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Double Fault
Mystery and Crime2025 · 304 pp

Double Fault

Gudmund Skjeldal

Double fault opens with a murder… or does it? The surface is orange-brown clay, and behind protagonist Paul Dalby, Casper Ruud’s star is rising. Just like Ruud, Paul thinks that persistent and patient training will pay in the long run. At the same time, he lacks something important – the ability to say no. Or the urge to speak out. The ability to resist temptation. He is ambitious enough, but he is also young and has a lust for life. We follow Paul and his coach, Edgar, through both highs and lows in the professional tennis circuit, to an intense and unexpected climax in Marbella. Along the way, the footsteps of the two Norwegians are dogged by stringers, or perhaps we might call them spiders that want to trap tennis stars in their webs. On one level, The Stringer is a novel about the rise and painful fall of a young person. Deeper down, it is a story about a friendship spanning two generations. Even deeper, it is a gripping novel about how we try to absolve ourselves. What do you do when you’ve painted yourself into a corner – and when you also know that you need to fumble a match against an opponent who is much worse than you? Is there a way out?

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Kismet
Mystery and Crime2025 · 334 pp

Kismet

Torkil Damhaug / Abid Raja

A gripping and highly relevant psychological thriller from bookseller favourite Abid Raja and award-winning crime author Torkil Damhaug Abid Raja and Torkil Damhaug have written an intelligent and intensely suspenseful novel that blends political intrigue, psychological depth and a pulse that never lets up. Thirty-five-year-old Aurang Zeb Khan is summoned to a secret meeting at the Prime Minister’s office. The lawyer, with a minority background and a rising political profile, has been named a candidate for a ministerial post. Aurang has spoken openly in the media about his turbulent youth, admitting to brushes with gangs and petty crime, and claims he has been open and honest about his past. But when childhood friend Musah Ahmad suddenly resurfaces, disturbing memories from a Quran school in Pakistan and teenage years in Oslo’s East emerge, memories that must remain buried at all costs. Soon, Aurang finds himself under pressure from multiple sides, and it is no longer just his career on the line. It becomes a matter of survival, of old lies and a past that must never come to light. Are there forces within or around us that shape who we become and what we do? Or are our actions the result of free will? Kismet offers a unique combination of Damhaug’s psychological precision and Raja’s first-hand insight into political and cultural environments rarely explored in Norwegian fiction. The result is an unpredictable, powerful and brilliantly written novel about power, identity and the defining choices that shape our lives. NOMINATED FOR THE RIVERTON PRIZE 2025 «... the duo Damhaug and Raja is a stroke of genius. [...] More than a furiously exciting thriller, Kismet is a very good and multifaceted story.»Dagbladet, five/six stars «From a crime-technical perspective, Kismet is well-composed and neatly structured. The book is easy to read and flows naturally. The conversational style of the characters we meet is spot on. [...] In terms of quality, Kismet easily elevates itself among other newly written Norwegian crime fiction. The dynamic duo of Damhaug and Raja appear to have collaborated flawlessly.»VG «Damhaug has been one of Norway's most consistently interesting crime writers since his debut with Se meg, Medusa in 2007. Raja has been a prominent public debater for 25 years, with evolving perspectives on what it means to be Muslim in Norway. He achieved a literary breakthrough with his autobiography Min skyld in 2021. Together, they have crafted a crime novel that plays to both their strengths.»Morgenbladet

Come Home, Amadou
Mystery and Crime2025 · 224 pp

Come Home, Amadou

Karin Fossum

In the fifth book about Chief Inspector Eddie Feber, Karin Fossum lets the past strike back At Store Gaupen farm, the late summer silence is broken by a violent roar from the sky. For farm owner Nancy Nesbit, the sound is an ominous echo of something far more threatening, of an event she experienced as a ten-year-old, when a white van stopped by the roadside and changed everything. When she, in a magazine, reads about the unsolved disappearance of eight-year-old Sonia Sanningen in 1987, the memories come back in full force. The information she has may be what finally solves the case, or what tears up everything she has tried to bury. Eddie Feber must dig into a 36-year-old mystery, where repressed memories, old clues and new threats are woven together. Come Home, Amadou is an intense crime novel about guilt, silence and about how one observation can change everything. NOMINATED FOR THE RIVERTON PRIZE 2025

New thriller by Norway's Queen of Crime
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Men Falling
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2025 · 368 pp

Men Falling

Ellen Sofie Lauritzen

He is finally dead. The brilliant writer, the master manipulator. The man convicted of rape, then acquitted. Now, collapsed on the street and instantly dead. For journalist Selna Bru, this incident is the best birthday gift she could have asked for. RT Remi destroyed her career, branding her a plagiarist and left her with nothing. With his death, she is given the chance to reclaim her name and expose the world that protected him. But as she digs deeper, she finds herself trapped in a web of power, lies, and deceit. Suddenly she finds herself not just an observer, but also a player. Looking for love in all the wrong places, Selna might also fall victim to her own weaknesses, blinding her when she needs to be at her very sharpest. Men Falling is a suspenseful novel about power, truth and the fine line between justice and revenge. Blending psychological intrigue, MeToo revelations, and crime elements, it pulls the reader into a world where no one are really who they seem. [Men Falling is] a novel that satirises the ‘culture man’ and literary institutions, complicating the Manichaeism of crime fiction. It's crime fiction for women who have studied literature. … [The book] is an enjoyable depiction of a dusty, romanticised environment and an industry that ultimately answers to the bottom line, and where everyone is governed by recognition, love, and money. If there's a moral here, it might be this: The freelancer is always an easy target.BOKMAGASINET First and foremost, this is an exuberant, Sex and the City-esque story about a woman who wants to freeze her eggs and stop messing around, but who still usually gets drunk. … It is equally a cheerful mockery of the media industry and how publishers disregard ethical objections in their desperate quest to launch the most scandalous celebrity books.MORGENBLADET ... [the novel can] undoubtedly add insight into how complex they are, the stories of the women who are victims of sexual abuse, how much belief and doubt and self-loathing they can experience along the way, with partly foggy memories of what was done to them. In this way, the novel is good, as it never simplifies or trivialises, rather it problematises, while it is takes meetoo completely seriously.SAMTIDEN

Debut by a journalist and literary critic
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Murder in the Bookshop
UpLit / Mystery and Crime2025 · 368 pp

Murder in the Bookshop

Gunn Helene Arsky

When Minna Gabler is found dead at the foot of the stairs in her alternative bookshop, it’s quickly concluded to be the result of a tragic fall. But for Angel and her sister Isa-Linn, who suddenly inherit both the bookshop and a mysterious heirloom, it soon becomes apparent that there might be more to aunt Minna’s untimely death than meets the eye. Although Engel and Isa-Linn didn’t know their aunt, Engel moves to the charming small town of Halden with her wise Siamese cat, Luna. Once there, she discovers that the bookshop needs far more than just a bit of love and clever marketing. Minna has also left behind an unsolved mystery, leading Engel into a world of secret documents, old love stories, and encounters with the town’s quirky characters. With help from the bubbly neighbour Camilla and the irresistible journalist Adam – who makes her heart beat just a little faster – Engel embarks on a quest for answers. Who killed aunt Minna, and what secrets lie hidden between the pages of the old bookshop? Perhaps the answer is closer than she thinks... Murder in the Bookshop delivers charm, suspense, and small-town coziness – with a dash of humour and a cat that never fails to impress. Perfect for readers who adore cozy mysteries with a twist!

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The Night Child
Mystery and Crime2025 · 368 pp

The Night Child

Laura Djupvik

A story of family, concealment and a past you can't kill. Several hundred years ago, Stegleholmen was used as a place of execution. Since then, most people have kept their distance. When a construction project out on the islet digs up old bones, Helene's already confused father grows more unsettled. He seems frightened and starts wandering out at night. Helene leaves her aimless life in Oslo to return home and help him. Some believe the bones belong to those once executed on the islet. But shortly after Helene return, a woman is found murdered there. As fear spreads through the village and people are looking for answers, Helene begins to dig into the case. She soon finds herself in the midst of an old wound, surrounded by people seemingly willing to go to great lengths to keep the truth hidden. At the same time, the young and naive Connie dreams of a better life, preferably in the venerable Doctor House, under the wing of the well-grown Stella. But is this the right place for her, and the child she´s carrying? It soon turns out that the house holds secrets and a history that should not be awakened. As the case deepens, one question remains: are the bones on the islet really as old as everyone believes? The Night Child is a literary crime novel with dark and poetic undertones.

The Pact
Mystery and Crime2025 · 464 pp

The Pact

Hans Olav Lahlum

“Closed on account of celebration!” reads a sign in a shop window in Oslo on Liberation Day, May 8, 1945. At Youngstorget, four young idealists with ties to the labour movement gather. Josef, Kristine and Martin are children of the working class and share a background in the Labour Youth Party, while Maud, from an upper-class family, has thrown herself into communist activism. The four are relieved that the war is finally over and full of hope for a new and better life. Only weeks after the liberation, the four survive a life-threatening event together, which forces them to keep a dark secret. The pact they make that summer will shadow their lives for decades to come, even as each of them follows different political and personal paths in a rapidly changing Norway. The Pact is the first installment in a gripping trilogy that follows Josef, Kristine, Martin and Maud into adulthood and through the post-war decades. Combining drama, social realism and elements of crime, it portrays both the turbulent private lives of its characters and the wider story of Norway’s political development in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Historical, political thriller
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

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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