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Death Deserved

Death Deserved
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger, Jørn Lier Horst
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Police officer Alexander Blix and celebrity blogger Emma Ramm join forces to track down a serial killer with a thirst for attention and high-profile murders, in the first episode of a gripping new Nordic Noir series… Oslo, 2018. Former...

Dreaming in Norwegian

Dreaming in Norwegian
  • Author(s): Frankie Valente
  • Location(s): Norway, Shetland Islands
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Edvard Christiansen was only fifteen when he joined the Norwegian resistance. He took part in the Shetland Bus operation that helped people escape the Nazi occupation of Norway. Traumatised by his experiences, Edvard moved to Shetland after the war,...

Fear Not

Fear Not
  • Author(s): Anne Holt
  • Location(s): Bergen, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A drug addict dead in a basement, a young asylum seeker floating in the harbour, a high profile female bishop stabbed to death in the street. What is the connection? During a snowy Christmas season in Norway, criminal psychologist...

Headhunters

Headhunters
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Roger Brown has it all: Norway’s most successful headhunter, he is married to a beautiful gallery owner and owns a magnificent house. But he’s also a highly accomplished art thief. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to...

Inborn

Inborn
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger, Kari Dickson (Translator)
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime, In Translation, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

What turns a boy into a killer? When the high school in the small Norwegian village of Fredheim becomes a murder scene, the finger is soon pointed at seventeen-year-old Even. As the investigation closes in, social media is ablaze with...

Island Summers

Island Summers
  • Author(s): Tilly Culme-Seymour
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

‘My grandmother bought the island. The year was 1947 and she was thirty-three, a couple of years older than I am now. She was the visionary sort of person who can make something magical out of very little.’ From...

Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy

Kristin Lavransdatter Trilogy
  • Author(s): Sigrid Undset
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 14th Century

The books cover the life of Kristin from childhood to her death. All set in the superb landscape and manners of 14th Century Norway.

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly

Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
  • Author(s): Joanna Glen
  • Location(s): Northumberland, Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern day

On the tiny island of Rokesby, Addie helps her mother run a women’s retreat. Dreaming daily of escape, she consoles herself by swimming in the ocean that surrounds them. On the neighbouring island, joined to Rokesby by a bridge...

Norwegian by Night

Norwegian by Night
  • Author(s): Derek B Miller
  • Location(s): Norway, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Eighty-two years old, and recently widowed, Sheldon Horowitz has grudgingly moved to Oslo, with his grand-daughter and her Norwegian husband. An ex-Marine, he talks often to the ghosts of his past – the friends he lost in the Pacific...

Ordeal

Ordeal
  • Author(s): Jørn Lier Horst
  • Location(s): Kristiansand, Stavern
  • Genre(s): Noir
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Frank Mandt died after a fall down his basement steps, the same basement that holds a locked safe bolted to the floor. His granddaughter, Sofie Lund, inherits the house but wants nothing to do with his money. She believes...

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