A Murder in Minneapolis

Four days after the murder of Alex Pretti, protesters spell out a distress signal on Minneapolis’s Lake Bde Maka Ska.

By Lisa Henricksson

“Downtown Minneapolis always made me think of cars from Motown in the eighties, trapped in a limbo between the past and the future. Everything clean and neat, conservative and dull, practical and boring…. If you asked someone from London, Paris or New York what he thought of when you mentioned Minneapolis, he would probably say lakes and forests.” —Holger Rudi, Wolf Hour

Not anymore, unfortunately. It’s hard to approach the new thriller from Jo Nesbø, Norway’s all-time best-selling author and king of Nordic noir, with that stereotypically bland vision of the city, given what’s happened there in the past READ ON