, writing dark and unsettling crime with more than a little wire in its blood.' Evening Standard A serial killer is on the loose - a killer of the worst kind. Abducting children and murdering them in an undetectable way that confounds the police, he then returns the child's body to the mother with a desperately cruel note: You Got What You Deserved