Beloved Emilie

Beloved Emilie is a compelling police thriller about how lies can both destroy and hold a family together, about family bonds torn apart, and about the darkest corners of society and the human mind.
The book is the sixth in the series about Detective Håkon Haakonsen, for which Myriam H. Bjerkli has received strong reviews and three nominations for the prestigious Sølvkniven award.

One late summer day in Sandefjord, a group of teenagers breaks into a container behind a grocery store. While looking for food to rescue from being unnecessarily discarded, they make a gruesome discovery: a severed head.
Local newspapers report the incident with shock—but no one is more disturbed than Detective Inspector Håkon Haakonsen: he knows the victim.

Frank Skår, widower and father of Emilie Skår—whose fourth birthday turned tragic when her mother died in a car accident.
Now, as Haakonsen prepares to deliver the news that she has also lost her father, he discovers that Emilie, now eighteen, has vanished.

When the terminally ill Dagny learns of her son’s death, she cannot reveal where either Emilie—or the rest of Frank’s body—might be found.