The Mia and Munch Series
When we first meet the brilliant police investigator Mia Krüger, she has retreated to a small island out in a Norwegian fjord, determined on taking her own life. Ten years have passed since Mia’s twin sister Sigrid died of a heroin overdose and Mia has decided to kill herself in order to be reunited with her sister. Mia and Sigrid were adopted at birth and raised by caring parents, but their lives took dramatically different paths – while Sigrid became addicted to heavy drugs, Mia enrolled at the police academy and was handpicked by veteran investigator Holger Munch for his special homicide unit.
Holger Munch is 54 years old but feels older. Despite the fact that ten years have passed since their divorce, he cannot get over his ex-wife Marianne. He has a complicated relationship with his daughter Miriam, who sided with her mother during her parents’ divorce. Munch tries to repair his relationship with Miriam by being there for his granddaughter, Marion, who is a ray of sunshine in his increasingly barren life.
Mia and Munch become an inseparable team with a remarkable success rate at clearing up complex crimes. However, when Mia kills a man – the same man whom she blames for her sister’s addiction – everything changes. The man’s death results in a highly publicized internal police investigation that leads to Mia’s suspension and Munch’s demotion. In the wake of tabloid headlines, the special homicide unit is shut down.
Many years later, when Norway is faced with a brutal serial killer, Munch is brought back to head the re-opened homicide unit. The same superiors who once suspended Mia from the police force are ready to do anything to get her, and her unparalleled talent, back. Mia finds new purpose in pursuing the murderer and puts her suicide plans on hold. But when the investigation turns personal, she is once again forced out of the unit and spirals further into her internal darkness.
Over the course of several books, we follow Mia and Munch as they grapple with highly complicated crimes on one hand and their own problems on the other. In the later books, Bjørk takes us back to the very beginning of Mia and Munch’s partnership, offering the reader a deeper look into the backgrounds of this remarkable duo. With rich character portraits, sophisticated plotlines, and breathtaking suspense, Bjørk has created a Scandinavian crime series that is poised to become a new classic.
The sensational series featuring Mia and Munch has been sold to 35 territories and the first book, I’m Traveling Alone, became an instant international bestseller, including reaching #1 on German Der Spiegel’s Bestseller List.
