A fast paced thriller finds chief inspector Wisting facing the blog search me when a notorious serial killer escapes. Wisting is avoiding internal affairs while his journalist daughter searches for the truth putting her and her child in grave danger.

Serial killer Thomas Kerr has been in prison for 4 years but is now willing to co-operate with the police. Chief Inspector William Wisting is listening but has his worries when Kerr is allowed out of prison to show them where his final body is buried.
Kerr escapes and gets away and then another murder is carried out in the same manner as Kerr's victims.. But this murder took place before the escape.
Who is "the other man" and what will happen when the two men meet.

That title is spot on! There's some very deep and inner darkness here. Someone has killed several women. Their bodies dumped around Oslo. The police take a man from prison to a crime scene as we've often seen them do with criminals who have dumped bodies. Just as he's in the middle of a very remote part of the forest where some of these bodies have been found, he goes on the run. In a dark wood, this is a CAT and MOUSE game worthy of the most thrilling kind. It's very atmospheric and evocative. a chase of this magnitude in a Norwegian wood is a mix of chills and thrills ramped up to the highest level.

Part of the Cold Case Quartet and it's a very worthy addition to the series. Nordic Noir at its best.