Strange Crime

Adele finds herself in a strange situation when she finds out that her boyfriend, the love of her life, is a serial killer. Their love story starts like every other, with romantic dates, lovely compliments, and passionate nights. The more time Adele spends with Luke, the more she considers him her soulmate. She believes that he is the one she’d been searching for her whole life. She begins to heal from her traumatic past and accepts the promising present.

Tristan Grieves is an unwashed soul, in a city the colour of gargoyles. Liene, a girl with eyes that drank from every ocean asks for help to find Boomerang - a boy she throws away, but who always returns. Until he vanishes.

Meet Karsten—a little Holden Caulfield, a little Patrick Bateman—in this delirious, darkly comic stream of consciousness from one of Norway’s great literary talents, thrillingly translated by Kari Dickson. For your average fourteen-year-old, it would be a normal, middle-class life...