The Blue Place: A Novel (Aud Torvingen) - by Nicola Griffith (Paperback)

About the Book

"The first of Nicola Griffith's beloved sapphic crime series, the novel that introduced the fierce and beguiling Aud Torvingen"--

Book Synopsis

"I can't rave enough about The Blue Place. It just slayed me."
--Dennis Lehane

"If Jack Reacher had a sister, she'd be Aud Torvingen . . . he would love her, but he'd be a little scared of her, too."
―Lee Child

Aud Torvingen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the color of cement and the tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway, a land of ice and snow, she now lives in Atlanta, luxuriating in the lush heat and brashness, gliding easily between the worlds of the elegant elite and the criminal underbelly, beautiful and functional as a folded razor.

On an April evening between thunderstorms, Aud turns a corner and collides with a running woman. She catches the scent of clean, rain-wet hair, thinks, Today, you are lucky, and moves on--and behind her a house explodes in a tiger lily of flames. When Aud turns back, the woman is gone.

But the woman, Julia, returns, seeking Aud's protection in a deadly international game of art forgery, drugs, money laundering, and murder. But Aud knows danger. When danger sits opposite and offers you the dice, you should walk away. Danger loads the dice, it cheats. But for Julia, Aud will play--and risk losing herself in that cool blue place where everything slows to crystal clarity and violence is bliss . . .

The first book in Nicola Griffith's beloved Aud trilogy, The Blue Place reshapes the noir suspense novel into something refreshing and excitingly new.

Review Quotes

"Nicola Griffith's Aud Torvingen novels are among the finest, most original crime fiction I've read...I am forever Ms. Griffith's fan."
--Robert Crais

"Aud is a hero we need now more than ever...Griffith has created one of the most intriguing and most unforgettable characters in detective fiction--or really anywhere."
--Ivy Pochoda

"WIthout Aud, it's hard to see how there could have been a Lisbeth Salander."
--Val McDermid

About the Author

Nicola Griffith is a dual UK/US citizen who lives in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of award-winning novels including Spear, Hild, and Ammonite, and has written for Nature, New Scientist, The New York Times, The Guardian, and other publications. She is the founder and cohost of #CripLit, holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, and enjoys a ferocious bout of wheelchair boxing. She is married to the novelist and screenwriter Kelley Eskridge.