Jessie and Alice have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, and shared a consuming interest in True Crime cases.
When Alice becomes obsessed with an unsolved disappearance case from the 90s – The Sleeping Baby Case – Jessie finds that her friendship with Alice becomes more and more threatening. Alice is very dominant, and Jessie finds it challenging to maintain a normal life.
Can Alice be trusted and is she the friend Jessie thinks she is?
“In the run-of-the-mill spring of Norwegian crime fiction, Mally Marlene emerges as a breath of fresh air, infused with a mix of lewd sexuality and Freudian terror.” 6/6 stars – Ola Hegdal, NRK
“I won’t be surprised if this novel, in a revised form, becomes the basis for a movie or a TV series.” Tarald Aano, Stavanger Aftenblad