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Barcode
Mystery and Crime2017 · 384 pp

Barcode

Terje Bjøranger

A young woman is found brutally murdered near Sognsvann. She is dressed in police uniform and has an unmistakable tattoo on her chest. The next day, a top politician from the Labour Party jumps in front of a train at Lillestrøm station. As Police Detective Charlie Robertson dives into these cases, he sees connections no one else is willing to see. Robertson and his team get entangled in a pitch-black Oslo in which drugs, prostitution and human trafficking operate freely. "With his second novel, Terje Bjøranger come out as a fullblooded police novelist"DAGBLADET"A solid and surprisingly good Norwegian police crime that may very well end up as one of this year´s best crime fiction novels."ADRESSEAVISEN"Scary, gloomy and credible."ROMERIKES BLAD"Barcode is a terrifically good crime story. Here there is no lingering or unnecessary pauses in the action. It is straight forward, and every time you turn to a new page there is action and new surprises."KULTURSPEILET

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Sign of the Five
Mystery and Crime2017 · 384 pp

Sign of the Five

Hans Olav Lahlum

Sign of The Five is a psychological crime novel that both on the investigative and criminal side take up in it universally human topics like sin, punishment, revenge and forgiveness. The main narrative of the novel is about how both assailants and victims decades later still live with traumatic memories of things that happened during World War II. The book focuses on the nature of war and how it can affect especially young people very strongly. The main character in the book has, after losing his wife very early, moved all his hopes for the future over on his only son. And when the son dies, the grandson takes on the same role. When the grandson also dies, our protagonist becomes a man without hope for himself and his family. This triggers long forgotten memories, hidden far back in his mind. The dangerous story about why he lost his wife and why they only had one child - and grandchild, comes creeping out. Hans Olav Lahlum has written a number of crime novels, with the main characters K2 and Patricia. All of them bestsellers in Norway, and published in a number of other countries. Lahlums best thriller!This original thriller is a refreshingly good exploration of guilt, loss, revenge and reconciliation.ADRESSEAVISA

Det blå barnet
Mystery and Crime2017 · 256 pp

Det blå barnet

Eirik Husby Sæther

The Blue Child is an original Oslo-crime, where we are taken 100 years back in time to the working class areas around the Aker river, and the hard life working in the factories there. Police Inspector Mikael Wulf has placed his mother in a closed care facility. She suffers from Alzheimers and keeps talking about the blue child. In her room Mikael finds a drop of blood on her pillow from the former patient. Mikael has access to the morgue at Ullevål Hospital, an there he finds the patient and discovers a cruel murder method. Mikael has to solve two mysteries from his mothers`room: The murder of the former patient and the truth about The Blue Child. Eirik Huseby Sæther is a police officer with long experience from the Oslo Crime Guard. His writing is original, hushed and with good insight.

The Ninth Principle
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2017 · 240 pp

The Ninth Principle

Gert Nygårdshaug

Fredric Drum is in Egypt. For seemingly no reason at all, he is entangled in a mystery that threatens to drive him out of his mind. It becomes a life-and-death drama revolving around ancient history, the Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu), mummies, and inexplicable murders. A classic Nygårdshaug novel, packed with mystery, exotic lore, and suspense until the very last page.

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The Codex of Death
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2017 · 224 pp

The Codex of Death

Gert Nygårdshaug

Gert Nygårdshaug's food- and wine-loving hero, Fredric Drum, finds himself in Italy this time around. Commissioned by the University of Rome, he is tasked with deciphering an ancient Greek text. But suddenly he is entangled in a life-and-death drama whose ingredients include ancient philosophy, the Dark Ages, and a cynical, invisible killer who leaves his victims with no signs of external trauma. A quintessential Nygårdshaug novel, packed with mystery, exotic lore, and suspense from the first page to the last

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Heart of Glass
Mystery and Crime2017 · 416 pp

Heart of Glass

Torkil Damhaug

Robin and Mikkel are brothers. Robin witnesses the terrible thing that happens to his cousin Amina. He can't help her, nor can he get any help. Robin is unable to tell anyone what he has seen. While Mikkel knows something he does not want to tell. Not to anyone. Heart of Glass is a story about recognizing evil when you meet it. About struggling to understand whom you are. But it is also a story about how far a person will go to hold on to love. Torkil Damhaug has won the Riverton Prize twice, in 2011 for Fireraiser and 2016 for A Fifth Season. ‘The personal voice is one of the strengths of Damhaug as a writer. His way of writing makes him a magnificent example of a true literary crime writer.’ DAGBLADET ‘With the sharp portrayal of a nouveau riche, multicultural Norway – where the lines of conflict are criss­crossing in confusing patterns and where the ambiguous solutions are only found on Facebook – Heart of Glass is experienced as a rarely relevant crime. No Norwegian crime writer has done it better in a long time, maybe not since Damhaugs own Fire starter from 2011.’ AFTENPOSTEN

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The Honey Jar
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2017 · 208 pp

The Honey Jar

Gert Nygårdshaug

Fredric Drum is in Saint-Émilion, one of France’s most traditional wine regions, to source wine for the small Oslo restaurant he co-owns. Inadvertently, he is drawn into a disappearance mystery—seven local residents have vanished, likely murdered, over the past few months. And there is strong evidence suggesting Fredric may become the eighth victim. The Honey Jar is the first book in Gert Nygårdshaug's ten-volume series featuring gastronome and amateur archaeologist Fredric Drum and criminal investigator Skarphedin Olsen. «... a magnificent crime novel so captivating that it is a pure delight.»VG "(…) he has succeeded, and with flying colors, in weaving his knowledge and imaginative ideas into a tight, logical, and above all thrilling and original plot."Dagbladet "(…) Gert Nygårdshaug laces the novel with colorful backdrops in the form of in-depth wine knowledge, culinary subtleties, and otherwise eccentric expertise of various kinds (…) It is likely precisely this exotic touch that makes The Honey Jar so charming and elegant."Fremover "The book belongs to that category where you open it, start reading, and don't close it until the last page has been turned (…) The premise and content are original."Hamar Arbeiderblad "With a sure and steady pen, author Gert Nygårdshaug manages to create both atmosphere and, above all, suspense; and in his debut as a crime writer, he makes a solid impression."Fremtiden

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Hunted
Mystery and Crime2017 · 448 pp

Hunted

Eystein Hanssen

A body surfaces in Oslo's financial district – a man from the Middle East without any identification. The case is homicide detective Elli's first as a new mother. The investigation points to an American who is already in prison. Elli's intuition is that the murder was committed in order to hide an even greater crime in which the American was involved. Meanwhile, in Libya, Basma and her two children are fighting for a place on the boats that will cross the Mediterranean. With the migration from Syria as a background, the thriller Hunted (Jaget) portrays how war, escape and xenophobia push people to their utmost limits. Refugee Basma, rebel fighter Tariq, intelligence officer Skarpnes and investigator Elli each find themselves on their own edge of a ruthless game in which the ingredients are politics, terror and treason. Only when Basma arrives in Norway does Elli understand that a group of rebel fighters have hatched a sinister plan. The imprisoned American possesses the key to both the rebels' plans and to the murder mystery. But the US is using every means to get him extradited, which puts both Elli's and her daughter's lives in danger. 'Magnificent intelligence thriller!' DAGBLADET 'Hanssen sparkles in the Police scenes and shines when it comes to dialogue' VGWith his novels about detective Elli, Eystein Hansen has topped the charts on audiobook listening service Storytel, and twice been nominated for the Booksellers Award. Hunted is the sixth book in the Elli-series.

The Hunter's Doll
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2017 · 240 pp

The Hunter's Doll

Gert Nygårdshaug

A sensational archaeological discovery has been made in a remote mountain valley in Nord-Østerdal: two so-called bog bodies have been unearthed, along with several artifacts bearing strange inscriptions. Wine connoisseur and deciphering expert Fredric Drum is called in and suddenly finds himself at the center of mysterious events. Suspense builds around the appearance of an ancient hunter's amulet: a doll. Gert Nygårdshaug draws the reader into a world where trout fishing, magnificent nature, archaeology, and myths merge into a highly topical drama.

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Operation Hades
Mystery and Crime2017 · 352 pp

Operation Hades

Johnny Brenna / Sigbjørn Mostue

A thrilling and action packed crime! Operation Hades is the fourth book in the series about police detectives Axel. Th. Munthe and Tobben at the Oslo Policedepartment for special operations. The family of undercover cop Axel Th. Munthe's colleague Tobben is attacked. Some young people from a new, militant animal rights organization are found brutally harmed. It turns out that we are facing an international criminal organization without any scruples, and whose brutal conduct will show that they will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. If they succeed, the country will never be the same. "It does not lack action nor violence, this novel, that is the duos best so far. The writers have done well through all their four books about Axel and Tobben. As a read it flows well and the book can be hard to put down. Especially since it is action packed from beginning to end."ROMERIKES BLAD

In Deep Water
UpLit / Mystery and Crime2017 · 144 pp · Age 6 - 12

In Deep Water

Arne Svingen

The world's most dangerous gang is tougher than ever. This time, they've built the biggest slingshot ever using Killer's grandfather's suspenders. They must cure Vampire Rosa of the most unpleasant disease. The quartet become sumo wrestlers and find a dead man in the Evil Forest. The gang proves what true friendship is, which gets them into deep, deep water... The Verdens farligste gjeng-books contain short, wild and very funny stories about everything that can happen when the adults aren't paying attention.

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The Messenger
Mystery and Crime2016 · 384 pp

The Messenger

Gert Nygårdshaug

KRIPOS investigator Skarphedin Olsen is enjoying a gourmet dinner at his nephew Fredric Drum's fine dining restaurant, but what he looks forward to most is a long-awaited fishing trip to Hessdalen—a valley also famous for strange light phenomena that some believe to be UFOs. Outside the restaurant, a gunshot rings out, and they discover the establishment's final guest lying shot on the pavement. Before long, it turns out the victim is a renowned researcher who had recently spent time in Hessdalen. Much against his will, Olsen is ordered to investigate the case, and his fishing getaway is ruined. "Reading The Messenger leaves you with a warm, pleasant feeling. Not because of breathless suspense, but mostly due to its chuckling, distinct atmosphere and finely chiseled prose." Stavanger Aftenblad "Nygårdshaug portrays Skarphedin Olsen with great humor. His demeanor is always charmingly eccentric, the investigator's vocabulary is impeccable, and his dialogue is magnificent. While the fundamental plot points don't stray far from standard crime fiction, the execution is exquisite." Dagsavisen "It was only a matter of time before author Gert Nygårdshaug would find his way to UFO territory in Hessdalen. And when it finally happens, he does it in style. (...) The unorthodox is an essential aspect of Gert Nygårdshaug's crime novels, and in this year's book, he embraces it with unmatched charm." Hamar Arbeiderblad