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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

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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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Farewell, Farah Diba
Mystery and Crime2023 · 320 pp

Farewell, Farah Diba

Karin Fossum

The third crime novel about the energetic detective Eddie Feber is one of the best books Karin Fossum has ever written. A man storms into a police station, limping, past the queuing system and shouts that his daughter has disappeared. His despair is heart-breaking. Kandis, almost 6 years old, has disappeared in the middle of the day on a Saturday. She was wearing a light blue dress and hair bow, strappy sandals, and her dark hair was gathered in a braid. The desperate man is Alfie René, Kandis’s dad. Her mother, Fayroz Mohaved, is dead from cancer. Alfie is visibly injured from a serious motorcycle accident. It turns out that a little girl has been observed in a grey van, both near a supermarket and a gas station near the forested area of Natvig. We follow Eddie Feber and his partner Margot as they search for traces. Has she been kidnapped by an abuser? Has the little girl in the beautiful dress been taken far into the dark forest? Does a shipment of OxyContin opiod pills have something to do with the disappearance? As the days go by, the hope of finding the girl alive becomes a desperate and perhaps unrealistic hope. Eddie Feber also has a daughter of the same age as Kandis and the case hits him hard. We get to know him on a more personal level than in previous books. Karin Fossum has written a painfully relevant and gripping story, where the readers will have their assumptions and suspicions turned on their heads. NOMINATED TO THE RIVERTON PRIZE 2024 Reveiws World class «Heart-wrenching topic which, by anyone other than Fossum would be speculative and tendentious. […] at her best she writes psychological thrillers of world class. As this one is.» Dagbladet, six/six stars «Elegant and intelligent crime […] fairy-tale like, gripping and almost surreal.» Bok365, six/six stars «… one of the smartest crime authors in Norway, especially how thoughtfully she writes about what humans are capable of, both good and bad.» Randaberg24, six/six stars «Karin Fossum is close to her very best. And crime literature doesn’t get much better than that.» Adresseavisen, five/six stars Farewell, Farah Diba – Excels! «To deliver so strongly only a year after her previous publication, is an achievement few Norwegian crime authors will do after her.» VG, five/six stars «Farewell, Farah Diba stands out as Karin Fossum at her most superb. It offers excitement, entertainment and wise reflections in a wonderful mix. Karin Fossum proves once again that she belongs to the very top echelon of Norwegian crime.» Dagsavisen Karin Fossum – A whole other class «Most crime stories, also the very good ones, are often particularly exciting in certain passages. With Fossum the whole novel is one continuous passage of excitement. No one does it better.» Nettavisen One of Bok365's best books of 2023 «We should and must live in uncertainty, as it should be, whether the mysteries can be solved or not, but there is a slow and almost imperceptible development in the relationship between child and adult which means that we as readers see with wonder and amazement and pure joy that the balance of power almost tips in favor of the child. In a blend of a fairy tale story, descriptions of nature, some philosophical considerations of life, the text gives us hope and faith in the forces of life.»

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The Snow Leopard
Mystery and Crime2023 · 400 pp

The Snow Leopard

Grethe Bøe

The Snow Leopard is a thrilling journey through the treacherous landscape of the Arctic, as the dedicated fighter pilot, Ylva Nordahl, save the world from the threat of the fifth colonists. The powerful nations of the USA, Russia, and China vie for control of the Arctic and its valuable resources. As the stakes grow higher, Ylva finds herself drawn into a deeper conflict: One that pits traditionalism against Western liberalism, and which threatens to tear the world apart. Unknown forces are planning a terror attack on one of NATO’s nuclear-powered submarines on Svalbard, and the only one who can stop it is Ylva. Following the success of Mayday, Ylva Nordahl is back in another political thriller with fast-paced action, a gripping plot, and nuanced exploration of contemporary politics and global power struggles. It is a story about sacrifice, courage, and the fight for survival in a rapidly changing world, and it will keep you on the edge of your seat from first to last page. «Two years ago Grethe Bøe made her debut as a crime/thriller-writer with Mayday, and I stated it was the best debut I'd ever read in the genre. Now figther pilot Ylva Nordahl and Bøe have returned in the sequel The Snow Leopard, and it is just as good.»Tidens krav, five/six stars

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The Dice Killer
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2023 · 400 pp

The Dice Killer

Hans Olav Lahlum

The date is 31st October, and the year is 1973. In his private detective office in Oslo Kolbjørn “K2” Kristiansen is visited by a shook-up lecturer. The lecturer thinks it’s unbelievable that an old friend in Gjøvik would die in a fall accident and underlines it by pointing out his friend was scared of heights. Kristiansen’s investigation in Gjøvik points to the death being an accident or suicide. He writes off the discovery of a dice on the crime scene as a coincidence, but he does wonder why the widow of the deceased doesn’t know about his fear of heights or his lecturer friend. Before K2 has time to ask his client about this, the lecturer passes away after being hit by a car. It turns out those left behind in his family also don’t know anything about his so-called friend in Gjøvik. K2’s confusion turns into a suspicion that a double murder has occurred, once he at the crime scene in Oslo finds another dice. K2 has to seek help from his secret advisor Patricia to clear up the mystery of how the two victims are connected. It will be a long, difficult task to stop this faceless and nameless dice killer… The Dice Killer is the 11th novel in historian Hans Olav Lahlum’s classic crime novel series set in 1960s and 1970s Norway.

Hidden under snow
Mystery and Crime2022 · 400 pp

Hidden under snow

Hilde S. Palladino

Hidden under snow is a character-driven psychological crime fiction novel. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is witness to the brutal suicide of one of her former clients – Azora. Among Azora’s possessions was a photograph of Bjørk, with the words ‘I know why you have nightmares’ written on it. Bjørk has always had terrible nightmares – nightmares she’s never mentioned to anyone else. So how could Azora have known about them, and why did she have that photo of Bjørk? Both the police and Bjørk search for the link between them. A link that connects the two and their lives more closely than Bjørk was even aware of herself. This work of psychological crime fiction is a fascinating dive into repressed memory and how the past and one’s upbringing can shape and impact them – even if they don’t remember it.Exciting and well-written crime debut with plenty of drive«... many surprises and people who both interests and moves us. ... Palladino writes with great energy.»Stavanger Aftenblad Efficient new Norwegian crime!«… an elaborate debut. … H. S. Palladino (53) is a Norwegian crime writer debutant with a firm grip on her tools. … The revelations towards the novel’s end, regarding Azora’s fate and Bjørk’s own past, will likely surprise even the most alert of readers.»VG A book full of surprisesEfficiently written, uses a number of smart crime-thriller methods that keeps the reader attention. Romsdals budstikke

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Under Pain of Death
Mystery and Crime2022 · 368 pp

Under Pain of Death

Hanne Gellein

At Moveien care home the residents seem frightened, scared, and confused. Lately there have been exceptionally many deaths following an unusually tough flu season, and at the same time there is little money for maintenance. One of the patients with dementia, Alma Lien, broke through the closed doors and was found frozen to death outside. The string of deaths worries pathologist Silje Andersen, and she suspects something might be seriously wrong. But how can she prove it? Elderly people dying is completely natural. Under Pain of Death is Hanne Gellein’s second crime novel and is a character-driven psychological crime novel inspired by reality. It shows to what extent a distorted human mind can decide to defend its gruesome actions. Religious fanaticism, distorted self-image, and the art of trusting oneself are key themes in this novel.