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The Courier

The Courier
  • Author(s): Kjell Ola Dahl
  • Location(s): Oslo, Stockholm
  • Genre(s): Thriller

In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero, Gerhard...

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)

The Storm Sister (The Seven Sisters)
  • Author(s): Lucinda Riley
  • Location(s): Geneva, Germany, Greece, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s, Modern

Ally D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she...

The Sunlit Night

The Sunlit Night
  • Author(s): Rebecca Dinerstein
  • Location(s): Lofoten
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the beautiful, barren landscape of the Far North, under the ever-present midnight sun, Frances and Yasha are surprised to find refuge in each other. Their lives have been upended – Frances has fled heartbreak and claustrophobic Manhattan for...

We Shall Inherit The Wind

We Shall Inherit The Wind
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen, Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1990s

1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he’s made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust...

Where Roses Never Die

Where Roses Never Die
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Early 21st century looking back to 1977

September 1977. Mette Misvær, a three-year-old girl disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her tiny, close middle-class community in the tranquil suburb of Nordas is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Curtains twitch,...

Wolves in the Dark (Varg Veum)

Wolves in the Dark (Varg Veum)
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Reeling from the death of his great love, Karin, Varg Veum’s life has descended into a self-destructive spiral of alcohol, lust, grief and blackouts. When traces of child pornography are found on his computer, he’s accused of being part...

Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Oslo, Telemark
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Alone and isolated in a vast Scandinavian forest, a therapist begins to read her client’s novel manuscript, only to discover the main character is terrifyingly familiar…   You are her therapist. Kristina is a successful therapist in central Oslo....

Cold Hearts

Cold Hearts
  • Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

On a frosty January day in Bergen, Private Detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn’t been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she’d turned away a customer...

Nemesis (Harry Hole 4)

Nemesis (Harry Hole 4)
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is in fact No. 4 in the series, as Batman and Cockroaches (1 and 2)are not available in English. Harry Hole and his team are in a race against time to crack the identity of a violent bank...

The Boy at the Door

The Boy at the Door
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Sandefjord
  • Genre(s): Thriller, Suspense
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Unsettling, layered, bold, unpredictable, dark. EXCELLENT’ Will Dean, author of Dark Pines. What would you do for the perfect life? Would you lie? Would you cheat? Would you kill? Cecilia Wilborg has the perfect life. A handsome husband, two...

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