The Blue Place
Nicola Griffith
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The gripping first instalment in the Aud Torvingen trilogy: a thriller set between Norway and Atlanta, featuring art forgery, drugs, money laundering and murder
‘Danger is desperately seductive …’
Aud Torvingen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the colour of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway, she now lives in the sticky heat of Atlanta—a security consultant gliding between the city’s elegant elite and its sleazy underbelly.
One night during a thunderstorm Aud collides with a running woman, and to survive the deadly mix of forgery, drugs, and murder that follows, she must risk losing herself to that cool blue place where violence is bliss …
“The Blue Place is as good as I’ve read in years. Such brilliant writing and lyrical attention to detail. Wow!”
Alex Gray
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“If Jack Reacher had a sister, she’d be Aud Torvingen … he would love her but he’d be a little scared of her, too”
Lee Child
“Without Aud Torvingen it’s difficult to see how there could have been a Lisbeth Salander”
Val Mcdermid
“Visceral, unflinching, superbly executed, ultimately optimistic: Aud as in audacious”
Francis Spufford
“Razor sharp”
The New York Times Book Review
Nicola Griffith
Nicola Griffith is the Lambda, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of nine novels, including Hild and Spear. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and is known for both her work on identifying and tracing bias in the literary ecosystem and as a consultant on disability issues. She is a dual US/UK citizen and lives with her wife, fellow writer Kelley Eskridge in Seattle, in a house on the edge of a ravine.