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1) Police
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 10
Language
English
Description
The horrifically disfigured corpse of an Oslo police officer is found at the scene of a homicide whose trail went cold years before. The butchered officer was involved in the first investigation. It is the anniversary of the death. Within months, two more officers are killed the same way: at the scenes of the unsolved murders they investigated. The newest slayings are especially brutal. The media reaction is frenzied. The police are beginning to believe...
Author
Series
Blood on snow volume 1
Language
English
Description
Oslo, 1970s. Olav, an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, "fixing" anyone who causes him trouble. But it's becoming clear to Olav that the more you know about your boss's business, the more your boss might want you fixed yourself, especially if you've fallen in love with his wife.
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Language
English
Description
"In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat--with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a hated colleague who Harry believes is responsible for the murder of his partner. When another woman is reported missing five days later, and her severed finger...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Language
English
Description
1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century. 1999: Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and is lumbered with surveillance...
5) Knife
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 12
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole from The Snowman and The Thirst, is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage -- once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he's ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
On his first day of school, a teacher welcomes Audun to the class by asking him to describe his former life in the country. But there are stories about his family he would prefer to keep to himself, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken father fired three shots into the ceiling. So he refuses to talk and refuses to take off his sunglasses. In his late teens Audun...
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Wilhelmsen's on the case when numbers written in blood are found in isolated locations throughout Oslo, all of which correspond to female, missing foreign immigrants.
9) The son
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel is set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge. Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin, and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction...
11) Beyond the truth
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the Christmas-season murders of four people in the luxurious home of one of Oslo's wealthiest families, Norwegian Police Chief Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen risks everything to identify a mysterious victim and his reason for being among the others.
13) Fantasma
Author
Series
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Determined to prove the innocence of a young man he helped raise, disgraced former cop Harry Hole embarks on an increasingly dangerous investigation linked to Oslo's most virulent street drug.
Cuando Harry Hole se marchó a vivir a Hong Kong creyó que su vida cambiaría para siempre: dejaba atrás su pasado en Oslo y su carrera como detective. Sin embargo, un acontecimiento del todo insospechado le hace regresar una vez más a su ciudad natal: Oleg,...
14) Faithless
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Oslo detectives Gunnarstranda and Frølich are back ... and this time, it's personal... 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...
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In a foster home outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's steely director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk, stabbed in the back with an Ikea kitchen knife--with Olav nowhere to be found--the case goes to maverick investigator Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to chief inspector in the Oslo Police. Could the child be a murderer? As police...
16) The fourth man
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frølich of the Oslo Police saves Elizabeth Faremo from getting inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, Frølich coincidentally runs into her again—but their ensuing affair is no accident. By the time he learns that she is no stranger—but rather the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang—it is already too late. In the middle of one night, Frølich receives...
17) The ice swimmer
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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 Frølich, at her side, Lena digs deep into the case...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident, Arvid Jansen, now divorced and living dangerously, is forced to come to terms with the fact that someone still needs him when his daughter reaches out to him for help.
Arvid Jansen lost his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident, and now his wife, Turid, has divorced him and taken their three daughters. Arvid spends his time drinking, falling into...
Author
Series
Holger Munch and Mia Kruger volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed." When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons,...
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