The Owl Always Hunts at Night

A Novel

By: Samuel Bjork

Narrated by: Laura Paton

Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally best-selling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed".

When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons, jumps back on the team and dives headfirst into this case - just in time to decode the clues in a disturbing video of the victim before she was killed, being held prisoner like an animal in a cage.

Meanwhile, Munch's daughter, Miriam, meets an enticing stranger at a party - a passionate animal rights activist who begins to draw her into his world and away from her family.

Munch, Kruger, and the team must hunt down the killer before he can strike again in this sophisticated, intricately plotted psychological thriller by the newest phenomenon in international crime fiction.

©2015 Samuel Bjork. Translation copyright 2017 by Charlotte Barslund. (P)2017 Penguin Audio

Critic reviews

“Expertly paced and thoughtfully plotted, The Owl Always Hunts at Night will leave you shaken to your core.” (Bustle)

"The tension and stakes increase exponentially over the course of this meticulously plotted tale.... Bjork’s character work is excellent and imbues the story with nuance and heft." (Publisher's Weekly)

English, Please

Loved both books, sorry there aren't more. I stayed on the edge not knowing what to expect. This book as the first was like watching a really, really good movie and not wanting it to end. I kept checking to see how many chapters where left. I knew this was the last in English and didn't want it to end. Most memorable part, read the book . This author reminds me of Lars Kepler novels. I cannot get enough. I think Mr Bjork has a few more books. I need English, please.

More of this series please!

If you like Jussi Adler-Olsen's writing you will like this. Loveable deeply flawed characters, interesting plot.

Captivating second novel

Continuing with the same likable, main characters from I am traveling alone, this novel is well written, fast paced and intriguing. The narration is quite good and the voiceover artist manages to entertain with different voices and credible accents.

main characters become more unlikable

What did you like best about The Owl Always Hunts at Night? What did you like least?

Listened to the first book, I'm Traveling Alone. Overall liked it, so got this book, The Owl Always Hunts at Night. The story line is interesting, strange, but interesting. As the story goes on, I found the two main characters become more and more annoying. Also, as with the first book, the are many characters involved in the story line, but they just disappear at the end. There is no resolution. They're not even mentioned at the end.

Munch and Krüger or Abbot and Costello?

It’s not even an exaggeration, nearly every single question asked in this book (even if the person being asked was paying attention) is met with, “What?” “Huh?” To the point that it began drive me crazy. The filler of the repeated questions, whats and huhs, the debating on answering calls, the repeated calls, and all the whats and huhs that followed account for probably 3 hours of this total runtime. Without it this would be a so-so short story. I had high expectations for Munch and Krüger after the first book, and this follow up shattered all my hopes of loving another detective duo. This was painful. Their personal stuff went from building the character to becoming an annoying distraction. “I’m Traveling Alone” would be a stand out movie. This is nothing but a straight to DVD bargain bin job. Really hope the third installment brings them back to form. But after this I don’t know if my patience is ready to risk it quite yet.

Creepy but really good.

If you could sum up The Owl Always Hunts at Night in three words, what would they be?

Dark, creepy, fascinating.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Mia is fascinating, but there are so many tortured female police officer characters out there now that I think I'd choose Munch.

Which scene was your favorite?

I can't say without giving away some plot.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, because I had it figured out pretty early on so I wasn't compelled to read it all at once.

Any additional comments?

Bjork is becoming one of my favorite new authors.

It was exciting at the end.

I kept wanting to stop all the time but I stopped myself, until finally I got into it and did not want to stop. I had guessed what might happen but still it was very exciting at the end. Now I am so into it that I might read the others.

Not as good as I am Traveling Alone

Liked the book but it wasn't nearly as good as his first in the series. Left me figuring that the ending was just an opening for the next.

Last 2 hours - impossible to stop listening

Although this is part of a series, it can be read alone because enough of the last book is repeated for context. I tire of books where the main characters home lives become part of the mystery (and this is too common so I deal) but rest of this book is good enough to overlook that detail. The book is riddled with complicated characters and twists. The mystery unfolds, almost solving itself instead of through some master mind detective work, and when it starts it's impossible to put down.

Excellent reader!

Laura Paton (sp?) is excellent! The story is also interesting, though there were some unresolved strands, and I still think Marion, Mariana, and Marian or whatever are really dumb names to put into one family...come on.