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I'm Travelling Alone Hardcover – 4 January 2016

by Samuel Bjork (Author)

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A six year old girl is found hanging from a tree. Around her neck is an airline tag which says 'I'm travelling alone'.

A special homicide unit in Oslo is re-opened with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. He must convince his erstwhile partner, Mia Kr3ger, an extremely talented but eccentric investigator, to leave the solitary island to which she has retreated in order to take her own life.

When scrutinising the murder files, Mia spots the number One carved into the dead girl's fingernail. She returns to duty to prevent more little girls falling victim to a terrifying, revenge-driven serial killer...

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Publisher : DOUBLEDAY UK; 1st edition (4 January 2016)
Language: : English
Hardcover : 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 0857522507
ISBN-13 : 978-0857522504
Dimensions : 16.2 x 4.1 x 24 cm

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"Terrific . . . Intelligent and gripping . . . May well propel [Bjork] to deserved international fame" (The Times)

"Samuel Bjork’s formidable I’m Travelling Alone is despatched with real élan . . . Mia’s confrontation with both her own demons and a very human one is mesmerising fare" (Independent)

"A compelling novel, with plenty of intrigue and some splendid action sequences" (Guardian)

"Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbo's Harry Hole series and Danish crime drama The Bridge " (Crime Scene)

"Tense, thrilling and genuinely scary *****" (Heat)

"A tense and smartly constructed narrative" (Wall Street Journal)

"The story is exciting, the setting cleverly evoked, the translation excellent . . . Welcome to a new voice." (Literary Review)

"Icy landscapes, mysterious clues, a messed up heroine . . . Nordic noir at its delicious best" (Sarah Hilary, author of Someone Else's Skin)

"If this is a debut novel, then it is something of a literary sensation" (Bergens Tidende (Norway))

"One is tempted to call it a textbook on the modern crime novel. This is how it should be done" (Folkebladet (Denmark))

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A complex and sophisticated Norwegian crime thriller - already a bestseller in Scandinavia

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John Burbidge

Why do they wink so much?

Reviewed in Australia on 30 October 2020

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Is it something they do a lot in Norway, or does the author just like winking, because at tines it happens 3 or 4 times in a single conversation?
A good read, interesting plot, however a bit overplayed on the "flawed but genius protagonist". Good enough to get me to try book two, just hope they stop winking ...

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Dianne Guthrie

Good read.

Reviewed in Australia on 12 October 2019

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Very interesting story but I did not really like the female profiler.
The ending was very satisfactory.

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Wendytoz

Something a little different

Reviewed in Australia on 10 September 2018

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Great read and a bit different to the usual murder mystery.

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Belinda Harvey

Wow

Reviewed in Australia on 11 May 2016

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Every now and then you read a new author who really blows you away.
This book will keep you on edge till the last page . I have pre ordered the next book.

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Stuart Bell

Enthralling

Reviewed in Australia on 6 December 2015

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Top plot with excellent suspense and twists. Great read and not a formula driven novel. Straggly recommend for anybody into this genre.

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Mr Gregory Miller

Crafty thriller

Reviewed in Australia on 2 August 2016

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A new read for me, and I will come back for more. Mia and Holger are a great pairing. Demons, complimentary skills and a shared integrity abound.

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Loved this book

Reviewed in Australia on 23 March 2019

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Loved this book

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Very good read for the price

Reviewed in Australia on 10 November 2015

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Very good read for the price. Loved the relationships between the main characters and how they unfolded throughout the novel

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Lynda Kelly

Way Too Much Repetition

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 April 2018

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As a rule I always enjoys "the Nordics" and this story was good as well BUT there's a lot of needless repetition which just seems to be filling. Maybe he had a wordcount to reach but for me I'd have preferred a shorter book instead.
One phrase in particular was repeated so often that I was going to pack it in but I'd already passed the 50% mark by then so I persevered. If I'd only got in as far as 20% or so, though, I'd have deleted it. It was with reference to Mia, the line about "she found a lozenge in her pocket." I kid you not, we probably had at least a dozen mentions of this. So irritating, I promise you. We also had too much winking (as mentioned by a prior reviewer) and too many people kept on having headaches. One line was repeated twice in the one passage, too-"Let's not waste time working out how much time has passed"....not sure why....more padding, I guess.
He went with American spellings which most of the Nordic translations seem to do. And he used a lot of M names-we have Miriam, Marianne, Marion, Mia....makes it bloody confusing in places.
I don't do drugs myself but I did like his description from a drug addict featured that one drug was akin to "little smiles in her bloodstream". When it's put like that it sounds sorely tempting !! I had a go at the little puzzle his pal sent him as well and I guessed 1 minute so I went the wrong way in my thinking. Hehehe....I smiled too at the oft-mentioned Farris water. That's included as often as the Swedish authors refer to IKEA in their books....
I did like Mia and Holger's relationship. They're very differing types of people but it works well, nonetheless. Although I wouldn't want to live inside her head.....she's got way too much going on in it. It would drive me round the twist. No wonder he's baffled by her thought processes at times. I was right there with him !! I liked Emilie and Tobias a great deal as well. Both great characters. Another big favourite was Gabriel. He's a smashing guy.
He repeatedly referred to doll's clothes instead of dolls' and got it wrong too with kid's and Ladies with his apostrophes. Then one minute Marion's doll Frankie Stein was female then male. He also wrote nettle and not mettle.
I see the follow-up story has also been translated now and I would like to know how the characters all fare but the repetition I can't bear to face again. I'll put it on my list but if someone refers to it happening again I won't bother buying it. A pity but it's far too distracting and annoying for me.

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Veniceanorak

Too many winkers.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 May 2017

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I enjoyed this and was keen to discover the perpetrator of the murders. The translation wasn't too bad but did anyone else get annoyed at how many times the characters winked at each other. I began to look for it in the end which was a distraction. My Kindle tells me someone winked 35 times in the book! perhaps winking is a Norwegian thing.

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Amanda Sayer

Loved it!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 October 2018

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A six year old girl is found hanging from a tree with a tag around her neck which says ‘I’m travelling alone’. Holger Munch, the police investigator is in charge of reassembling his unit, but he needs his old partner Mia who is very troubled and is living on a solitary island with plans to kill herself.
Mia agrees to help with the case, planning on coming back to the island at a later date, and she finds something that nobody else has, a thin line carved into the girls fingernail which is the number 1. Mia then quickly works out that there will be more girls that will die and she must put her own demons to one side and help crack the case.

I have had this on my reading pile for ages and am now left wondering why I didn’t pick it up sooner. This was a truly great read.
The characters are very well developed. I especially really enjoyed learning about Mia and why she was so troubled. I liked all the other characters as well and they all worked well together really well. The book is a little slow to start with at the beginning but then suddenly it picks up pace and you find yourself racing along to get to the end.

I now have downloaded the second book by this author and am really looking forward to reading it.

6 people found this helpful

J Harris

Brilliant book to read!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2017

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I chose to give this book a five star rating because it kept you wondering who did it. I liked reading this book because it was a story you just couldn't put down and was intrigued to find out what happens in the end. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys thrillers with a twist.

10 people found this helpful

JaquiP

Terrific!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2019

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My heart was in my mouth reading the last couple of chapters. Very well plotted, kept me guessing until the conclusion, well written, great characters. Like the team work and closeness of Munch's team. At first, I thought there were too many characters and names and individuals to follow but it all made sense and came together very well at the end. Good stuff. A great crime thriller read. I enjoyed it.

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