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1) Killing moon
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 13
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
2) The courier
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero, Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Ase, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
4) Killing moon
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 13
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • This killer will get inside your head. • Brilliant rogue police investigator Harry Hole is back, this time as an outsider assembling his own team to help find a serial killer who is murdering young women in Oslo in the next novel in the internationally best-selling series.
"One of today's most interesting thriller writers." —Lee Child, author of the #1 best-selling Jack...
"One of today's most interesting thriller writers." —Lee Child, author of the #1 best-selling Jack...
7) Faithless
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
When the body of a woman turns up in a dumpster, scalded and wrapped in plastic, Inspector Frank Frølich is shocked to discover that he knows her-and their recent meetings may hold the clue to her murder. As he begins to look deeper into the tragic events surrounding her death, Frølich's colleague Gunnarstranda finds another body, and things take a more sinister turn. With a cold case involving the murder of a young girl in northern Norway casting...
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Language
English
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Description
A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riveting historical Nordic Noir thriller set in interwar and prohibition-era Norway.
Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler's Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there's a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy.
When a woman turns up at the office...
10) The ice swimmer
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand's stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an untrustworthy boyfriend, but it seems both a politician and Norway's security services might be involved in the murder. With her trusted colleagues, Gunnarstranda and Froslashlich, at her side, Lena digs deep into the...
12) The quake
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Norwegian
Description
In 1904 an earthquake shook Oslo. Its epicenter was in the Oslo Rift which runs directly through the Norwegian capital. There are recorded quakes from the rift on a daily basis and geologists cannot be sure, but arguments indicate that people can expect major future earthquakes in this area.
14) Requiem
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Journalist Viljar Gudmundsson is no stranger to chilling stories. So when he receives an anonymous e-mail in which the writer proclaims their intention to execute a woman for her unpunished crimes, he thinks the whole thing is a bad joke. Such things happen only in bad crime novels, after all. But the next day, the body of a woman is found, and Viljar receives a second e-mail with another verdict from this self-proclaimed judge, jury, and executioner....
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Language
English
Description
"An elegant and complex thriller….Harrowingly beautiful."
-New York Times Book Review
"A hugely impressive achievement-ambitious in scope, and skilled in execution."
-Los Angeles Times
"The Redbreast certainly ranks with the best of current American crime fiction."
-Washington Post
No disrespect meant to Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson, but Jo Nesbø, the New York Times bestselling author of The Snowman, is the most exciting Scandinavian...
16) Sister
Author
Language
English
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Description
Suspended from duty, Detective Frølich is working as a private investigator, when his girlfriend's colleague asks for his help with a female asylum seeker, who the authorities are about to deport. She claims to have a sister in Norway, and fears that returning to her home country will mean instant death. Frølich quickly discovers the whereabouts of the young woman's sister, but things become increasingly complex when she denies having a sibling,...
17) The whisperer
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this tense and twisty latest from Norway's maven of crime, time shifts between Inspector Sejer's interrogation of the accused Ragna Reigel and the shocking events that led up to her arrest. How did this lonely, quiet woman come to kill a man--or did she?"--
18) Hell fire
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank camper. The details of the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon are mysterious. There is no sign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jakob Skarre begin a hunt for the killer that will eventually lead them to...
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Description
The best Nord noir ever" (The Observer), this acclaimed series follows a homicide detective tracking an American serial killer hiding in his community, with the help of an FBI agent. When an old case comes back to haunt Wisting, how will he save others when he finds himself suspended and fighting for his reputation, career, and life?
Publisher
Sundance Now
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Norwegian
Description
The best Nord noir ever" (The Observer), this acclaimed series follows a homicide detective tracking an American serial killer hiding in his community, with the help of an FBI agent. When an old case comes back to haunt Wisting, how will he save others when he finds himself suspended and fighting for his reputation, career, and life?
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