Chameleon People

From the international bestselling author, Hans Olav Lahlum, comes Chameleon People, the fourth murder mystery in the K2 and Patricia series.1972. On a cold March morning the weekend peace is broken when a frantic young cyclist rings on Inspector Kolbjørn 'K2' Kristiansen's doorbell, desperate to speak to the detective.Compelled to help, K2 lets the boy inside, only to discover that he is being pursued by K2's colleagues in the Oslo police. A bloody knife is quickly found in the young man's pocket: a knife that matches the stab wounds of a politician murdered just a few streets away.The evidence seems clear-cut, and the arrest couldn't be easier. But with the suspect's identity unknown, and the boy refusing to speak, K2 finds himself far from closing the case. And then there is the question that K2 can't get out of his head: why would a guilty man travel directly to a police detective from the scene of his own brutal crime?

“"Locked-room mysteries used to be a staple of golden-age crime fiction. Now the Norwegian novelist Hans Olav Lahlum has revived the form. . . A brilliant investigation."”

"Critics have been lining up to praise this remarkable novel from historian, chess-player and politician Hans Olav Lahlum and it's not hard to see why." --Guardian on Human Flies
--Sunday Times on Human Flies

Hans Olav Lahlum is a Norwegian crime author, historian, chess player and politician. The books that make up his crime series, featuring Detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen (known as K2) and his precocious young assistant Patricia, are bestsellers in Norway. Chameleon People is the fourth novel in the series.

The arrest was easy. The evidence seemed clear-cut: the bloody knife was still in the boy's pocket. And yet, there was something bothering Inspector K2. Why would someone guilty of stabbing a politician in the street flee directly to the apartment of the most renowned homicide detective in Oslo?The boy claims he's innocent but then refuses to utter another word, forcing K2 to take the investigation wider, where he soon discovers a plethora of suspects surrounding the case, each with personalities as shifting as the next. The only constant: they all say they didn't do it.But as K2 knows all too well, when everyone says they're innocent, somebody must be lying . . .'Ingenious . . . Scandinavian crime with a difference' Guardian 'This crime in a cold climate deserves a warm welcome' Daily Mail

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