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Polar Nights

Polar Nights
  • Author(s): Simon Hacker
  • Location(s): Kyle of Tongue and Ben Hope, Sutherland, Svalbard
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Hitching a ride on a rogue iceberg, a polar bear washes up on the north coast of Scotland and immediately causes havoc in a small fishing community. Intent on the media scoop of the decade, TV journalist Rebecca Riposte...

Professor Andersen’s Night

Professor Andersen’s Night
  • Author(s): Dag Solstad
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across...

See You Tomorrow

See You Tomorrow
  • Author(s): Tore Renberg
  • Location(s): Stavanger
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Pal has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much more than he can ever hope to pay back on his modest salary as a civil servant. He s desperate that nobody finds out especially not...

Stigma

Stigma
  • Author(s): Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Osen, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Blix & Ramm Book 4) Incarcerated in a Norwegian high-security prison, a broken Alexander Blix joins forces with Emma Ramm to find a ruthless killer who has escaped from a German jail. Pulse-pounding Nordic Noir. Alexander Blix is a...

The Devil’s Star (Harry Hole 5)

The Devil’s Star (Harry Hole 5)
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime

This is in fact No. 5 in the series, as Batman and Cockroaches (1 and 2)are not available in English. Redbreast is the first for English readers and Nemesis the second, and it is helpful to read them in...

The Hike

The Hike
  • Author(s): Lucy Clarke
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Wish you were here? Think again . . . Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history, adventures, old secrets. And now, bound by murder. They lace up their hiking boots for the adventure of a lifetime...

The Last Boat Home

The Last Boat Home
  • Author(s): Dea Brovig (Dea Brøvig)
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s and 2009

On the wind-swept southern coast of Norway, sixteen-year-old Else is out on the icy sea, dragging her oars through the waves while, above her, storm clouds are gathering. Surrounded by mountains, snow and white-capped water, she looks across the...

The Seven Doors

The Seven Doors
  • Author(s): Agnes Ravatn
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller

When the tenant of a house that university professor Nina owns with her doctor husband goes missing after an uncomfortable visit, Nina starts her own investigation … with deeply disturbing results. The long-awaited new thriller from the bestselling author...

Unhinged

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

When police investigator Sofia Kovic uncovers a startling connection between several Oslo murder cases, she attempts to contact her closest superior, Alexander Blix before involving anyone else in the department. But before Blix has time to return her call,...

Victim

Victim
  • Author(s): Jørn Lier Horst, Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

uried sins Brutal revenge… Two years ago, Alexander Blix was the lead investigator in a missing person’s case where a young mother, Elisabeth Eie, was kidnapped. The case was never solved. Blix’s career in law enforcement is now over,...

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