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Red Carpet
Helle StensbakA battle for money and position is quaking beneath the surface at Norsefish, the nation’s largest fishing group. But the resulting boardroom wrangling is overtaken by raw…
Unhallowed Ground
Agnes Lovise MatreDuring some garden work in the village of Øystese, the remains of a teenager are found buried in the earth – those of a young boy who was never reported missing. The subsequent…
The Zeta Virus
Øystein BogenAs a young computer genius, Misha Borodin is forced into Russia’s most secret intelligence agency, where he is tasked with developing viruses that will infiltrate and destroy…
The Devil in the Details
Chris TvedtA Polish man’s throat is cut in a sports centre in Bergen. The Danish contract killer who committed the murder is quickly arrested, but only a few days later he is found dead in…
Hour of the Wolf
Geir TangenA fourteen-year-old girl is found hanging in the woods. It soon becomes clear that she has been taking part in an online game spreading among the city’s youth – a game in which…
A Tiny Ethical Misstep
Julie S. WerenskioldFreelance journalist Svala is a little too fond of champagne and late nights out on the town, and a little too lax when it comes to keeping tabs on her finances. On a flight…
The Scorpion Brooch
H.K. FauskangerThe year is 1909, and Oskar Prods Brattenschlag has recently been employed as assistant at the Norwegian Embassy in London. On his way to buy a birthday present for his wife Ada,…
2020. Post festum
Gunnar Staalesen2020. Post festum is a stand-alone continuation of Gunnar Staalesen’s sweeping trilogy of novels about Bergen and Norway in the twentieth century. The last twenty years include…
Now the Night has it All
Jørgen BrekkeOn 23 October 2012, 15-year-old Liv Hassel is murdered in a copse in sleepy Horten while her parents are in Mexico. Vegar Johnsen, three years her senior, is found guilty of the…
Brønnøya
Stein SørensenReality-TV star Maria Ruge is murdered during a party on the island of Brønnøya off Oslo, and ophthalmologist and billionaire’s heir Jon Holm Matsen apparently becomes an…
Blue Storm
Ørjan N. KarlssonIn fear of being left standing alone, Norway invites all of NATO's 29 heads of state to a summit in Oslo. The goal is to show Russia that the alliance stands united – that One for…
The One Who Loves You Most
Kristine Storli HenningsenAfter a number of grim years, Fie and her young family move to a Spanish mountain village to find peace. While her husband Simon works on ships in the North Sea, Fie and her son…
Ice Cold
Agnes Lovise MatreAt 5 o’clock in the morning, the sound from the whistle on the M/F Utne echoes between the mountains in Hardanger. Norseman Xtreme, the world’s toughest and decidedly coldest…
Extenuating Circumstances
Chris TvedtOne night, Mikael Brenne is woken by the telephone – the caller is Nina Sunde, one of his clients. There’s an intruder in her house, and she fears for her life. Mikael jumps into…
Wolves at the Door
Gunnar StaalesenOne dark winter night, while out working on an assignment, a car hurtles toward Varg Veum at full speed. After he just barely escapes, he thinks about two death notices he’d read…
What the Dead Know
Marit ReiersgårdThe doctor Tom Ross reports his wife Marion missing while they are visiting her childhood friend in Spain. The couple needed to get away after their teenage son was found dead in…
The State of the Evidence
Chris TvedtEver since then, Magnus Sandtorv has been confined to the maximum-security unit of a psychiatric hospital in Bergen. He is considered psychotic and dangerous, and has threatened…
In the Face of Death
Bjørn BottolvsOne evening before Christmas, the policeman Jo Kaasa and his partner, Kaisa Riitta Sara, find a nude male corpse in a boathouse by Lake Bogstad, at the furthest western edge of…
The Last Safe Deposit Box
Ulrik HøisætherChief Inspector Frans Nansen is put on the case. He is a single dad with exceedingly unhealthy eating habits: Trying to fill out the aching gap that his wife’s death tore in his…
Dead Man's Tango
Geir TangenJournalist Viljar Ravn Gudmundsson and police investigator Lotte Skeisvoll find themselves in their worst nightmare. The sleepy city of Haugesund in Western Norway is torn out of…
Aquarius
Merete JunkerKattis lives on the seamier side of life in Porsgrunn, her days spent procuring pills and alcohol and finding forgotten places where she can keep warm and sleep off the effects of…
Naked Truth
Agnes Lovise MatreEveryone looks after each other in the small, idyllic village community of Øystese in Hardanger, but what happens the day the idyll fractures and one of their own does the…
Big Sister
Gunnar StaalesenVarg Veum receives a surprising visit at his office from a woman he has never met before. She presents herself as his half-sister. The woman has an assignment for Veum. Her…
Paradise Hill
Marit ReiersgårdAlmost 25 years have passed since Camilla Carlsen was found murdered in the small grove halfway up Paradise Hill. The case was never solved and the Drammen police are now making…