Bjørk, Samuel
Summary: Winter 1999. An old man is driving home when his headlights catch an animal on the empty road up ahead. He stamps hard on the brakes. But it is not an animal at all. It is a young boy, frightened and alone, with a set of deer antlers strapped firmly to his head. Fourteen years later, a body is found in a mountain lake. Within weeks, three people have died. Each time, the killer has left a clue,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld Publishers 2018
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Summary: International bestseller Samuel Bjørk makes his US debut with a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer, and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime as I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive -- and shocking -- conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2016
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Summary: New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2010
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NESHolt, Anne
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLMytting, Lars
Summary: "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 movesto 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2020
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Summary: "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 nosign of robbery or assault. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? Sejer and his fellow investigator Jakob Skarre begin a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012
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Summary: "On Midsummer Eve in 1985, a young folklore researcher disappears from the village of Eidsborg in the Telemark region of Norway. Exactly thirty years later, the student Cecilie Wiborg goes missing. She too had been researching the old, pagan rituals associated with the 13th-century Eidsborg stave church. And then Knut Abrahamsen, a former police officer from the area, is found drowned in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006
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Summary: "When darkness falls, there's nowhere to hide. Four bodies have been discovered along Europe's riverbanks, placed with care-and completely drained of blood. Pinpricks on their throats indicate a slender murder weapon, but DNA found in the wounds suggests something far more sinister. Tasked with investigating, the FBI recruits Agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter to Blackbird, an international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2023
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Summary: Investigating the contract killing of a musician at the height of the Christmas season in Oslo, maverick detective Harry Hole discovers that the assassin killed the wrong person and is frantically searching for his target, a situation that leads to a race against time in the darkest corners of former Yugoslavia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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Summary: Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he's got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America's top spy has a decision to make--return, or submit his resignation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2011
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Summary: "On a wet, gray night in early November, Charlo Torp, a former gambler who's only recently kicked the habit, makes his way through the slush to Harriet Krohn's apartment, flowers in his hand. Certain that paying off his debt is the only path to starting a new life and winning his daughter Julie's forgiveness, Charlo plans to rob the wealthy old woman's antique silver collection. What he doesn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
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Summary: "The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna--an outsider, looking for work, who takes him fishing and smokes a pipe. Soon the two fall in love and marry, and Nesje begins to dream of a prosperous future. But prosperity is hard to come by. Some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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Summary: Follows the experiences of travelers in Norway whose train is derailed 1,222 meters above sea level. They are stranded by a blizzard in a decrepit hotel where one of their number begins killing off the rest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2011
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Summary: Oslo, 1970s. Olav, an extremely talented "fixer" whose unexpected capacity for love is as far-reaching as his talent for murder, works for Oslo's crime kingpin, "fixing" anyone who causes him trouble. But it's becoming clear to Olav that the more you know about your boss's business, the more your boss might want you fixed yourself, especially if you've fallen in love with his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2019
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Summary: After two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood, Inspector Harry Hole is compelled to return to Norway to see his dying father and to investigate the brutal crime, which may be the work of a serial killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012