The Blue Place
- 3 Jul 2025
- 9781837264483
- £9.99
- 336 pp
- 129×198mm
- 3 Jul 2025
- 9781837264490
- £7.99
- 336 pp
In a few words
The gripping first instalment in the Aud Torvingen trilogy: a thriller set between Norway and Atlanta, featuring art forgery, drugs, money laundering and murder
In a few words
The gripping first instalment in the Aud Torvingen trilogy: a thriller set between Norway and Atlanta, featuring art forgery, drugs, money laundering and murder
The Blue Place is as good as I've read in years. Such brilliant writing and lyrical attention to detail. Wow!
Alex Gray
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
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
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the book
‘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 . . .
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‘Danger is desperately seductive…’
Ex-cop Aud Torvingen is tough, tall and level-headed. Hailing from the icy landscape of Norway she now works as a private investigator in the heat of Atlanta – able to flit easily between the worlds of elegant luxury and Atlanta’s sleazy underbelly.
But a chance encounter with a woman one stormy night brings unexpected consequences, and Aud risks losing herself amid a deadly mix of forgery, drugs, and murder.
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
The Aud Torvingen novels aren't just noir – they're a journey through the dark heart of noir and out the other side to somewhere hopeful. When the Aud books first came out, it was probably more surprising that the dark journey in question belonged to a queer woman: but even now that the world has begun to catch up with the imagination of Nicola Griffith, these novels are still astonishing. Visceral, unflinching, superbly executed, ultimately optimistic: Aud as in audacious
Francis Spufford
Nicola Griffith
View profileNicola 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.
Nicola Griffith
View profileNicola 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.
