Eleven is Arne Dahl’s eleventh novel, and the first one to follow the completion of the Intercrime decalogy. Thus, it is something very different from what we’re used to – and yet so unmistakably Dahlian. In this modern-day Decamerone, the ten policemen of the Intercrime team have gathered in a countryside manor to “compare notes”, just like they said they would at the end of Eye in the Sky, the last Intercrime installment. During the course of evening, an eleventh character shows up, introducing himself as the host and author Arne Dahl, the omnipotent creator and erasor in this variation of Agatha Christie’s classic Ten Little Indians. Bridging the gap between the author’s two literary personae, the novel blends crime fiction with the literary, the result being a sequence of ten short stories reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges. Doubles, murders, writers – realized fiction and fictionalized realities in the Arnaldian post-romantic vein. In the end, the book sweeps its reader along on an adventure transcending genre, breaching the barriers of life and death, yoking together literature and life – high and low – while the original and the copied come crumbling before our eyes.