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"Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group...
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It is only the beginning of May but in Oslo a brutal heat wave has coincided with an alarming increase in violent crime. In the latest instance, police investigator Hanne Wilhelmsen is sent to a macabre crime scene on the outskirts of town. An abandoned shed is covered in blood. On one wall an eight-digit number is written in blood. There is no body-nor any sign of a victim. Is it a kid's prank or foul play? Is it even human blood? As more bloody...
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Detective Harry Hole volume 3
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"Detective Harry Hole embarrassed the force, and for his sins he's been reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks. But while monitoring neo-Nazi activities in Oslo, Hole is inadvertently drawn into a mystery with deep roots in Norway's dark past, when members of the government willingly collaborated with Nazi Germany. More than sixty years later, this black mark won't wash away--and disgraced old soldiers who once survived a brutal Russian winter are...
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2013.
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When the director of a foster home outside Oslo is found murdered at her desk, the case goes to recently-promoted to chief inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen. The primary suspect is Olav, an unruly twelve-year-old boy who disappeared the same day the director was killed--and who had known conflicts with the woman. While police canvass the city for Olav, Hanne works with another detective to investigate the home's employees. But Hanne is hopeless at delegating,...
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Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 7
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2016.
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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.
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2008.
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Oslo police detectives Adam Stubo and his wife Johanne Vik, busy caring for their newborn, reluctantly join in the investigation of a serial killer who appears to be seeking retribution against celebrities--a case that reminds Johanne of one she worked on as an FBI agent and that she has tried to forget ever since.
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Henning Juul series volume 1
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2011.
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Traumatized and scarred by the fire that killed his son, Oslo crime reporter Henning Juul investigates the brutal murder of a local woman and becomes convinced that the case's chief suspect, a Pakistani native, is innocent.
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2016.
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"The main character in Asle Skredderberget's crime novels is Milo Cavalli. Half Norwegian and half Italian, he is definitely not your typical depressed Nordic noir investigator. In fact he's quite the opposite. Milo is successful and attractive AND extremely rich. He goes to confession. He worries about his friends and family. And he taps into his family fortune whenever he needs to in order to crack the case he's working on. In The Oslo Conspiracy,...
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