Always
- 3 Jul 2025
- 9781837264506
- £12.99
- 528 pp
- 129×198mm
- 3 Jul 2025
- 9781837264513
- £7.99
- 528 pp
In a few words
The final book in the exhilarating, icily brilliant Aud Torvingen trilogy, with sabotage and the film industry in the frame for Aud’s most personal case
In a few words
The final book in the exhilarating, icily brilliant Aud Torvingen trilogy, with sabotage and the film industry in the frame for Aud’s most personal case
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
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
More about
the book
‘No matter how big and fast and strong you are, how heavily armed or well trained, there’s always going to be someone out there who is bigger, faster, or stronger. Always.’
To Aud Torvingen violence is a tool, one to be employed with precision. And it can be taught—but when she teaches a women’s self-defence class in Atlanta the consequences shake her to the core.
To regroup, she travels to Seattle to meet her Norwegian diplomat mother and her mother’s new husband while handling what should be a run-of-the-mill real estate fraud. But her commercial property is being used as a movie set, big money is in play, and someone is sabotaging the production…
More about
the book
‘No matter how big and fast and strong you are, how heavily armed or well trained, there’s always going to be someone out there who is bigger, faster, or stronger. Always.’
Violence is a tool to Aud Torvingen, a tool that can be taught and employed with precision. But Aud isn’t prepared for the deadly consequences when she begins teaching a self-defence class in Atlanta.
Nor is she prepared for what awaits her on a business trip to Seattle. While investigating what appears to be a case of fraud on a movie set, she unearths a plot to sabotage the production.
Aud is left reeling from the repercussions of Atlanta as powerful forces move against her in Seattle, forcing her to confront the prospect that she may need others to survive.
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.
