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Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2021 · 240 pp

Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog

Karin Fossum

We’re in it together, she said. No matter how it ends, we two are in it together – can you promise me that? That she’ll die pretty soon? They looked at each other and smiled. After all, it was only a game. Aksel is a journalist with the local newspaper whose boss says he’s ‘good at tragedies’. His sister Ellinor has lost her job and is desperately seeking to escape from reality. Brother and sister have been close since childhood, bound together by destiny. A gas leak on a one of the big farms kills several hired hands in their sleep. It looks like an accident. In a nearby house, an 80-year-old woman is found lying at the foot of her stairs one day, with a crushed skull. Somebody has left the place in disarray to make it look like a burglary. In Deadly Dragon, Remorseful Dog, we meet a new and unusual detective: Eddie Feber – a man blessed with joie de vivre and eight children. Alert and seemingly chaotic, he nonetheless has strategies for bringing the dark truth to light.

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The Caliphate
Mystery and Crime2021 · 416 pp

The Caliphate

Terje Bjøranger

The body of a young man is discovered on Bygdøy island, Oslo. He is found wearing an orange coverall, and sitting with his own severed head held in his lap. Acts of terror strike Norway and Sweden, and the brutal nature of the attacks shake the peaceful Scandinavia. A young Yezidi woman is released from captivity, after several years as a sex slave in the Islamic State (IS). The Yezidi woman, who calls herself Baso, discovers that her former “owner” is now located in Sweden. Together with the Norwegian and Swedish police forces, Police Investigator Charlie Robertsen learns that the terrorists behind the recent attacks have even bigger plans. For even if the Islamic caliphate, seated in Raqqa, Syria now lays in ruins, the dream of the Caliphate still lives on. Charlie’s criminal foster son, Kim, is released from prison and ends caught up in the young yezidi woman’s burning desire for revenge, landing him in the crossfire between Charlie and the Jihadists.

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Mayday
Mystery and Crime2021 · 336 pp

Mayday

Grethe Bøe

Sensational Action Thriller Debut! The Arctic is blowing up – and Ylva is the spark! Caught behind enemy lines, NATO-pilots Ylva and John faces a seemingly impossible task: They have to cross the frozen Siberian tundra on foot - with the enemy at their heels – to get back to Norway and stop a catastrophe that might lead to World War III. The relations between Russia and NATO are at a freezing point as NATO launches their greatest ever winter exercise in the far north of Norway. The Russians are provoked and mobilize their own “snap exercise” on the Russian side of the border. A Russian fighter plane is provoking a Norwegian carrier helicopter in the border area between Norway and Russia, and F-16-pilots John Evans and Ylva Nordahl is sent to escort the helicopter safely to shore. The NATO-plane end up in a stress-flight with the Russian plane, and the F-16 is damaged in a near crash, it is then shot down after ending up on the Russian side of the border. The episode sparks political crisis where both Russia and NATO see the event as an attack. The only thing that can stop an all-destructive conflict is the pilots Ylva Nordahl and John Evans making their way back across the border to Norway, to tell what really happened. It is a fight against time, as the Russian President, The General Secretary of NATO and private military industry are all sharpening their knives.Norwegian Reviews: Norwegian Crime Sensation: Bravo!Grethe Bøe makes a great debut with achillinglyrealistic thriller where the north of Norway is in danger of becoming a new Crimea.***** - Five stars out of six.DAGBLADETRefreshing debutGrethe Bøe and her protagonist Ylva are fresh and welcome additions to the Norwegian Crime Book Universe. It feels refreshing to have the arrival of a female author writing in a genre otherwise dominated by men - already writing with authority and weight about anything from international politics and reindeer herding to how to fly a fighter jet. And not least in a language full of good and creative descriptions and sentences.VGA seriously fresh debutThe idea and potential is at top level, written with international approach, cockiness and thorough on all the detail; be it the technical parts of flying a fighter jet, military, political or geographical (...) with main characters that have extreme survival skills and technical knowledge.ADRESSEAVISA Nightmare in the whiteIce-cold thriller with a unique female hero.***** - Five starts out of six.STAVANGER AFTENBLADFrightingly good from BøeGrethe Bøe has established herself in the top of Norwegian crime authors on her first try. … This is the best crime debut I have read – ever.***** - Five starts out of six.NETTAVISEN Thriller from the ice-cold ArcticGrethe Bøe has created a story with great weight when it comes to the relevance of the topic.GJENGANGEREN This is without a doubt one of the best debut of the year. I take my hat off for this thoroughly solid debut, and with [Grethe Bøe] welcome into the gang of thriller and crime writers. Because Bøe can write. I already look forward to her next book.RANDABERG 24 Grethe Bøe has written a smart and entertaining thrillerEntertaining and smart.AFTENPOSTEN Salander on speedSay hello to the northern Lisbeth Salander.BOK365

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Pure as the Driven Snow
Mystery and Crime2021 · 272 pp

Pure as the Driven Snow

Hans Olav Lahlum

DI Engly Martinsen works against the clock to solve his biggest case yet. Lawyer and Nazi Party member Jens Otto Helmersen has been found shot dead at his cabin, but the snow around it is untouched. Who is the murderer and how did they manage to commit this crime without leaving so much as a footprint behind them? In this locked-room mystery from 1942 Oslo, Hans Olav Lahlum interweaves a historical crime mystery with the destinies of a troubled and politically divided family in occupied Norway.

All the Little Birds
Mystery and Crime2020 · 320 pp

All the Little Birds

Hanne Gellein

Pathologist Silje Andersen has left behind a difficult past and moved to Trondheim. During the autopsy of a young boy, she discovers a fateful connection. Judge Ingeborg Witsøe Berg is still grieving the loss of her daughter Maja, killed in an accident. But as she prepares for an important trial, Ingeborg finds a bird, a great tit, inside her house. This prompts two questions: how can her daughter’s favourite bird have found its way into a closed room? And what really happened the day Maja drowned in Nid River? All the Little Birds is a thriller with a terrifying premise. Two women are united in their quest to seek out the truth and the people who are hiding in the shadows. Because nothing is as it should be in Trondheim.Promising Debut The writer succeeds with creating believable characters and keeps the thrill up to the very last page. We are very much looking forward to reading new crime novels from this author. *****TRØNDER-AVISAGellein's debut is bloody and promising.ADRESSEAVISA

Lovely Creature
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2020 · 384 pp

Lovely Creature

Karin Fossum

A single mother finds a disturbing drawing in her son’s room. A young man and a teenage boy meet by chance on the shores of the deep lake in Svartland Forest. The next day, sixteen-year-old Gritt Zeeland is found dead in the same forest. There are so many reasons why a pretty young girl might be in danger. Police inspector Sejer finds himself dealing with a distressing murder mystery that has many possible solutions. Gritt Zeeland let almost nobody get close to her, but there were plenty of people –young and old – who had noticed her. Lovely Creature is a profoundly penetrating crime novel about beauty and ugliness, tenderness and violence, great lies and painful realities.Reviews: Masterful! An extremely actual and masterly performed crime novel. Everything is so well done that you feel like immediately reading the book again just to see how all the dots are connected. ******VGSurprising and straight forward elegant. *****DAGBLADETFossum at her best ******TRØNDERAVISASo realistic and strong, just straight forward remarkable writing - no matter the genre. (...) Karin Fossums psychological reflections are impressive, and the progress of the narrative is impeccable. The book has plenty of surprises and the occasional twist that made me think: I did not see that coming. It does not get much better than that. ******NETTAVISENMore than an ordinary crime novel. ******TØNSBERGS BLADOne of Karin Fossum´s very best crime novels. ******ADRESSEAVISAOne of Karin Fossum´s very best!DAGSAVISEN

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The Bastard
Mystery and Crime2020 · 304 pp

The Bastard

Øistein Borge

A Jewish man searching for justice. Two Romanian siblings fleeing hopelessness. A Norwegian policeman on his first overseas mission. All meet their fate, just hours after arriving on the Spanish holiday island of Mallorca. The temperature on the island is approaching 40 degrees – a heatwave appropriate for the hell that awaits Bogart Bull in this holiday paradise. And as befits a hell, there is also a devil here, pulling the strings.

The Third Angel
Mystery and Crime2020 · 288 pp

The Third Angel

Gert Nygårdshaug

KRIPOS investigator Skarphedin Olsen has moved to Røros and become the town's police chief. Then a macabre discovery is made: a human arm is sticking out of an anthill. The arm is examined by pathologists, while it turns out no one has been reported missing or involved in an accident. The mystery attracts major attention as it gradually emerges that the arm belongs to a very prominent person. "Once again, the author proves he is among our finest crime writers. The author is just as enigmatic, sending chills straight down your spine (...) a reading experience truly out of the ordinary, a page-turner brimming with boundless suspense. This is truly a crime novel you should read."Randaberg 24 "(...) a novel with room for the mystical, the imaginative, and the enigmatic (...) A crime story bearing the true Nygårdshaug trademark (...) This is a piece of authentic Drum, so sharp and varied that no one else carries on this exact form with this formula."Hamar Arbeiderblad "Entertaining and thrilling crime fiction (...) Nygårdshaug writes crime novels unlike anything else"Stavanger Aftenblad "Skarphedin Olsen is fascinating, and the story is captivating. Nygårdshaug has his own distinct style, and the plot is constructed with many small detours that constantly pull the reader into the world of gastronomy(...) Nygårdshaug is so thorough that once you get a taste for it, this becomes a delightful spice on the way to a surprising conclusion and solution."Trønder-Avisa "This is book number 13 in a delightful and utterly unique crime series (...) a well-written and elegant book."Adresseavisen

The Swan Murder
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2020 · 352 pp

The Swan Murder

Hans Olav Lahlum

A new highlight in the K2 and Patricia-series! The young private investigator Aurora Holmes suddenly appears in the life of K2 in the summer of 1973. K2 is soon smittened with her, but shortly afterwards she is found murdered in the Aker River. K2 agrees to lead the investigation, and the clues lead take him back to the Cold War, the Second World War and the Finish civil war of 1918. The Swan Murder is the ninth book in the bestselling series about K2 and Patricia.

Believe Me When I Lie
Mystery and Crime2020 · 384 pp

Believe Me When I Lie

Ellen Gustavsen

Police officer Lars Lukassen sees the chance of a promotion when he is called out to investigate a dead body. The situation at the police station in Hønefoss deteriorates when a sinister figure starts plaguing schoolchildren. At the same time, teacher Johanna Brekke arrives in town and Lars is attracted to her. But what is Johanna running away from, and who is friend and who is foe in the quest for truth? Believe Me When I Lie is a psychological crime novel that spans a wide canvas, from eastern Norway to the far west of the country. The language is playful and colorful, with nature descriptions approaching the poetic and filmatic. Especially when the plot turns to western Norway, she’s good. Very good.… This book debut proves to be a solid and suspense-driven thriller, where the author shares her keen insight into the human mind.RINGERIKES BLAD

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Dragonfly
Mystery and Crime2020 · 320 pp

Dragonfly

Jaran Dammann

Somebody has staggered barefoot up a mountainside near Fagernes. Homeless alcoholic Claus follows the footsteps in the snow and finds an injured, unconscious boy. At the same time, police chief Georg Bråten is called in when a construction worker finds a body buried in a ditch. Dragonfly is the third crime novel about a detective partnership that is unique in Norwegian crime writing – rough sleeper Claus and police chief Georg. Jaran Dammann writes suspenseful crime novels set in the natural beauty of Fagernes.