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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.
2) Knife
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 12
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Harry Hole is working cold cases, but he is more worried about the rapist and murderer, Svein Finne, who will soon be out of prison, and when he wakes up from a drunken blackout with blood on his hands, it marks the start of a waking nightmare.
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 11
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Police--the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø'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"--
5) The leopard
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
At the end of his previous thriller, The Snowman, Jo Nesbo's Inspector Harry Hole was a ravaged mess. At the start of The Leopard, we find Hole hiding away from the world, smoking opium in the squalor of Hong Kong's back alleys. A pretty young police officer drags him reluctantly back to Norway to pursue another serial killer, this one more twisted and vicious than the Snowman.
6) The snowman
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
This New York Times bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures starring Michael Fassbender. Inspector Harry Hole is tested to the very limits of his sanity by a killer with a strange signature: a snowman. One night, after the year's first snowfall, a boy named Jonas wakes up and discovers that his mother has disappeared. Only one trace of her remains: a pink scarf, his Christmas gift to her, now worn by the snowman that...
7) Killing moon
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again. And exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone -- fired from the force, drinking himself to oblivion in Los Angeles. It seems that...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2010, c2005
Language
English
Description
Alcoholic detective Harry Hole has two missions: catch a serial killer obsessed with the number five, who cuts a finger off each victim and adorns her with a red pentagram; and expose his crooked partner, Tom Waaler.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
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....
10) Cockroaches
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Hole is sent from Oslo to steaming hot Bangkok after the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a seedy motel room. As he wanders the streets lined with go-go bars, temples, opium dens, and tourist traps, Harry discovers that the ambassador's family is hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing to talk.
11) Police
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 10
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The police urgently need Harry Hole . . . A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can't help. For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the center of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless...
Author
Series
Gunnarstranda and Frolich novels volume Prequel
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"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 Frøich 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...
13) The Redeemer
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole--the Oslo Police Department's best investigator and worst civil servant--has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry's troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate,...
Author
Series
Holger Munch and Mia Kruger volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Holger Munch and Mia Kruger volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree and dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is a sign that says "I'm traveling alone." A special homicide unit in Oslo re-opens with veteran...
16) Knife
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 12
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel -- the only woman he has ever loved -- has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police but it's in the cold case office, when what he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison -- free, and Harry is certain,...
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