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21) The assistant
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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 office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske, he and his assistant - his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers - begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity. But all is not what...
22) The thirst
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Harry Hole novel volume 11
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English
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In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesb?'s hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective--a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters--a murderer whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for a nemesis of his past.
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Gunnarstranda and Frolich novels volume 2
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English
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Detective Frank Frolich and Inspector Gunnarstranda investigate the mysterious murder of an elderly antique dealer which leads them to disturbing facts about the victim's past following the Nazi occupation of Norway.
24) Faithless
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"Oslo detectives Gunnarstranda and Frølich are back ... and this time, it's personal ... 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 clue to her murder. As he begins to look deeper into the tragic events surrounding her death, Frølich's colleague Gunnarstranda finds another body, and things take a more...
25) Almost autumn
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As autumn approaches Ilse Stern is thinking about her infatuation with Hermann Rød, and whether his determination to be a painter will interfere with their romance--but the reality of being Jewish in occupied Oslo is about to turn her whole world upside down, as the deportation of the Norwegian Jews begins.
26) The half brother
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At the end of World War II, twenty-year-old Vera is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that rape is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a talented boxer. Vera's young son, Barnum, forms a special but bizarre relationship with his half-brother, fraught with rivalry and dependence as well as love. "I should have been your father," Fred tells Barnum, "instead of the fool who says he is."
It is Barnum, who is now a screenwriter...
27) The last fix
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An intricate psychological thriller from the master of Norwegian crime writing. When the corpse of Katrine, a recovering drug addict, is discovered, an intricate plot is exposed, juxtaposing the self-delusion of drug addicts with the more complex self-delusions of the well-respected middle-class people treating them.
28) Nemesis
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Detective Harry Hole volume 4
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English
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Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.
29) Sister
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Suspended from duty, Detective Frolich is working as a private investigator, when his girlfriend's colleague asks for his help with a female asylum seeker, who the authorities are about to deport. She claims to have a sister in Norway, and fears that returning to her home country will mean instant death. Frolich quickly discovers the whereabouts of the young woman's sister, but things become increasingly complex when she denies having a sibling, and...
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Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 9
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English
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"When bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council's headquarters in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case in the ninth and penultimate installment of the award-winning series from Norway's bestselling crime writer Anne Holt--"the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction" (Jo Nesbo). On an early April afternoon, a bomb goes off in the Islamic Cooperation Council's offices in Oslo, killing twenty-three people. The Police and Security Service...
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Holger Munch and Mia Kruger volume 2
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English
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"The thrilling follow-up to Samuel Bjørk's internationally bestselling I'm Traveling Alone, which The Wall Street Journal calls "tense and smartly constructed." When a troubled teenager disappears from an orphanage and is found murdered, her body arranged on a bed of feathers, veteran investigator Holger Munch and his team are called into the case. Star investigator Mia Kruger, on temporary leave while she continues to struggle with her own demons,...
32) Beyond the truth
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Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 7
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English
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Investigating the Christmas-season murders of four people in the luxurious home of one of Oslo's wealthiest families, Norwegian Police Chief Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen risks everything to identify a mysterious victim and his reason for being among the others.
33) The fourth man
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Gunnarstranda and Frolich novels volume 1
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English
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In the course of a routine police raid, Detective Inspector Frank Frølich of the Oslo Police saves the life of Elizabeth Faremo, a dark-haired beauty with mysterious eyes who was inadvertently caught in the crossfire. Some weeks later, Frølich coincidentally runs into her again--but their ensuing affair is no accident. By the time he learns that she is no stranger--but rather the sister of a wanted member of a larceny gang--it is already too late....
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"A string of murders sucks the Oslo Detectives into a maelstrom of dark secrets in the latest from the master of Norwegian crime writing. Award-winning author K.O. Dahl has achieved international acclaim with his Oslo Detectives series featuring inspectors Frøhlich and Gunnarstranda. Now he presents the riveting fourth book in the series, combining rare psychological insight and elegant prose. Lethal Investments opens seven years prior to the case...
35) Hawaii, Oslo
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Film Movement volume year 4, film 1
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Norwegian
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Hawaii, Oslo is the story of a handful of desperate people whose paths cross on the hottest day of the year in Oslo. Frode and Milla have their first child, but learn he will not live long without an expensive operation they cannot afford. Bobbie-Pop is a faded singer who tries to commit suicide. Leon is an institutionalized mental patient, who hopes to keep a 10-year-old date on his birthday with his teenage sweetheart. Leon's brother, Trygve, gets...
38) Karaluchy
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Polish
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Wyjątkowe słuchowisko na podstawie bestsellerowej powieści-- gwiazdorska interpretacja, klimatyczna muzyka, a w tle prawdziwe odgłosy Bangkoku. W domu publicznym w stolicy Tajlandii znaleziono ciało norweskiego ambasadora. W Oslo pospiesznie tworzony jest plan uniknięcia skandalu. Policjant Harry Hole wsiada do samolotu skacowany z zastrzykami witaminy B12 i wkrótce zaczyna krążyć po zaułkach Bangkoku: wśród świątyń, palarni opium,...
40) Wybawiciel
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Polish
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'W zasypanym śniegiem Oslo inspektor Harry Hole ściga nieuchwytnego płatnego zabójcę z byłej Jugosławii. Przeczesuje środowiska narkomanów, dewiantów, członków Armii Zbawienia wyczekujących nowego zbawiciela, który ma ich wyzwolić od beznadziei życia - choćby przez śmierć. Inspektor Harry Hole to policyjny anarchista stosujący metody dalekie od procedur, nieprzystosowany do życia nałogowy palacz i alkoholik. Przed wyrzuceniem...