The Frozen Woman

For readers who miss Steig Larsson’s particular brand of Nordic Noir, this may be their answer. The story centers around retired defense attorney Vilhlem Thygesen, a man who is not popular with the local police. When he finds the body of a woman who has been stabbed to death in his frozen winter garden, the police believe she was trafficking drugs, but after a man from a biker gang that Thygesen once defended is killed in a suspicious accident, the cops want to find a link between the attorney, the frozen woman and the dead biker. This is a story that left me feeling breathless, Michelet is a master

Good story! Looking forward to reading more by this author. Highly recommend!

I really liked Jon's way of telling a story. He made it seem real and his characters were very life like. Vilhelm Thygesen is a former cop and lawyer that was disbarred living off his inherited property discovers a frozen woman on his property. Stribolt and Vagge are the inspectors from Kripos that are the ones interrogating Thygesen. Stribolt wants to arrest him while Vagge, who comes on nasty but isn't, doesn't.

They have a hard time identifying the body of the woman until they put a sketch of her in the paper. This get several balls rolling. It involves a biker group, an artist who likes taking pictures of people on the train, and an oil mogul being blackmailed. More people are killed as a result of this woman's death. Finally people look at the picture in the paper and realize who she's is.

This seems more realistic than some of the other police procedures that I've read. The characters seem to act mote like real live people in my book. I highly recommend this book.

This book was all I hoped for and more. I highly recommend this book to everyone. Loved the writing, loved the characters and loved the story.

For readers looking for your next Nordic Noir book then this is it, fantastic storytelling with rounded believable characters, can't wait to read the next one. Highly recommended.

Sleek, well-constructed thriller cum detective investigation. Good characters, good descriptions of place, more than competent ability to keep his characters visible and recognizable, and referrals to back-stories intriguing and well done (viz. Comme neige). Bikers (not so petty criminals), cops (investigators Stribolt and Vaage), former cops (Vilhelm Thygesen, left-wing lawyer, civilians (the dead woman). The walk-on parts are sudden, moving, and then over. I have bought the previous Thygesen in French because I’m keen to meet Thygesen again soon….