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Death in Oslo

Death in Oslo
  • Author(s): Anne Holt
  • Location(s): Norway, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Can the US president really just disappear into thin air…? Helen Barclay, the first female of the United States, has been kidnapped on a state visit to Norway: it is up to the FBI and the Norwegian police to...

Faithless

Faithless
  • Author(s): Kjell Ola Dahl
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Oslo Detectives Book 7) When the body of a woman turns up in a dumpster, scalded and wrapped in plastic, Inspector Frank Frølich is shocked to discover that he knows her … and their recent meetings may hold the...

I’m Travelling Alone

I’m Travelling Alone
  • Author(s): Samuel Bjork
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the body of a young girl is found hanging from a tree, the only clue the police have is an airline tag around her neck. It reads ‘I’m travelling alone’. In response, police investigator Holger Munch is immediately...

Is Mother Dead

Is Mother Dead
  • Author(s): Vigdis Hjorth
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

To mother is to murder, or close enough’, thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She’s recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for a retrospective...

Smoke Screen

Smoke Screen
  • Author(s): Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Norway, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When the mother of a missing two-year-old girl is seriously injured in a suspected terrorist attack in Oslo, crime-fighting duo Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the case, and things aren’t adding up … The second instalment in...

The Assistant

The Assistant
  • Author(s): Kjell Ola Dahl
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Noir
  • Era(s): 1920s/30s

Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there’s a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the...

The Final Murder

The Final Murder
  • Author(s): Anne Holt
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A TV talk-show star is found killed in her home, her tongue removed and left near to the body. When a second body, that of a prominent politician, is found crucified soon after, Superintendent Adam Stubo is called in...

The Human Flies

The Human Flies
  • Author(s): Hans Olav Lahlum
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1960s

Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first...

The Leopard

The Leopard
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Detective, Harry Hole has gone MIA from the Oslo Crime Squad, as he is still bearing the scars (both emotionally and physically) from the last case – The Snowman – and is `taking a break’ in Hong Kong, where...

The Lover

The Lover
  • Author(s): Helene Flood, Alison McCullough (Translator)
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Thriller, In Translation
  • Era(s): contemporary

Is it worse to deceive to your husband or the police? Rikke is lying to them both. But how many lies can she get away with? When her upstairs neighbour Jørgen is found murdered, she’s questioned alongside her husband....

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