The inspiration for thrilling BBC TV show Wisting, from the producers behind Wallander and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A severed left foot in a training shoe washes up on the shore in Stavern. Then another, and another: four left feet in a single week.

Inspector Wisting is an experienced policeman but has never seen anything like this before and has trouble making sense of the case.

Has there been some kind of terrible accident at sea? Or does this indicate the killing and dismembering of multiple victims?

Wisting suspects a link with the unsolved spate of recent disappearances in the area – the dregs of society, for his publicity-hungry superior, but people nonetheless. People who, in Wisting’s eyes, deserve justice.

Meanwhile Wisting’s daughter Line, a journalist, is interviewing murderers recently released from prison. When it emerges that her interviewees have ties to the missing, Wisting cannot help but wonder if there is a larger, more sinister, force at work.

Get your next Scandi crime fix from number one bestselling author Jorn Lier Horst.

Praise for the multi-award-winning William Wisting Mysteries:

'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers.' -The Times
'Solid, satisfying police procedurals.' -The Sunday Times
'Plotting reigns supreme.' -Financial Times
'Gripping and well executed.' -The Herald
'Immensely impressive.' -Barry Forshaw
'A masterpiece of storytelling.' -Lin Anderson

Dregs - pocket, Norsk, 2011