Geir Tangen was born in 1970 in Øystese, Norway. He runs Norway's biggest crime book blog - Bokbloggeir.com, with over 170,000 readers - where he's reviewed crime novels and thrillers since 2012. Requiem is Geir Tangen's debut novel, first self-published in January 2016. One month later, after a rave reception, one of Norway's biggest and most prestigious publishers, Gyldendal, pre-empted the rights to Requiem and to Heartbreaker, the next book in the series. Tangen lives in Haugesund, Norway.