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The Heart Keeper

The Heart Keeper
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

How do you mend a broken heart? It’s been three months since Alison Miller-Juul’s world fell apart when her six-year-old daughter, Amalie, died in an accident. Three months of sympathy cards, grief counselling and gritting her teeth, but it’s...

The Silent Resistance

The Silent Resistance
  • Author(s): Anna Normann
  • Location(s): Haugesund, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2

Occupied Norway, 1944. While the war rages on, Anni is surviving as best she can, contributing to the resistance whenever possible and standing firm without her sailor husband Lars, who she hasn’t heard from in three years. Her daughter...

The Therapist

The Therapist
  • Author(s): Helene Flood
  • Location(s): Norway, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At first it’s the lie that hurts. A voicemail from her husband tells Sara he’s arrived at the holiday cabin. Then a call from his friend confirms he never did. She tries to carry on as normal, teasing out...

1222

1222
  • Author(s): Anne Holt
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

An excellent book set in Norway. 1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains with night...

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst
  • Author(s): Anne Holt
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are being found covered with blood, but there is no victim. Only an odd series of numbers is left behind. When a girl is brutally raped in her apartment, Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen...

I Think We Should Kill Other People

I Think We Should Kill Other People
  • Author(s): L M Chilton
  • Location(s): Norway, South East England
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The nation watched them fall in love. Now someone’s watching them die. Hazel and Marc were paired together on revolutionary new reality TV show Love Synced, in which sophisticated AI matches hopeful lovers based on its perceptive algorithms. But...

The Woman in Cabin 10

The Woman in Cabin 10
  • Author(s): Ruth Ware
  • Location(s): Norwegian Fjords, The North Sea
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This was meant to be the perfect trip. The Northern Lights. A luxury press launch on a boutique cruise ship. A chance for travel journalist Lo Blackwood to recover from a traumatic break-in that has left her on the...

Don’t Look Back

Don’t Look Back
  • Author(s): Karin Fossum
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Crime

Sejer and Skarre carry out their investigations amongst the local community, when a well-liked teenager is killed.

A Woman in the Polar Night

A Woman in the Polar Night
  • Author(s): Christiane Ritter
  • Location(s): Arctic, Spitsbergen
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1930s

n 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance...

After She’d Gone

After She’d Gone
  • Author(s): Alex Dahl
  • Location(s): Italy, Russia, Sandefjord
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Unsettling, gripping and glamorous. A timely psychological thriller about the danger of beauty, the lure of power, and the fierce love of a mother for her son. Liv keeps a low profile in Sandefjord, Norway: she’s just another tired...

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