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Author
Series
Valhalla saga ; 1
Publisher
Jo Fletcher
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Pausing at the Viking town of Stenvik, Ulfar Thormodsson is forced to confront a band of deadly men at the same time King Olav's march on Stenvik is met by a host of raiders under the leadership of a mysterious woman from the north." --
84) August
Author
Publisher
Coward-McCann, Inc
Pub. Date
1931.
Language
English
Description
Allegorical presentation of American industrialism in Europe. Translated from the Norwegian.
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"An American woman wakes up alone in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She has no map, no compass, and no food. How she ended up there, and the tragic details of her life, emerge over the course of this novel. We discover that Jane is a novelist with a bad case of writer's block -- she had come to Norway to seek out distant relatives and family history, but when her trip went awry, she...
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Language
English
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Description
"In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant:...
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Language
English
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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...
88) Becoming Leidah
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An utterly gripping love story set in 19th-century Norway, about a woman rescued from the sea, the fisherman who marries her, their tiny and unusually gifted daughter, and the shapeshifter who follows their every move, perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey and Neil Gaiman."--
Author
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The first murder was only the spark ...1970. Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen, known as K2, witnesses a young woman desperately trying to board a train only to have the doors close before her face. The next time he sees her, she is dead..." --
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"L'Inconnue is a young woman lost in turbulent Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century. Amund is a Norwegian toymaker and father to two young children in the 1950s. Anouk is a contemporary Canadian suffering from cystic fibrosis, a medical condition that leaves her constantly fighting for air, swimming through the boundary between life and death as she awaits a lung transplant that could save her life. The way their stories intersect takes us...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a new, electrifying stand-alone thriller set in Oslo in the 1970s: the story of an unusually complicated contract killer--the perfectly sympathetic antihero--that is, as well, an edgy, almost lyrical meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder. He works for Oslo's...
93) The kingdom
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in; his little brother Carl couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. When Carl returns with a new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface. Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town's sordid history. Roy and Carl are survivors, and no strangers to violence. But as...
94) Dina's book
Author
Publisher
Arcade Pub
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The story of a tempestuous woman married off at an early age to an old man. When he abruptly dies, she takes over his estate and begins bending people to her will. The setting is 19th century Norway.
Author
Publisher
Harvill Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Psychological researcher Igi Heitmann investigates the hit-and-run death of her father, a former policeman working as a PI in Oslo. Among his papers she finds a butterfly pennant with the name of a woman, goes to see her and discovers her murdered body.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When a popular celebrity chef is found murdered on the steps of the Oslo police headquarters, police investigator Billy T. and long-absent Hanne Wilhelmsen team up for an investigation that reveals that few people really knew the victim or his mysterious activities." --
