'Danger is desperately seductive . . .'

Aud Torvingen is a rangy six-footer with eyes the colour of cement and a tendency to hurt people who get in her way. Born in Norway, she now lives in the sticky heat of Atlanta-a security consultant gliding between the city's elegant elite and its sleazy underbelly.

One night during a thunderstorm Aud collides with a running woman, and to survive the deadly mix of forgery, drugs, and murder that follows, she must risk losing herself to that cool blue place where violence is bliss . . .

The Blue Place is as good as I've read in years. Such brilliant writing and lyrical attention to detail. Wow! -- ALEX GRAY
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
Without Aud Torvingen it's difficult to see how there could have been a Lisbeth Salander -- VAL McDERMID
Visceral, unflinching, superbly executed, ultimately optimistic: Aud as in audacious -- FRANCIS SPUFFORD
Razor sharp -- THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Nicola Griffith is the Lambda, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of nine novels, including Hild and Spear. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and is known for both her work on identifying and tracing bias in the literary ecosystem and as a consultant on disability issues. She is a dual US/UK citizen and lives with her wife, fellow writer Kelley Eskridge in Seattle, in a house on the edge of a ravine.