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Never Safe Again
Mystery and Crime2024 · 288 pp

Never Safe Again

Hanne Gellein

The shadows of the past are about to destroy the lives of Luca and Silje in different, horrific ways. Silje Andersen wakes up in chains in a darkened and foul-smelling basement. How did she end up here, and who wants to hurt her like this? She struggles to get out of her chains, and to freedom, but what chance does she really have? The rest of the world thinks she’s on holiday. The only person paranoid enough to look into it is her best friend Luca Stellander. He, however, is in custody after new information has surfaced regarding an old homicide case. It’s been five years since the leader of Nordic Front was murdered, and a key witness claims to have seen Luca kill him. Luca Stellander has tried in vain to distance himself from his past in the right-wing extremist community. Now the shadows are catching up to him. What really happened that night five years ago in Falstad forest? Never Safe Again is Hanne Gellein's third crime novel featuring the forensic pathologist Silje «... a good intrigue, that's well told.»ADRESSEAVISEN, five/six stars «... Gellein's fiercest thus far.»RANDABERG25, five/six stars

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Alekhine's Defence
Literature and Fiction2024 · 96 pp

Alekhine's Defence

Kristian Klausen

The Russian world chess champion Alexander Alekhine was found dead in a hotel room in Estoril, Portugal in 1946. The post-mortem report claimed that he choked on a piece of meat while eating dinner in the room. But is this the truth? Alekhine was a wanted man. He was on Soviet hit lists after the war due to his collaboration with the Germans. He played in well-paid chess tournaments in Germany from 1940–43 and allowed himself to be used in Nazi propaganda. The suspicion that he was killed and that the post-mortem report was falsified has intensified as the years have passed. In this novel, we meet Alekhine in another town that could be Estoril but could also be the mid-sized city of Drammen half an hour south of Oslo. Over the course of the day or so in which the action takes place, we encounter him penniless and intoxicated in a cheap hostel room and walking around as he recollects various events from his life and career. He decides to eat one last meal and commit suicide. But an encounter with a Norwegian chess player will change everything.

Alexandra
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

Alexandra

Merete Lien

Alexandra is the third and final book in Follow the wind – the captivating feelgood trilogy from Rome. Rome, June 2014: During a fashion show where Alexandra is showing her own work, something happens that changes everything. An older man reaches out to her – and what he has to say shakes her to the core. If what he claims is true, Alexandra must see her entire life in a new light. And, if she chooses to trust him, he can offer her priceless help in the final settlement with her husband, Wilhelm.

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The Company of Others
Literature and Fiction2024 · 256 pp

The Company of Others

Jonas Sundquist

Balder and two friends leave the summer heat of Oslo for a luxurious summer house on Nøtterøy. But cracks soon start to appear in the idyll: the power generator is kaput, a forest fire is threatening the other side of the fjord, and they are not allowed to go up into the attic. Strange things happen at night, no one can sleep, and as the days pass, everyone seems to withdraw more and more into themselves. It is as if everyone has secrets that none of them dare confront. Not least Balder himself, who refuses to talk about where he has been in recent years. Instead the façade is maintained, because after all, what is worse than those closest to you seeing who you really are? This is a novel about friendship, love and parties gone awry, about secrets, power and inadequacy, about young people with old money, but perhaps most of all about feeling alone in the company of others and oneself.

The Orange Trees Garden
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 336 pp

The Orange Trees Garden

Merete Lien

The Orange Trees Garden is the first book in a captivating feelgood trilogy set in Rome. Spring 2015: Agnes travels from Norway to Rome to find her friend Alexandra, who's been reported missing by her suddenly ill husband. What's happened to Alexandra—has something befallen her, or has she gone into hiding? In Rome, Agnes accidentally runs into an old flame, and her feelings for him rushes back. But how accidental is it, really, that he is in Rome now? The further into the mystery Agnes digs, the more confused she becomes. Who is Alexandra? Is her husband really ill? Soon, Agnes finds herself entangled into a cat-and-mouse game revolving around an art scam. She is given lies disguised as the truth, until she no longer can tell friend from fiend. Summer 1953: In one of the nicer areas of Rome, young, upper-class Francesca meets a man in a red sports car. The man is the famous American photographer Chris Henley, who's specialised in La Dolce Vita. Francesca falls heads over heels, but her parents are not thrilled by the match, convinced that Chris Henley is a gold digger. The series Follow the Wind is full of heart, excitement, passion and love. It crosses multiple timelines, where hidden motives and seedy affairs create secrets that won't stay secret forever.

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Blackberry Path
Literature and Fiction2024 · 240 pp

Blackberry Path

Eskil Skjeldal

Blackberry path is Fight Club meets life in a Norwegian satellite city. In 1971, a massive development project was begun in Rykkinn, half an hour outside of Oslo. Tower blocks, terraced houses and green spaces emerged, all with picturesque names like Lingonberry path, Raspberry path and Blackberry path. It was a social experiment and the residents on benefits all lived on Blackberry path, all the cases, as they used to be called. Fast forward to the eighties: Johannes lives in one of the tower blocks. His father is a violent drunk, his mother keeps to the background and his little brother hasn’t developed language yet. And then there’s Karl, Johannes’ mate. The two of them sell a little weed, party, cause trouble and love getting into fights. Johannes is a caring and responsible older brother and does everything for Magnus. This is a far cry from the Johannes that buries his fist in faces, stashes weed and money in the woods and breaks into his childhood friend’s home. I grew to love Johannes, but by the end of the novel I’m afraid of him too. Eskil Skjeldal has written compellingly about violence before, and this is no exception.

Wisteria
UpLit / Literature and Fiction2024 · 320 pp

Wisteria

Merete Lien

Wisteria is the second book in Follow the wind -- the captivating feelgood trilogy from Rome. Because of the deal with Alexandra, Agnes can stay in Alexandra's apartment by the Orange Trees Garden for free. Springtime is perfect for wandering the many streets of Rome — and for spending time in front of the easel. Agnes gets to know Gabriele, a handsome and kind Roman. He is quick to offer his help and gives her lots of attention, but Agnes is hesitant to let him all the way into her heart. She hasn't forgotten Stefan, and she doesn't know Gabriele's motives. But another man frequently seeks Agnes out, and his motives she both knows and fears ...

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The Lives of Others
Literature and Fiction2024 · 160 pp

The Lives of Others

Ida Fjeldbraaten

The Lives of Others is a merciless description of a society where everyone wants to be seen and heard, and where people will do anything to stand out from the crowd. A young woman previously worked on a reality show that ended up never airing. She isolates herself at home while scrolling endlessly thought the anti-social corners of the web. While the bills pile up and social security makes their demands, the protagonist escapes into other people’s lives. But what is real, and what is staged? What was it that went so terribly wrong during the recording of the reality show, set in an old asylum, that filmed five contestants left to their own devices? The Lives of Others is a poignant satire about the total domination of the reality genre, about loneliness, and about who will remain in the audience as everyone is clamoring to stand on stage. The novel ruthlessly depicts our contemporary times, where the need to be seen leads people into bottomless decay and total humiliation. «… a raw illustration of reality-TV’s dark side. … Reading this book was like therapy for us internet addicts. I want to throw my phone in the sea and take a long shower.»FRAMTIDA, six/six stars «Ida Fjeldbraaten manages to let the reality characters both amuse us and make us wiser. That's a tried-and-true recipe for a good book.» MORGENBLADET «The Lives of Others drips of bitter satire. Occasionally, the observations are funny and precise.»DAGBLADET «The novel is too credible to be pure satire and stretched too far to be pure realism. It is elegantly balanced …»DAG OG TID «… a piece of well-written, entertaining gluttony in misery and suffering.»KLASSEKAMPEN

The One No One Sees
Mystery and Crime2024 · 384 pp

The One No One Sees

Terje Bjøranger

Nazdar Gulli’s family discovers that studying law isn’t all she’s doing at university. She’s also seeing Julio. Soon after this revelation, Nazdar ends up in hospital as an obvious victim of honour-based violence. Police investigator Charlie Robertsen tries to get Nazdar to report her brothers and father for violence and attempted murder. But Nazdar drops the charges, scared of the consequences they could have for both her family and for herself. The investigation is put on ice, but Charlie can’t let the case go. He knows that Nazdar is in danger of being sent out of the country and disappearing, like so many other women who are victims of honour crimes. Can he help her in time? At the same time, a young man calling himself Azad hides with a Kurdish single mother and her daughter in Sweden. Mother and daughter are brutally shot and killed by a criminal gang. Azad wants to avenge them, no matter the cost. Even if it costs him his secret identity. The One No One Sees is a realistic and captivating thriller with deep insight into a highly topical social issue. [...] an engaging and gripping story – written in ice cold and controlled language. Terje Bjøranger is a brilliant author who knows the art of building an intrigue. [...] one of the best and most relevant Norwegian crime novels I've read in a long time.VG - six/six stars [...] frightening, nail-bitingly intense and topical.Randaberg 24 - six/six stars [...] a frightening and extremely exciting thriller.Nettavisen - five/six stars The most important crime novel of the yearTerje Bjøranger has delivered a very good thriller. It’s the most political crime novel of the year. That makes it brave. And important.Stavanger Aftenblad - five/six stars

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Burden of Guilt
Literature and Fiction / Mystery and Crime2024 · 448 pp

Burden of Guilt

Hilde S. Palladino

It is a scorching hot summer. The heatwave has lasted for weeks. Former forensic psychologist Bjørk Isdahl is tasked by the police with looking for a middle-aged woman who has disappeared. It turns out that the missing woman had a daughter who disappeared without a trace, eighteen years ago. Bjørk quickly discovers similarities to the double-homicide case in which she made a fatal error three years ago. Where she caused the wrong person to be charged with the brutal murder of two teenage girls. He ended up taking his own life in his cell. Together with her former partner at the National Criminal Investigation Service, Absalon Lund, Bjørk starts investigating the case. The girl who disappeared eighteen years ago may have been the actual perpetrator’s first victim. Bjørk and Absalon are likely hunting a killer who may have been active for two decades. A perpetrator who has become Bjørk’s nemesis. As the search for the missing woman intensifies, yet another young girl disappears from the neighbourhood. Bjørk is convinced that the serial killer is active again. Burden of Guilt is an ambitious and well-written psychological crime novel that serves as a follow-up to H.S. Palladino’s explosive debut. The first book in the series, Hidden Under Snow, was sold to Germany, Sweden and Denmark on publication. «Vibrating and mystified crime where the author keeps the reader in doubt until the last sentence»RANDEBERG 24, six/six stars

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Where the Larks Sing
UpLit2024 · 304 pp

Where the Larks Sing

Ann-Christin Gjersøe

A curse that goes through generations - a love that's put to the test Spring 1867. Rose is preparing for her stay in Denmark, filled with sweet expectations now that she knows Torkel will follow her. Well hidden in her luggage is a fateful letter and a forgotten diary, inherited from her paternal grandmother. In the diary, Rose will learn of a secret that could ruin her family. Alise and Birk must say their farewells, as Birk is leaving to go to Germany to study. Will their love be able to survive the distance? At the same time, the conflict between Alise's father, on behalf of the tenants, and the land agent Captain Crossby is getting heated, and will have fatal consequences. Miss Aurelia's boundless cunning and web of lies become a trial for the mute chamber maid Margrete, as she discovers that Aurealia has stolen one of Alise's letters from Birk. Margrete's own love life is also a mess of confusion—is Axel just being nice to her out of pity, or could he really, truly return her feelings?

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The Absence
Literature and Fiction2024 · 144 pp

The Absence

Susanne Mørk

Every day we live is as fateful as it is destined. Anything can happen. In The Absence people meet people, often in an unusual way. People with unclear desires. People who don't really understand themselves. Who follow after one another. People who disappear. People who never leave. People left behind, without closure. It's as if there is a curse upon us as we read. Often, the author folds the lives of their characters together, like freshly laundered clothes, and the perception of time changes, as does truth, meaning, and all those things. They are understood as folded, rather than chronological. The stories in The Absence confirm that we live tragic lives, which we don't really have control over - but it doesn't make us condemned creatures.

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