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1) Phantom
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 9
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Determined to prove the innocence of a young man he helped raise, disgraced former cop Harry Hole embarks on an increasingly dangerous investigation linked to Oslo's most virulent street drug.
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A locked-room mystery set in an isolated hotel in Norway, where travelers stranded during a snowstorm start turning up dead. Retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen, wheelchair-bound after being paralysed by a bullet lodged in her spine, has no desire to get involved, but her curiosity and natural talent for observation force her to take an interest before panic takes over.
5) What is mine
Author
Series
Vik and Stubo series volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
New adventures await Doctor Proctor, Lisa, and Nilly as they try to protect Oslo, Norway, from invading aliens, enormous snakes in the sewers, seven-legged Peruvian sucking spiders, and sinister waffle irons.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"War rages, and, under cover of darkness, Rumi Orlstad and her fellow resistance fighters smuggle British agents, fugitives and supplies across the North Sea into Nazi-occupied territory. One night, when he braves a storm to complete an ill-fated mission, Rumi's fianč is lost to the dangerous waters. Broken-hearted, she withdraws from the clandestine group, vowing never to let her loved ones put themselves in the line of fire again. But months later,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Konrad Sejer must face down his memories and fears as he struggles to determine why the corpses of troubled young men keep surfacing in local lakes. As Sejer begins to feel his age weigh on him, he wonders if he has the strength to pursue the elusive explanations for human evil.
Author
Series
Sister bells trilogy volume 2
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1903, at the new church in Butangen, Norway, Pastor Kai Schweigaard becomes obsessed with finding an ancient tapestry woven by conjoined sisters in the hopes that it will bring him redemption, leading him to a young hunter living in the mountains"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A girl with recurring memory loss chases down the boy she loves based on the one memory she is able to hold onto.
For the past seven years Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the tumor was removed from her brain at the age of ten. Then when she kisses Drake, her best friend's boyfriend, the night before he leaves town, this one memory breaks through Flora's fractured mind and sticks. She's...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Cecilia Wilborg has it all - a loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a gorgeous home in the affluent Norwegian town of Sandefjord. And she works hard to keep it all together. Too hard. Because one mistake from her past could bring it all crashing down around her. Annika Lucasson lives a dark life with her abusive, drug-dealing boyfriend. She's lost everything one too many times and now she's got one last chance to save herself, thanks to Cecilia....
17) Septology
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
What makes us who we are? And why do we lead one life and not another? Asle, an aging painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway, is reminiscing about his life. His only friends are his neighbor, Åsleik, a traditional fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in the city. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter but lonely and consumed by alcohol. Asle and Asle are doppelgängers--two versions of...
18) Hell fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank camper. The details of the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son Simon are mysterious. There is no sign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jakob Skarre begin a hunt for the killer that will eventually lead them to...
Author
Series
Sister bells trilogy volume 1
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave church,...
20) The last joy
Author
Series
Wanderer trilogy (Knut Hamsun) volume 3
Publisher
Green Integer
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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