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Where Monsters Dwell

Where Monsters Dwell
  • Author(s): Jorgen Brekke
  • Location(s): Trondheim, Richmond (VA)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the...

Will and Testament

Will and Testament
  • Author(s): Vigdis Hjorth, Charlotte Barslund (translator)
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
  • Era(s): Modern

TRANSLATED BY CHARLOTTE BARSLUND Four siblings. Two summer houses. One terrible secret. When a dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family she fled twenty years before. Her mother and...

Winter Stories

Winter Stories
  • Author(s): Ingvild Rishøi, Diane Oatley (Translator)
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Short Stories, In Translation
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Winter Stories, we meet a teenager on the run from social services with her younger half-sister and half-brother in tow, a young single mother struggling to provide adequately for her daughter, and an ex-convict striving to overcome personal...

Wolves at the Door

Wolves at the Door
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Don Bartlett (translator)
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Varg Veum #19 One dark January night a car drives at high speed towards PI Varg Veum, and comes very close to killing him. Veum is certain this is no accident, following so soon after the deaths of two...

Zero

Zero
  • Author(s): Gine Cornelia Pedersen
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Zero finds its young, female protagonist constantly torn between hope and despair, rage and confusion, as she tries to find her place in and, eventually, far outwith, society.

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