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1) Midnight sun
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From the internationally bestselling author of the Harry Hole novels comes this short, lyrical tale of a man on the run from a crime lord's deadly retribution, lost far beyond the Arctic Circle, where the sun remains in the sky for months on end.A wayward hitman, mourning a recent loss, arrives in a tiny town on Norway's far northeastern border. He calls himself Ulf and gives a halfhearted excuse for his presence, but the locals, who seem as if out...
3) Requiem
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Viljar Gudmundsson is no stranger to chilling stories. So when he receives an anonymous e-mail in which the writer proclaims their intention to execute a woman for her unpunished crimes, he thinks the whole thing is a bad joke. Such things happen only in bad crime novels, after all. But the next day, the body of a woman is found, and Viljar receives a second e-mail with another verdict from this self-proclaimed judge, jury, and executioner....
Author
Series
Xiao shuo volume 1101
Publisher
Man you zhe wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2011
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An American woman wakes up alone in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She has no map, no compass, and no food. How she ended up there, and the tragic details of her life, emerge over the course of this novel. We discover that Jane is a novelist with a bad case of writer's block -- she had come to Norway to seek out distant relatives and family history, but when her trip went awry, she...
6) Makebai
Author
Series
Tiao zhan Shashibiya volume 6
Publisher
Ji mo chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave church. And then Knut Abrahamsen, a former police officer from the area, is found drowned in the nearby Tokke River, a presumed suicide since his pockets...
Author
Series
Blood on snow volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder. He works for Oslo's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A dark, thrilling short-story collection about twisted minds and vengeful hearts, from a true master of suspense. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society; a woman finally overcomes her intimacy issues through a dark encounter with her Peeping Tom neighbor; a...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The main character in Asle Skredderberget's crime novels is Milo Cavalli. Half Norwegian and half Italian, he is definitely not your typical depressed Nordic noir investigator. In fact he's quite the opposite. Milo is successful and attractive AND extremely rich. He goes to confession. He worries about his friends and family. And he taps into his family fortune whenever he needs to in order to crack the case he's working on. In The Oslo Conspiracy,...
11) The kingdom
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
12) The devil's star
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Oslo is sweltering in the summer heat when a young woman is murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a pentagram--a five-pointed star--is found under her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a colleague he neither likes nor trusts. He believes Tom is behind a gang of arms smugglers--and the murder of his partner. But Harry, an off-the-rails alcoholic, is barely holding on...
13) The redbreast
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary Norway, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
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