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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...

The Redbreast (Harry Hole 3)

The Redbreast (Harry Hole 3)
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

This is in fact No. 3 in the series, as Batman and Cockroaches (1 and 2)are not available in English. So it is here that the reader must start. Harry Hole follows up an idea about a deadly sniping...

Toxic

Toxic
  • Author(s): Helga Flatland
  • Location(s): Oslo, Telemark
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2020

When Mathilde is forced to leave her teaching job in Oslo after her relationship with eighteen-year-old Jacob is exposed, she flees to the countryside for a more authentic life. Her new home is a quiet cottage on the outskirts...

Ankomst

Ankomst
  • Author(s): Gøhril Gabrielsen
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

An environmental scientist has chosen to spend the winter on a remote peninsula in the far north of Norway in order to collect data on the activities of the seabird population. She is determined to prove a link between...

Calling out for you

Calling out for you
  • Author(s): Karim Fossum
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Gunder Jomann thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his bride arrives in Norway she vanishes. Then the town is shocked by the news...

Cursed

Cursed
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hedda Hellberg fails to return from a retreat in Italy, where she has recently been grieving for her dead father, her husband discovers that her life is tangled in mystery. Hedda never left Oslo, the retreat has no...

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