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Dog Without a Grave
Mystery and Crime2022 · 464 pp

Dog Without a Grave

Torkil Damhaug

In this gripping thriller by Torkil Damhaug, the reader is pulled into a world where violence and revenge looms, but also where compassion and reconciliation are possible. Gina Witt, a feminist and TV-celebrity, is admired and hated for her current affairs show on TV. One of her episodes is about sexual assault, where the accusor and the accused parttake. Shortly after the episode, the infamous host is found murdered in her sister’s house. The formerly famous lawyer Fred Rivers finds out that it was his daughter Silje who returned home to find her aunt Gina murdered. The murder also has creepy similarities with the case Rivers himself was convicted for, 12 years earlier. He can’t let go of the thought that Silje could also be in danger. Winner of the Norwegian Riverton Prize for Crime in 2022.«Torkil Damhaug is one of Norway's sharpest crime writers and a rare genius.»RANDABERG24, six/six stars«He composes a captivating plot, and reasons without missing a step.»STAVANGER AFTENBLAD, five/six stars«... first and foremost a damned good story.»NRK

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Mord og kjærlighet
Mystery and Crime2022 · 384 pp

Mord og kjærlighet

Atle Nielsen

In Love and Murder, we’re introduced to TV2 journalist Ole Bull as he works to push through a controversial report with major implications for a city council member and her family.The case takes a dramatic turn when Bull’s own boss is fatally shot outside his home a few weeks later. Both the police and the media suspect that the unknown killer has several more names on their hit-list. Ole Bull goes into hiding in London, but little does he know that one of the clues in the murder case happens to lead the investigation to the very same place. A race between life and death ensues, in both London and Norway. Love and Murder is a dark thriller about dangerous curiosity and what happens to a journalist’s integrity when constantly put to the test.

Love and Murder
Mystery and Crime2022

Love and Murder

Atle Nielsen

Love and Murder is the title of Atle Nielsen´s second crime novel, with the main character Ole Bull. He is a TV-journalist and have just forced through a controversial news report that might have great implications for a member of the city council and her family. The case takes a dramatic turn a couple of weeks later, as Bull´s boss is shot and killed outside his home. The police, with the aggressive - but skilled - Ingemunn Fenne leading them, understand that the murder is linked to the news case about the allegedly corrupt city council member. Both the police and the press suspect that the killer has more names on the list. Ole Bull travels to London to lay low for a while. It is a city he knows well and also the hometown of photographer Emma Byrnes. Little does he know that one of the traces in the murder case lead right there. It turns into a life-and-death race, both in London and on the west coast of Norway, and the skilled reporter is faced with taking the hardest decision of his life when the people behind the murder in Bergen get closer to their next victim. Love and Murder is a dark thriller about dangerous curiosity and journalistic integrity being put to the test over and over. Where Jørn Lier Horst knows how to write about the everyday life of a policeman, Atle Nielsen does the same with the life of a journalist.

The Night Runner
Mystery and Crime2022 · 192 pp

The Night Runner

Karin Fossum

In the dead of night he suddenly stands at the bedside of his victims, wordlessly pointing his gun at them... But who gets to live, and who will die?Fear is running rampant in a small Norwegian town: three people have survived attacks by the burglar known as The Night Runner – but how long until the first victim dies? Inspector Eddie Feber is sure that the mysterious number combinations at the crime scenes provide a clue - will he solve the mystery in time? What Feber doesn't know is that close to him, young Meidel Jonsson also feels that he is suffocating from fear: the day when his father is released from prison is getting closer and closer - and with him evil will return...REVIEWS «A charming detective and a nerve-wrecking crazy killer. This is Fossum-crime of the top shelf!»Dagbladet *****«The Night Runner is yet another insightful crime about those who exist on the outside. A large story in a small format, told by an author who is still at the top in her genre. After 18 published novels that's no small feat!»VG ***** «... entertaining and elegant novel from one of our incisive Norwegian crime writers.»Tønsbergs blad *****«The novel belongs to the top shelf because Karin Fossum is unusually elegant in her writing. She writes simply, varied and poetically. Different environments are described with atmosphere. The sentences can be crystal clear and full of significance at the same time. But most importantly: Karin Fossum doesn't settle for writing about police and robbers. That makes her crime novel something more than crime novels. ... Karin Fossum's language is precise and well written. Thus, a paragraph can say more than thousand words.»Aftenposten«The nuanced and close-up portraits of the criminal mind is something that characterise Fossums writing style, and which lifts her from pure crime to readers with a taste for the literary.»NRK «It is the descriptions and revelations of these combinations and variations in human behaviours that makes Karin Fossum's crime novels such strong reading experiences. She lets us into the dark corners, and shows us people who live on the borderlands.»Dagsavisen

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Newtons vugge
Mystery and Crime2022 · 384 pp

Newtons vugge

Lars Ove Sæther

Lars Ove Sæther won the Cappelen Damm crime fiction competition in 2013 with Hanegal and is now back with a driven, original psychological thriller. Isak has facial injuries that require him to undergo extensive facial and scull reconstruction. He is also adopted and is both harassed and bullied at school.Then, one of the bullies disappears... Newton's cradle is a book with many layers and and a very eerie twist.

The Sibling Mysteries
Mystery and Crime2022 · 304 pp

The Sibling Mysteries

Hans Olav Lahlum

The tenth novel in the K2 series from Hans Olav Lahlum! It’s 1974 and K2 is now working as a private investigator. One day a young woman named Marlene shows up at his office. She puts a large bank note and a black-white photography on his desk. The man in the photo was convicted in 1963 for the murder of the woman’s older brother, Daniel, and is due to be released the following day. The only problem is that the young woman in K2’s office isn’t sure if the right man was convicted for the murder. She wants to pay K2 to solve the case. Then, the convict surfaces dead shortly after being released. Who's behind it all?In K2's office, Daniel and Marlene's father also shows up. His wish to get answers to his own sister's disappearance back in 1939 means K2 has to ask his loyal consultant Patricia for help. Who was Daniel? Who killed him and why? And what is the connection between the disappearence in 1939, and the murders in 1963 and 1973?

The Silent Savannah
Mystery and Crime2022 · 304 pp

The Silent Savannah

Sigbjørn Mostue

The Silent Savannah is the sequel to Sigbjørn Mostue’s nail-biting, Riverton Prize-nominated thriller The heavens will weep blood in which we met the series hero: Even Stubberud, leader of a top-secret, counter-terrorism unit. The retired elite soldier is looking to start a new life in Kenya, where he plans on helping train the Savannah gamekeepers and bring about an end to the ruthless slaughter of elephants and other wildlife. However, strong forces lie behind the poaching activities – forces connected to some of the world’s most powerful nations. With an evocative imperial backdrop, The Silent Savannah is an intense and exciting thriller that highlights one of the greatest disasters of our time: Nature’s extinction.

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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