Thomas Enger is a former journalist. He made his debut with the crime novel Burned in 2010, which became an international sensation before publication and marked the first in the bestselling Henning Juul series. Rights to the series have been sold to 31 countries to date. In 2013 Enger published his first book for young adults, a dark fantasy thriller called The Evil Legacy, for which he won the U-prize (best book, Young Adult). Killer Instinct, upon which Inborn is based and which is another Young Adult suspense novel, was published in Norway in 2017 and won the same prestigious prize. Most recently, Thomas has cowritten a thriller with Jørn Lier Horst. Enger also composes music, and he lives in Oslo.

ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Kari Dickson grew up in Edinburgh, Scotland, but spent most of her summers in Norway with grandparents who couldn’t speak English, so spoke Norwegian from an early age. She went on to read Scandinavian Studies at UCL. While working in theatre in London, she was asked to do literal translations of two Ibsen plays, which fuelled her interest in Norwegian literature and led to an MA in Translation at the University of Surrey. Having worked initially as a commercial translator, including some years at the central bank of Norway, she now concentrates solely on literature. Her portfolio includes literary fiction, crime, non-fiction and plays. Her translation of Roslund & Hellström’s Three Seconds won the CWA International Dagger in 2011. Kari currently teaches Norwegian language, literature and translation in the Scandinavian Studies department at the University of Edinburgh.

Copyright

First published in Norwegian as Killerinstinkt, 2017
Copyright © Thomas Enger, 2019
English translation copyright © Kari Dickson, 2019

Thomas Enger has asserted his moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978–1–912374–47–2
eISBN 978–1–912374–48–9

This book has been translated with financial support from NORLA