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Never Safe Again
Mystery and Crime2024 · 288 pp

Never Safe Again

Hanne Gellein

The shadows of the past are about to destroy the lives of Luca and Silje in different, horrific ways. Silje Andersen wakes up in chains in a darkened and foul-smelling basement. How did she end up here, and who wants to hurt her like this? She struggles to get out of her chains, and to freedom, but what chance does she really have? The rest of the world thinks she’s on holiday. The only person paranoid enough to look into it is her best friend Luca Stellander. He, however, is in custody after new information has surfaced regarding an old homicide case. It’s been five years since the leader of Nordic Front was murdered, and a key witness claims to have seen Luca kill him. Luca Stellander has tried in vain to distance himself from his past in the right-wing extremist community. Now the shadows are catching up to him. What really happened that night five years ago in Falstad forest? Never Safe Again is Hanne Gellein's third crime novel featuring the forensic pathologist Silje «... a good intrigue, that's well told.»ADRESSEAVISEN, five/six stars «... Gellein's fiercest thus far.»RANDABERG25, five/six stars

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The One No One Sees
Mystery and Crime2024 · 384 pp

The One No One Sees

Terje Bjøranger

Nazdar Gulli’s family discovers that studying law isn’t all she’s doing at university. She’s also seeing Julio. Soon after this revelation, Nazdar ends up in hospital as an obvious victim of honour-based violence. Police investigator Charlie Robertsen tries to get Nazdar to report her brothers and father for violence and attempted murder. But Nazdar drops the charges, scared of the consequences they could have for both her family and for herself. The investigation is put on ice, but Charlie can’t let the case go. He knows that Nazdar is in danger of being sent out of the country and disappearing, like so many other women who are victims of honour crimes. Can he help her in time? At the same time, a young man calling himself Azad hides with a Kurdish single mother and her daughter in Sweden. Mother and daughter are brutally shot and killed by a criminal gang. Azad wants to avenge them, no matter the cost. Even if it costs him his secret identity. The One No One Sees is a realistic and captivating thriller with deep insight into a highly topical social issue. [...] an engaging and gripping story – written in ice cold and controlled language. Terje Bjøranger is a brilliant author who knows the art of building an intrigue. [...] one of the best and most relevant Norwegian crime novels I've read in a long time.VG - six/six stars [...] frightening, nail-bitingly intense and topical.Randaberg 24 - six/six stars [...] a frightening and extremely exciting thriller.Nettavisen - five/six stars The most important crime novel of the yearTerje Bjøranger has delivered a very good thriller. It’s the most political crime novel of the year. That makes it brave. And important.Stavanger Aftenblad - five/six stars

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Burden of Guilt
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2024 · 448 pp

Burden of Guilt

Hilde S. Palladino

It is a scorching hot summer. The heatwave has lasted for weeks. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is tasked by the police with looking for a middle-aged woman who has disappeared. It turns out that the missing woman had a daughter who disappeared without a trace, eighteen years ago. Bjørk quickly discovers similarities to the double-homicide case in which she made a fatal error three years ago. Where she caused the wrong person to be charged with the brutal murder of two teenage girls. He ended up taking his own life in his cell. Together with her former partner at the National Criminal Investigation Service, Absalon Lund, Bjørk starts investigating the case. The girl who disappeared eighteen years ago may have been the actual perpetrator’s first victim. Bjørk and Absalon are likely hunting a killer who may have been active for two decades. A perpetrator who has become Bjørk’s nemesis. As the search for the missing woman intensifies, yet another young girl disappears from the neighbourhood. Bjørk is convinced that the serial killer is active again. Burden of Guilt is an ambitious and well-written psychological crime novel that serves as a follow-up to H.S. Palladino’s explosive debut. The first book in the series, Hidden Under Snow, was sold to Germany, Sweden and Denmark on publication. «Vibrating and mystified crime where the author keeps the reader in doubt until the last sentence»RANDEBERG 24, six/six stars

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First there was darkness
Mystery and Crime2024 · 288 pp

First there was darkness

Karin Fossum

All that's heard in the silence, is the knife when it's dragged over the steel in long motions. First there was darkness is the fourth book about police detective Eddie Feber. It's early August, and a dry wind is blowing. Ruben Kornell spends the night in an old community centre, hidden behind some chairs. He awakes to the sounds of voices, and overhears a conversation between two men. Ruben has a burning passion for true crime, and he's convinced that the men are planning to commit a crime. He eyes the opportunity to become an important witness in a criminal case. If he can convince the police to take him seriously. Bloody crime with poetic elements«Lean back and let yourself be enveloped by the Fossum universe [...] A surprising, recognisable and magnificent novel by Karin Fossum.»Dagsavisen No one writes crime like Fossum«Her tone of voice and character gallery set her apart from all other Norwegian crime.»Stavanger Aftenblad «Karin Fossum, currently, is our unrivalled Queen of Crime, and she is showing no sign of abdicating.»NRK, five/six stars «Unforgettable crime, which meets all my expectations.»Randaberg24, six/six stars «First there was darkness has several highlights, and is far above what many other Norwegian crime writers publish.»VG

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Mass for a Murderer
Mystery and Crime2024 · 400 pp

Mass for a Murderer

Gard Sveen

A hot Tuesday morning in August, Tom Schrøder is granted his first leave from prison. Three hours accompanied by two officers. He will be be back in the Kongsvinger prison by eleven o’clock. But Schrøder never comes back. He kills one of the prison officers and leaves town with the other. The most dangerous man in the country is on the lam. He is armed, and he has a hostage. The residents of the town are asked to stay indoors and lock their doors in the intense heat of the late summer. Tom Schrøder, a feared criminal since his late teens, was convicted of a brutal double homicide twelve years ago. In recent years, however, he has been a model prisoner and earned a transfer to a low-security prison. In two years, he could have been a free man. He is fifty-two years old. If he’s caught now, he’ll spend the rest of his life behind bars. Why run now? In Sandefjord, Schrøder’s lawyer is on his summer holidays when he receives news of his most infamous client’s escape. By then, several hours have passed since the incident – Tom Schrøder could be anywhere. The lawyer’s greatest fear is that someone in the prison may have told Tom his big secret. Then the worst thing possible happens. And the road to downfall has no end.

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My Friend, Alice
Mystery and Crime2024 · 320 pp

My Friend, Alice

Mally Marlene

Jessie and Alice have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, sharing 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? My Friend Alice is a psychological thriller exploring disturbed human minds and the fatal consequences of them. The storytelling is visual and captivating, and it will for sure make you question yourself along the way. The pieces of the puzzle in this psychological thriller fits perfectly together in the end.5/6 stars - Adresseavisa 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. This psychological thriller is a demonstration of power. 6/6 stars – NRK I won’t be surprised if this novel, in a revised form, becomes the basis for a movie or a TV series.Stavanger Aftenblad

The Shadow Lawyer
Mystery and Crime2024 · 496 pp

The Shadow Lawyer

Eva J. Stensrud

The Shadow Lawyer is a timely and absorbing crime novel, looking back to Iran during Khomeini’s rise to power in 1979, when a Norwegian embassy councillor in Teheran and his Iranian wife are forced to flee, together with several members of her family. Many years later we encounter the refugees again, in Norway 2017, in and outside of an Iranian diaspora community. They are doctors and lawyers now, some of them live with Norwegian partners, others don’t. When Anna, an Iranian member of the community, is found dead in her home, suspicions are raised against the man she once betrayed. Since the case has ties to Iran, a joint investigation is launched, between Asbjørn Skar, the police superintendent at Kripos, the Norwegian National Criminal Investigating Service and investigator Liv Lindemann from PST, the Norwegian Police Security Agency. But should they really be looking at the past to solve this murder mystery? The Shadow Lawyer is an elegant, ambitious and intelligently told thriller that still manages to be eerily realistic.

The Shadow People
Mystery and Crime2024 · 336 pp

The Shadow People

Sigbjørn Mostue

Even Stubberud is on his way into the deep Amazonas rainforest, seeking The Shadow People. A mystical tribe that avoids contact with the rest of the world. With them a dead geologist has hidden maps showing huge riches hidden in the rainforest – information that Russia, the USA, the Venezuelan government and cartels wants their hands on. Even’s task is to find the maps first, and destroy them. Simultaneously, Norway is trying to negotiate a peace treaty between the Venezuelan government and Andrés Palmero, the leader of the opposition. Russia launches a cyber attack on Norway, and the message is clear: Keep out of it. Russia wants Palmero dead. The consequences could be a full-scale war between the superpowers.

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The Mist Murder
Mystery and Crime2024 · 368 pp

The Mist Murder

Hans Olav Lahlum

The Mist Murder has, in the Sherlockian spirit of Hans Olav Lahlum, a subtle plot in a fashionable seventies colour palette with links to a long-unsolved murder. “Firstly, I owe it to you to let you know that I was a national socialist during the war,” said the man sitting in the guest chair in my office. The date is 16 November 1973. In his office in Oslo, private investigator K2 is sought out by a farmer who has travelled all the way from Telemark. The client says that for important personal reasons he needs to clear up the circumstances surrounding his brother’s dramatic death in the late autumn of 1943. The private investigator allows himself to be tempted by this lucrative challenge and travels to Telemark the same evening. There, he stays in the house where his client’s older brother, a front fighter recently returned home, was found shot one misty autumn day thirty years previously. The house, the client and his family history make a fascinating and sometimes unsettling impression. In the strange local community, K2 discovers that events from the war years still cast long shadows over the lives of both young and older people. Patricia is far away at home in Oslo, but K2 soon realises that he will need her help to clear up an old murder mystery that he is finding increasingly confusing and disturbing…

Dogs
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2023 · 368 pp

Dogs

Eystein Hanssen

Elli is back, this time as a detective for Kripos. Her first mission is a drug case in Gjøvik. Elli is struggling with the fact that her daughter Mali is being bullied. With a heavy mind she seeks support from her old partner Jan Nereng, who also get mixed in in a murder investigation, when this takes an unexpected turn. With her new Kripos colleague Hira Xaad and down-to-earth Liss Skyberg from Gjøvik, Elli digs deeper into a case that eventually will take her to Costa del Sol.Racism and police corruption are central themes in the socially critical crime Dogs, where Ellis's dog Zenith once again plays a defining role. «I was shuddering from the many wild descriptions, was left gaping when the final piece of the puzzle fell into place, and wasn't bored for a second ...»RANDABERG24, six/six stars

The Nameless Inheritance
Mystery and Crime2023 · 352 pp

The Nameless Inheritance

Ellen Gustavsen

Nerve-wrecking psycological thriller Warning: A DNA-test can potentially change your life A June evening in year 2000 a group of youths gather by a tarn outside the city to celebrate the end of middle school and beginning of high school. The energy is high, but when dawn breaks the joy shatters. A girl has been raped, and her revenge ends in a merciless tragedy for everyone involved. It's an incident that causes deep marks.Sixteen years later a doctor at a fertility clinic is brutally murdered. Police detective Lars Lukassen is assigned the case. The police quickly understands that it will be a challenging case to solve, and they soon are deep into an investigation involving Norway's sperm donor system and human lives, and also Lukassens's own history.This is a crime novel in the spirit of Lisa Marklund’s The Polar Circle. The search for identity and the consequences of a public sperm donor system that is unravelling create the framework for the second novel about Lars Lukassen, written by one of our most promising crime authors. «Well-written, capitvating and believeable ...»RINGERIKES BLAD, six/six stars «... without a doubt Ellen G. Simensen's best crime novel.»Randaberg24

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You're going to die
Mystery and Crime2023 · 368 pp

You're going to die

Gard Sveen

You're Going to Die is the first book in a new crime series about the detective duo Ulf Sommer and Agnete Ness. Winter 2019: The first weekend of December, Camilla Lund goes on a girl’s trip to Sweden. At least, that’s what she tells her husband. She never comes back home to Setesdal. Her husband’s suspicion that his wife is a completely different person than he believed grows stronger. Camilla didn’t have any old friends, no living parents – seemingly, she had no past at all. In Oslo the leader of Kripos (NCIS), Agnete Ness, is ordered by the Attorney General to start a secret investigation of Camilla Lund’s disappearance. The Attorney General wants Agnete’s best detective, Ulf Sommer, on the case. With strict orders to not reveal its contents to anyone except Ulf, Agnete is given a folder of secret documents. In the folder is a photograph of a young girl. Twenty years ago, everyone in Norway knew her face. Three neo-Nazis, including a fifteen-year-old girl, were sentenced for the murder of two immigrant boys in Oslo. It was the most shocking murder case the country had ever experienced. To Agnete Ness, it’s personal. The black abyss that she thought was in the past, is suddenly her reality again. Camilla Lund’s disappearance is the start of Agnete’s biggest nightmare. To Ulf Sommer, it’s a ticking clock: He is the only one who can save Agnete from her own past.

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