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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...

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,...

Escape to the Northern Lights

Escape to the Northern Lights
  • Author(s): Carrie Walker
  • Location(s): Norwegian Fjords
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

High-powered lawyer Sara thought she had life figured out – until her whirlwind marriage ends in divorce, her dream promotion slips away and a burnout diagnosis forces her to take a break. Desperate for a reset, she books a...

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...

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