Tre timer

TRE SEKUNDER ELLER TRE MINUTER ER EN EVIGHET NÅR DU KONTROLLERER TIDEN SELV. TRE TIMER ER ALTFOR LITE NÅR ANDRE HAR KONTROLLEN. En stille morgen i Stockholm blir førstebetjent Ewert Grens sendt til et likhus der det ligger en død mann for mye, etterlatt blant andre kropper i et låst rom. Samtidig befinner Piet Hoffman seg på et helt annet kontinent. Et siste, farlig oppdrag fører ham gjennom en brennhet ørken og over et frådende hav, i en verden der menneskeliv ikke har noen verdi. Hjemme venter Zofia og guttene. Når Piet kommer hjem, skal familien endelig få fred. Men det er en bedragersk trygghet, for det viser seg at to små gutter vil måtte slåss for å overleve. TRE TIMER ER FORSKJELLEN MELLOM Å DØ OG Å OVERLEVE.

«Anders Roslund and Börje Hellström wrote Three Seconds (2009) and Three Minutes (2016) together. Now Anders Roslund continues the series alone, and he does it brilliantly. /…/ Action and social interest, Swedish everyday life and international crime.»

Roslund’s THREE HOURS has also received fine reviews from the Dutch critics, we are proud to share two of them with you here:

«Roslund has done some thorough research. In this suspenseful novel, he not only tells us how smugglers operate, but how men and women in key positions in various aid organizations and in politics actively facilitate the trafficking of refugees for blood money. /…/ Roslund has given his main characters fascinating backgrounds. /…/ In the prologue, Roslund tells us how he got to know Hellström and why they eventually started writing crime novels as a duo. The reason had much to do with social criticism, according to Roslund, the very core of the Swedish crime novel, and with reviving these strong stories. And Three Hours is a striking example of this.»

De Standaard, Netherlands

«Not only is [Three Hours] a thrilling novel with a strong plot, it is an old school Scandinavian thriller that turns a critical eye to the refugee issue and the new cynicism in society.»

Vrij Nederland, Netherlands