num_pages: 200
description: It is the end of the year the Norwegian winter has kicked in darkness looms over Oslo and a murder shocks the otherwise peaceful nation. A prominent politician is found murdered in a rundown apartment building near Oslos downtown. A heroin addict has been seen fleeing the scene of the crime and the police contact his municipal caseworker Markus Jensen for assistance. Reluctant to get involved Jensen decides to find his client before the police can get to him. Jensen a Marxian scholar and anarchist lives by his own set of rules and perspectives on justice and his view of the case quickly collides with the one portrayed by the authorities. With the help of an unlikely cast of new acquaintances Jensen seeks to find the truth behind the murder and his clients disappearance. A quest that may cost him his career and even worse  his life. A Crack in the Faade is a look into a reality that most choose to ignore. A world where drugs violence and corruption thrive. Where the weakest among us cling to life. At times dark the novel also touches on how humanity survives when all hope is lost. Through a story in which loyalty love and despair battle greed and evil the reader is taken on a roller coaster ride that is part crime noir and part philosophical existentialism.
language: English
title: A Crack in the Facade: A Norwegian Noir
publisher: None