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About Thomas Enger
See more books from this AuthorHenning’s despised former schoolmate, DI Bjarne Brogeland of the Oslo police, assumes it’s an honor killing and goes after Henriette’s lover, cabdriver Mahmoud Marhoni, who obligingly answers his knock on the door by setting fire to his computer and leaping out his apartment window.
Sep 15 2011 | Read Full Review of Burned: A NovelThe latest in the endless series of claimants to Stieg Larsson's throne brings a suitably damaged investigative journalist a new case.
Sep 20 2011 | Read Full Review of Burned: A NovelIn Engerâs plodding crime thriller debut, investigative reporter Henning Juul returns to work two years after an unexplained fire killed his six-year-old son and left him with facial scars and an obsession with smoke detectors.
Aug 29 2011 | Read Full Review of Burned: A NovelInterestingly enough, Burned begins with a flashback to the fire that scarred Henning for life — that caused him to lose his son — which caused his wife to divorce him.
Oct 11 2011 | Read Full Review of Burned: A NovelHis very first case involves him in a gruesome murder mystery where police find a young woman dead in what appears to be an honor killing.
Oct 11 2011 | Read Full Review of Burned: A NovelNot Reviewed: Lack of a review here may mean that the narrative and/or characters of this book did not capture the reviewer's imagination or interest within the first few chapters (or by page 31).
| Read Full Review of Burned: A NovelHenning Juul is quietly dogmatic and stubborn, un-dramatic and beavering away as much by instinct as on clues, while everyone else blithely ignores or overlooks them.
Jul 07 2011 | Read Full Review of Burned: A Novelin particular, an annoying tendency to end chapters with foreshadowing sentences like: “But he is about to find out.” Is Thomas Enger the next big name to hit bookshelves, or just a one-trick writer of summer beach books?
Aug 04 2011 | Read Full Review of Burned: A NovelIn his debut novel, "Burned," Thomas Enger introduces physically scarred and emotionally damaged Juul Henning, an investigative crime reporter for internet newspaper 123News.
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