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Audrey Orr and the Robot Rage

Audrey Orr and the Robot Rage
  • Author(s): Jenny Moore
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): N/A

When Audrey Orr’s mum wins a luxury cruise to Norway, Audrey thinks she’s won the jackpot — until she realises it’s during term-time. With her no-nonsense headteacher, Mr Stickler, on her case, she has to resort to something a...

Bitter Flowers

Bitter Flowers
  • Author(s): Don Bartlett (translator), Gunnar Staalesen
  • Location(s): Bergen
  • Genre(s): Noir, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Varg Veum #8 PI Varg Veum has returned to duty following a stint in rehab, but his new composure and resolution are soon threatened when a challenging assignment arrives on his desk. A man is found dead in an...

Blind Goddess

Blind Goddess
  • Author(s): Anne Holt
  • Location(s): Norway, Oslo
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of central Oslo. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak. Five days later...

Blood on Snow

Blood on Snow
  • Author(s): Jo Nesbo
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you ‘fix’ people for a living – terminally – it’s hard to get close to anyone. Now he’s finally met the woman of his dreams. But there are two problems....

Burned

Burned
  • Author(s): Thomas Enger
  • Location(s): Oslo
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Brutalised Victim in the Wilds: A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She’s been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off....

Christmas Island

Christmas Island
  • Author(s): Natalie Normann
  • Location(s): Norway
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Cosy up in front of a fire and discover Christmas the Norwegian way…full of romance, cosy traditions and hygge! In the bleak midwinter… A really frosty wind is making Holly’s life absolutely miserable After all the years of hard...

Dálvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra

Dálvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra
  • Author(s): Laura Galloway
  • Location(s): Kautokeino
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sámi people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway’s wanderlust; an affair with a Sámi reindeer herder ultimately led her to leave New York for...

Dead Island

Dead Island
  • Author(s): Samuel Bjork
  • Location(s): Hitra
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She’d once come here to kill herself but now Mia Kruger has returned to the picturesque island of Hitra to escape from the violence and madness of her life as a police investigator. But when she is approached by...

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...

Dreamless

Dreamless
  • Author(s): Jorgen Brekke
  • Location(s): Trondheim
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered―her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar, but that no one...

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