AUTHOR Horst, Jorn LierTITLE: When It Grows DarkDATE READ 02/11/2018RATING 5/AGENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Crime Fiction / 2017/Sandstone Press/ 160 pgsSERIES/STAND-ALONE #6 in William Wisting FIRST LINES: The bank card was ejected from the TM and Temporarily out of order appeared in big white letters on the screen. CHARACTERS William Wisting/policeman TIME/PLACE: 1983/Norway COMMENTS Loved this one! This is the 6th entry in the series but it is a prequel and can definitely be read first.

Imagine days lit by the sun for a mere six hours – just long enough to tease the senses, certainly insufficient to coax the thermometer above freezing. Welcome to Oslo, at the winter solstice! That context does much to convey the exhaustion felt by William Wisting to the reader. He is a freshly minted police officer assigned to night shift patrol. At home he helps his wife Ingrid with their six month old twins, and cognizant of their tenuous finances, he takes on additional overtime slots. At th...

A prequel to a series of Norwegian police procedurals that I have not read.Thirty-three years ago, in 1983, series protagonist William Wisting is just a humble patrol cop with a young wife, infant twins and too many bills. Trying to catch a habitual car thief, he and his partner make a discovery that may help in the solution to a series of ram raids on banks' night safes. However, before he can do more than this he's shoved to the sidelines to let the big boys tackle the case. So Wisting instead...

When It Grows Dark by Jørn Lier Horst. This is the last book in the William Wisting Mystery series, which has been translated from Norwegian into English.Like the five books before it that I started for #ktbookbingo, I enjoyed it throughly. I have absolutely loved this series; and it’s been worth deviating away from my Book Bingo for. Highly, highly recommend this series of six for anyone that likes crime, mystery and Nordic Noir books. @lierhorst please, please, please keep writing. You have a

Back to where it all started. Stavern 1983. An ambitious young policeman named William Wisting has just become the father of twins. It felt rather strange to read about the baby Line and her brother Thomas; Line, who would become an investigative journalist in her adult life and whose career I have followed through the first five Wisting books translated into English.As a uniformed copper Wisting finds himself edged off a robbery investigation by more experienced officers. Instead, he finds hims...

Unfortunately for me, I've only been able to find a few of the titles that Horst's novels that have been translated into English thus far. I've read them in the order I've been able to find them and am happy to report that this has not diminished my reading enjoyment one iota.When It Grows Dark begins with William Wisting late in his career addressing the latest class of police officers. An unsolved case from Wisting's past comes to his attention again just as he is about to take the podium to s...

The latest book in this excellent series is, in fact, a prequel set in 1983. William Wisting is just a rookie patrol officer, although he already has ambitions to join the CID. He's just recently married here and father of baby twins Thomas and Line - of course, the grown-up Line, a reporter, features prominently in the later-set novels.In the course of this quite short but very exciting novel Wisting manages to solve a case involving a vintage car which was abandoned in a barn in the 1920s. He

What hubris I own to start reading a series at novel #11! But honestly, I believe it just fell into a perfect place to start. Because it was a prequel and harbored back 33 years at the beginning of William Wisting's career. Good development of the young marriage, the baby twins, and especially his (William's) mindset and cognition of job "fit" and possible advancements to doing more what was "up his alley" than the overnight police calls he was endlessly answering. The pranks, the domestics, the...

Can I give 6 stars? 😃 I genuenly enjoy the Wisting stories, the only fault of this book is that it ended. I was loving this story so much that I caught myself thinking about it while cooking.

This story can be described fairly well as an ordinary police investigation. For readers who have engaged with the character William Wisting in previous books, it will be interesting to flash back to early in his career, when he was a regular patrolman with aspirations toward becoming a detective. For me, never having read the other books, this was simply a story set in Norway in the now remote world of 1983, tackling a mystery that goes back even farther in time.Happily, it hits the kinds of po...

What attracts us as readers to a series or for that matter a character? I'm sure every author would love to know the definitive answer to that question. This is a series where I have only read one other book, that being number eight, which I somehow blundered my way into, but found it and the main character Wisting, intriguing. I love these Nordic mysteries, the way the are put together, the slow but thorough way the story developsThis is the newest in the series, but takes us back to the beginn...

Jorn Lier Horst returns with another William Wisting novel that takes the reader into rural Norway and a calmer form of Scandinavian crime thriller. After over three decades as a reputable police officer, Chief Inspector William Wisting is set to address some new recruits at the police academy. He is handed a letter, one that takes him back three decades and sparks a memory of a case that got away. The story then travels back to 1983, where Wisting is a beat cop with a young wife and twin newbor...

This prequel (which is actually #11 in publication order) follows William Wisting as a new police officer who aspires to become a detective. When the initial murder which he reported was shifted to experienced detectives, he begins to investigate a cold case that he comes upon. Initially, he is not authorized to do so, so he must do this in his spare time, even though his wife only recently gave birth to fraternal twins (a boy and a girl). It is rather short, the narration taking only 5 hrs and

The best part about reading books by Jørn Lier Horst is how he manages to get all the small details that you didn't notice at the begining completely change the outcome. He makes all the puzzles fit together in the end. I love books that suprise me, this one definitely did.

Interesting introduction to Wisting....even though it is No. 11 in the series.

Having read some Wisting, and having seen the TV series about the same character, it was wonderful to go back to a young Wisting. Someone facing the challenges of all young people with families of their own - the colleagues they like plus the colleagues who don't like them. The pull of the family and the need for some space from the family.Stir in an exciting story and the heady brew certainly paves the way for the older Wisting.Thoroughly enjoyed and it is possible to read this within any order...

It's a bit strange to start a crime series from novel #11!. This book is a prequel and we watch the young William Wisting in his first steps in his police carrier as a patrol officer.The case involving a vintage car which was abandoned in a barn and the story of a secret mission to Oslo which failed while a large sum of money was lost/stolen and the car’s driver disappeared.It's easy to read and hooked when you started so hope the next books to be as good as these one.

I watched the "Wisting" TV series, which is based on two of Horst's books, and really liked it. I discovered that the first 5 books in the series have not been translated into English, sadly. But this one (#11) is really a prequel, going back to Wisting's early days, bookended briefly by present-day chapters where he uses the old case as instruction for new young police officers.I found the writing a little flat and almost mechanical, perhaps because I've just read a couple of really well writte...

I love the series. This book goes back to how Wisting became started as a detective. LIne and Thomas, the twins were babies and Wisting was still a patrol policeman - and what lead him to becoming a detectiveIt begins when Wisting is preparing to address a new graduating group of police officers. He receives a letter from a woman that was found in a relative's belongings - behind a picture frame. The letter changes how Wisting addresses the group of newpolice officers. He asks them to begin by h...

When It Grows Dark takes us back to the beginning of Wisting's career as an investigator. It is something of a prequel to the other stories and as such is a little bit different.This is Wisting as a somewhat naive young policeman, not yet a detective, though anxious to join their ranks when it is achievable. Married to Ingrid, newly blessed with twins, Thomas and Line, Wisting is an enthusiastic policeman who relishes his job and craves more responsibility. Yet he is somewhat frustrated. He hate...