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1) The leopard
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After two women are found dead in Oslo, each with bizarre puncture wounds that were caused from the inside of their mouths, police are baffled, but homicide detective Kaja Solness is called to Hong Kong to track down a former serial killer specialist, Harry Hole, whom they hope can solve the case.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A dark, thrilling short-story collection about twisted minds and vengeful hearts, from a true master of suspense. A detective with a nose for jealousy is on the trail of a man suspected of murdering his twin; a bereaved father must decide whether vengeance has a place in the new world order after a pandemic brings about the collapse of society; a woman finally overcomes her intimacy issues through a dark encounter with her Peeping Tom neighbor; a...
3) The snowman
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Police investigator Harry Hole searches for a connection between suspicious letters he is receiving and the disappearance of Jonas's mother, along with a dozen other women, on the day of the first snowfall in Oslo.
5) The thirst
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters -- a murder whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for a nemesis of his past.
6) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Corporate headhunter Roger Brown is also a master art thief, and when he meets Clas Greve at an opening at his wife's art gallery and learns Clas has a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that has been lost since World War II, Roger believes he has stumbled upon the perfect heist, but when he breaks into Clas's apartment, he find's more than just the painting.
Author
Series
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.
9) Cockroaches
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by...
10) Knife
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant, audaciously rogue police officer, Harry Hole is back and in the throes of a new, unanticipated rage--once again hunting the murderer who has haunted his entire career. Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel--the only woman he's 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...
Author
Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Doctor Proctor, an inventor of bizarre things, uses his time-traveling bathtub to go back in time and fix some things, but when he cannot get back, Nilly and Lisa meet him in the past with some of the magical fart powder he invented.
13) Killing moon
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 13
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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 nothing...
16) The son
Author
Publisher
Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Serving time for crimes he did not commit in exchange for heroin payouts, Sonny Lofthus uses his spiritual charisma to navigate corrupt and violent elements in his life before learning disturbing truths about his police officer father's suicide.
17) The redeemer
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Oslo investigator Harry Hole tracks a killer who shot a Salvation Army singer at point-blank range and, as the killer gets desperate, Harry finds the investigation complicated by homeless junkies and Salvationists.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
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...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Harry Hole is on the trail of a diabolical serial killer terrorizing Oslo in another electrifying thriller in the Harry Hole series from the author of The Snowman. "It's fascinating to watch this Norwegian author adapt our homegrown monster [the serial killer] to a foreign culture.... When things go wrong, Harry goes on a bender, but when he's on his game, no one is better than this obsessive detective. He systematically works his way through...