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- Location(s): India, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
- Era(s): early 2000s
When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Jo Nesbo, author of the number one bestselling Harry Hole series, is back with a tense and atmospheric thriller about two brothers bound together by dark secrets. When Roy and Carl’s parents die suddenly, sixteen-year-old Roy is left as...
- Location(s): Svalbard, Norway
- Genre(s): Children, Fiction
- Era(s): N/A
Imagine making friends with a polar bear… The Last Bear is perfect for readers of 8+, beautifully illustrated throughout by Levi Pinfold – winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal and illustrator of Harry Potter 20th anniversary edition covers. “This...
- Location(s): Svalbard, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1937-1938 as well as 1947
THE LAST WHALER is an elegiac meditation on the will to survive under extreme conditions. Tor, a beluga whaler, and his wife, Astrid, a botanist specializing in Arctic flora, are stranded during the dark season of 1937-38 at his...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
Detective, Harry Hole has gone MIA from the Oslo Crime Squad, as he is still bearing the scars (both emotionally and physically) from the last case – The Snowman – and is `taking a break’ in Hong Kong, where...
- Location(s): Nordland
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region in the Norwegian Arctic; a remote valley that stretches...
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
- Era(s): contemporary
Is it worse to deceive to your husband or the police? Rikke is lying to them both. But how many lies can she get away with? When her upstairs neighbour Jørgen is found murdered, she’s questioned alongside her husband....
The Man Who Plundered the City
- Location(s): Oslo
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): early 1900s
When a series of audacious thefts take place in the city of Christiania (current-day Oslo), Detective Asbjørn Krag must deal with a master criminal who has his measure – or does he? From the dark brickyards on the city’s...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1618
For readers of Circe and The Handmaid’s Tale, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies is a story about a love that could prove as dangerous as it is powerful. Winter, 1617. The sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø...
- Location(s): Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The town is important because it is a port that serves a large coal mine. Colonel Lanser, the head of the invading battalion,...
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