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He Who Brings About Another’s Death
Mystery and Crime2016 · 368 pp

He Who Brings About Another’s Death

Chris Tvedt

A rock musician with a previous conviction for violence but now experiencing success as a writer, is accused of the murder of his literary mentor.For old times' sake, defence attorney Mikael Brenne has taken on a case he thinks he can win, but he forgets his possibly most important guiding rule: never ask a question if you don't know the answer.The consequence is not just the loss of a case, but the loss of a life.'Death Metal, a sex murder and a curious lawyer makes a welcome addition to the Norwegian Crime Literature.' AFTENPOSTEN'Thorough and professional.' DAGBLADET 'Another hit from Chris Tvedt! The plot is well developed, with threads which are braided well together and take surprising twists. (…) an entertaining and exciting Norwegian crime novel.' BERGENS TIDENDE 'Well-crafted, confident language, a fine gallery of characters and quality throughout. A new candidate for the Riverton Prize?'LO-AKTUELT

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A Fifth Season
Mystery and Crime2016 · 576 pp

A Fifth Season

Torkil Damhaug

Ann, Victor, Helene and Nicolai are four young friends. They like trying things out, but their exploits don't always turn out well. One of the things they should not have done was to lock a classmate in the basement of a ruined riverside factory, where there had once been a nasty accident. Soon after, two of the four youngsters are found dead, and the third has disappeared.A Fifth Season is a psychological thriller which brings the reader close to both victims and perpetrators. It is a crime novel where the reader has the opportunity to follow the investigation of abduction and murder. What happened? Who is guilty?‘Torkil Damhaug is a crime writer who is unusually assured in his form; I am unaware of any other writer who can invoke the way in which desperation lies in wait in the most everyday situations in quite the way that he does.’ VG‘Damhaug is a fantastic story­teller, who painstakingly unravels his well­composed narrative. Through dialogue, shifts in perspective and a broad spectrum of minor figures, his characters are depicted as a consequence of suppression, conflict and failure. The book is structured as a crime novel, but is also a masterfully constructed study of young people's environment in the most precariously emotional time of anyone's life, where anything can happen, for better or (in this case) worse. This book could be described as rural Norwegian crime writing with a high degree of literary ambition.’ DAGBLADET

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The Whisperer
Mystery and Crime2016 · 336 pp

The Whisperer

Karin Fossum

Ragna Riegel works at Europris and lives alone in her childhood home. Her parents have died and her only son has moved to Berlin, and they have no contact other than occasional Christmas and birthday cards. Ragna lives within close confines. She likes her job because it is full of routine, she likes to sit on the same seat on the bus every day and she likes to buy the same things at the local shop each day. She must have order in her life. And she does, until one day she finds a letter in her mailbox with her name on the envelope and a clear threat written in block capitals on the sheet inside. The letter reinforces a nightmare where Ragna Riegel's life is threatened by an unknown enemy and she realises that she must use all means possible to defend herself. The novel takes the form of Konrad Sejer's interrogation of Ragna Riegel after the worst has happened; after it is too late. A powerful narrative from one of the strongest voices in Norwegian crime literature. ‘Hviskeren is a novel that measures up to any literature, crime or otherwise.’ DAGBLADET ‘It is her ability to make average, often wounded human psyches crackle and glow in all the colours of the rainbow that is Fossum's forte as a writer. She has an exceptional eye for fragility and vulnerability, and the complexity and dark humour of these states of mind.’ AFTENPOSTEN

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The Track Change Murder
Mystery and Crime2016 · 432 pp

The Track Change Murder

Hans Olav Lahlum

A 17 year old skier is found shot on the track during the last lap of a relay race at Holmenkollen. The incident happened in open ground, but without any witnesses. Detective Officer Kolbjørn ‘K2’ Kristiansen has a worrying new case to investigate.The more K2 digs beneath the apparently undramatic surface of the murdered girl's life, the more dramatic events he discovers. The victim was adopted and lived alone with her adoptive mother in a rather cool atmosphere. Ingeborg didn't like her mother's new lover. She was also searching intensely for the truth about her own origins and had just found out who her biological father was.Sporvekslingsmordet is a thought provoking family history of a child adopted in 1970s Norway, and a new classic crime mystery in the series featuring K2 and Patricia.'Sporvekslingsmordet is his best crime novel so far. Even those who do not like crime will enjoy reading this one.' TVEDESTRANDPOSTEN 'This crime novel is a joy to read! This is definitely Hans Olav Lahlum´s most ambitious and best crime novel to date, full of clues going off in all directions and all coming together in an impressive manner.' LO-AKTUELT 'Sporvekslingsmordet is not only intelligent – it is crime magic that is truly fascinating.' GJENGANGEREN '... clocks in the finish of his best K2-novel so far.' STAVANGER AFTENBLAD 'A crime mystery starting off as one of Lahlum´s most intense and best … The story Lahlum has concocted is more complex and has more genuine human pain than his previous novels. In it we find the political lines from the eastern front to Argentina, homosexual love, rivalry between siblings and people who work together, individuals searching for identity and meaning and prejudice in a society divided by class. Lahlum cleverly plays out the same problems in different times, and he has a few aces up his sleeve.' ADRESSEAVISEN

Branded
Mystery and Crime2015 · 344 pp

Branded

Eystein Hanssen

The fifth novel about police detective Elli Sunee Rathke provides hard-hitting police action from Oslo and Bangkok. It introduces completely new aspects of Elli's family background. She has a Thai mother and a Norwegian father, but hints about her life in a broader sense are just as important. Elli's partner Jan Nereng also develops as a character. This novel offers a thrilling journey through the underworlds of both Bangkok and Oslo – motorcycle gangs, brothels in Patpong – and not least a journey through Elli's own family history.

Those not missed
Mystery and Crime2015 · 464 pp

Those not missed

Eystein Hanssen

Those not missed (De ingen savner) is the first book in the series about Elisabeth Sunee Rathke - Elli for short. Half Thai, half Norwegian Police investigator with a black belt in karate. A young girl is found dead in Oslos Old Town burial ground. She is naked and smells of an unknown chemical fluid. In her arm a syringe. Her death is the start of a cruel case that just keeps growing, turning out to be Ellis most challenging case ever. Eystein Hanssen was nominated to the Norwegian Booksellers Award for this book, his debut as a writer.

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Stream of Poison
Mystery and Crime2015 · 432 pp

Stream of Poison

Eystein Hanssen

During a drug raid in Oslo, the police detaine five persons. One of them is a young man from Uganda. At the same time, the Norwegian embassy in Kampala receives a package. The content documents that Otto Kamperud has been taken hostage by the ruthless guerrilla he for some time has been negotiating with. This is the second book in the Elli-series."Ambitious crime with an international twist" Bokelskerinnen.no "Knowledgeable about the fight for resources in Africa" DAGBLADET Eystein Hanssen was nominated to the Norwegian Booksellers Award for the second time for this book.

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The Human Shark
Mystery and Crime2015 · 240 pp

The Human Shark

Hans Olav Lahlum

K2 and Patricia have officially become lovers when this book starts. It is the summer of 1972, and K2 is invited to a sociable weekend at a beautifully situated hotel in South Norway. The only drawback is that the hotel is on an island which is not really wheel-chair friendly. Nevertheless, Patricia comes too, on what will turn out to be a fateful weekend outing. Exactly ten years previously, a little baby boy had been found beaten to death at the hotel. His twin sisters were supposed to be looking after him, and they both swore that they had nothing to do with the murder. However, one of the sisters disappeared right after the misdeed was discovered. The child's mother committed suicide soon after, but the surviving guests from that gruesome weekend are now gathered at the hotel, and the manager's plan is for K2 to solve the mystery. The manager has his own weighty reasons to want to get to the bottom of the matter. Unfortunately there appears to be an uninvited guest at the hotel, a guest with murderous intentions, and this time Patricia comes into the firing line. With a respectful nod to Ten Little Niggers, Hans Olav Lahlum has written a perfect chamber play where passion and brutal death occupy the main stage. ’ Haimennesket takes its place among the row of good crime novels from the hand of Hans Olav Lahlum.' TVEDESTRANDPOSTEN 'It is not difficult to understand that Hans Olav Lahlum’s crime novels have a big circle of readers. They are a breath of fresh air in what seems an otherwise deadlocked genre.' DAGBLADET 'Haimennesket is thrilling and intense and is a positive change from bloody and loud hi tech action crime. The revelation of the whodonnut did not come as a shock, but the ending is exemplary witty and vibrant.' OPPLAND ARBEIDERBLAD'The charm of Hans Olav Lahlum´s quickly growing series about police commissioner Kolbjørn Kristiansen, aka K2, rests on a confident flair for the late 60´s and 70´s bourgeois social conventions. The characters speak in a typically civilized manner even in the most stressed situations, and the bloodshed is treated with stoic and distuinguished calm.' AFTENPOSTEN'This novel is the exact correct length for the pastiche not to be trying and it is definitely the most exciting novel of the K2-series so far.' STAVANGER AFTENBLAD

Hellfire
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2015 · 256 pp

Hellfire

Karin Fossum

Inspector Konrad Sejer is called to investigate the double murder of a mother and her young son. They have been found, knifed repeatedly, in a worn-out caravan on a remote piece of land. A bloody footprint is discovered. Meanwhile, another mother, dying of cancer, confesses to her 21-year-old son that he is adopted. The man who abandoned them, whom the boy has become obsessed by, is not his real father.Delving deep into the vagaries of family and why we lie, Fossum expertly intertwines their stories, forcing us to question what drives people to commit the most horrific of crimes. This is the twelft book about Inspector Sejer. Hellfire is one of Karin Fossum’s best crime stories. … In her writing, Fossum expertly captures the nuances of everyday life and the way in which living people struggle to make sense of life. She does it with a subdued tone and an unwavering dedication to her characters. … In Helvetesilden, the story approaches a point which is heartbreaking rather than thrilling. This novel shows that Karin Fossum is in a class of her own as a crime writer.DAGSAVISEN Here she delivers what must be one of her most penetrating and moving novels. An author at the height of her creative ability. … The composition is almost a stroke of genius in itself, as for a long time we are at a complete loss as to how Fossum intends to fuse the parallel storylines. … The way she does it demonstrates both her mastery of her trade and her formidable ability to portray tormented minds without diminishing them through inconsequential platitudes about insanity and other dissociative diagnoses.AFTENPOSTEN The opening scene showcases Fossum at her best – the dank camper van, the heat and the brutal murders. The detailed, subdued tone; the grotesque in the middle of the everyday.DAGBLADET Karin Fossum is the most literary of the Norwegian crime writers ... The novel is skilfully composed, and several of the characters from Hellfire will remain with the reader long after the final page has been turned.ADRESSEAVISEN

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Everything Will Be Hidden in One Hundred Years
Mystery and Crime2015 · 480 pp

Everything Will Be Hidden in One Hundred Years

Per Arne Totland

In 1924, the Norwegian government was forced to enter into a secret agreement giving the Soviet Union control of Svalbard in 2020. But this document soon went missing under unclear circumstances, and the agreement was forgotten. It resurfaces more than ninety years later. In a time when Europe is standing against an agressive Russia that wants to be a superpower in the far north of the world. The Russian president implements a comprehensive plan to undermine Norwegian sovereignty in Svalbard. The battle for the Arctic gains a new dimension, and drama unfolds in Longyearbyen. Om hundre år er allting gjemt is an international thriller that reflects the political conflict that already existed when the Svalbard Treaty was entered into in 1920 and that may flare up again as the eyes of the world look to the Arctic. ‘Om hundre år er allting gjemt is frighteningly close to our reality.’FORSVARETS FORUM‘The battle for the Arctic is given a new dimension in this interesting first novel.’VÅRT LAND

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The Sun God
Mystery and Crime2015 · 384 pp

The Sun God

Ole Kristian Ellingsen

The thriller Solguden is a standalone follow-up to Ole Kristian Ellingsen's critically-acclaimed crime debut, Frikjent, which was published in 2014. The main characters are still freelance TV reporter Erik Engum and librarian Rakel Maier. The story is told in the present and starts on Melkøya in Finnmark, where Prime Minister Erna Solberg is launching a magnificent energy venture in collaboration with Statoil and an idealistic, African biofuel company that wants to provide local farmers with work and an income. During a trip to Zimbabwe for a news report, Erik Engum happens to discover that the Norwegian head of this company is staying in a luxury safari lodge along with corrupt politicians, scantily-clad women and disreputable businessmen. He suspects that the company has completely different intentions for the Norway collaboration than what the Norwegian government has been led to believe.Together with a couple of African associates, Erik Engum and Rakel Maier finally expose how Norwegian gullibility and oil wealth is being exploited with a cynical fraud involving both well known heads of state and powerful, white traffickers – Africa's real masters. Raken and Erik's relationship is also under threat from other quarters... This novel is ficticious, but based on thought-provoking facts from a little known reality.