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2013., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Hole series Volume: 2Summary Note: Detective Harry Hole arrives in steaming hot Bangkok to investigate the death of the Norwegian ambassador who has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and no witnesses have come forward. The ambassador had close ties to the Norwegian prime minister, and to avoid a scandal Harry is sent there to hush up the case. But he quickly discovers that there is much more going on behind the scenes and very few people willing to talk. When Harry lays hands on some CCTV footage that will help him unravel what happened that night, things only get more complicated. The man who gave him the tape goes missing, and Harry realises that failing to solve a murder case is by no means the only danger in Bangkok.
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2009, c2003., Vintage Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Detective and mystery stories. A young woman is murdered in her Oslo flat. One finger has been severed from her left hand, and behind her eyelid is secreted a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five-pointed star - a pentagram, the devil's star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with his long-time adversary Tom Waaler and initially wants no part in it. But Harry is already on notice to quit the force and is left with little alternative but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work. A wave of similar murders is on the horizon. An emerging pattern suggests that Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and the five-pointed devil's star is key to solving the riddle.
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2011., Adult, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and he's a master of his profession. But one career simply can't support his luxurious lifestyle and his wife's fledgling art gallery. At an art opening one night he meets Clas Greve, who is not only the perfect candidate for a major CEO job, but also, perhaps, the answer to his financial woes: Greve just so happens to mention that he owns a priceless Peter Paul Rubens painting that's been lost since World War II - and Roger Brown just so happens to dabble in art theft. But when he breaks into Greve's apartment, he finds more than just the painting. And Clas Greve may turn out to be the worst thing that's ever happened to Roger Brown.
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2021., Vintage Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother Carl who couldn’t wait to get out and escape his troubled past. Just like everyone else in town, Roy believed Carl was gone for good. But Carl has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the town’s past come under new scrutiny. Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town’s sordid history. But Roy and Carl are survivors, and no strangers to violence. Roy has always protected his younger brother. As the body count rises, though, Roy’s loyalty to family is tested. And then Roy finds himself inextricably drawn to Carl’s wife, Shannon, an attraction that will have devastating consequences. Roy’s world is coming apart and soon there will be no turning back. He’ll be forced to choose between his own flesh and blood and a future he had never dared to believe possible.
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c2011., Adult, Vintage Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Hole mysteries Volume: 6Summary Note: "Two women are found murdered in Oslo - both of them have drowned in their own blood. What mystifies the police is that the puncture wounds in the victims' faces have been caused from the inside of their mouths. Kaja Solness from Homicide is sent to Hong Kong to track down a man who is the Oslo Police Department's only specialist on serial killings. The severely addicted detective has tried to disappear in the vast, anonymous city. He is on the run and haunted by his last case, the woman he loves, and creditors alike. His name is Harry Hole."--Fantastic Fiction website.
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2018., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Hogarth Shakespeare.Summary Note: Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom -- a master of manipulation named Hecate -- has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way. Hecate's plot hinges on steadily, insidiously manipulating Inspector Macbeth: the head of SWAT and a man already susceptible to violent and paranoid tendencies. What follows is an unputdownable story of love and guilt, political ambition, and greed for more, exploring the darkest corners of human nature, and the aspirations of the criminal mind.
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[2015]., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In a remote corner of Norway - a mountain town so far north the sun never sets - a man is running for his life in the sequel to bestseller Jo Nesbo's Blood on Snow. Jon is on the run. he has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman.Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect.Hiding out in a shepherd's cabin in the wilderness, all that stands between him and his fate are Lea, a bereaved mother, and her son, Knut.But while Lea provides him with a rifle and Knut brings essential supplies, the midnight sun is slowly driving Jon to insanity.And then he discovers that The Fisherman's men are getting closer...
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Penguin Random House Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance. No one believes him when he says the telephone booth out by the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like something out of a horror movie. No one, that is, except Karen, a beguiling fellow outsider who encourages Richard to pursue clues the police refuse to investigate. He traces the number that Tom prank-called from the phone booth to an abandoned house in the Black Mirror Wood. There he catches a glimpse of a terrifying face in the window. And then the voices begin to whisper in his ear . . . You know who I am. She’s going to burn. The one you love is going to burn. There’s not a thing you can do about it. When another classmate disappears, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence—and preserve his sanity—as he grapples with the dark magic that is possessing Ballantyne and pursuing his destruction. Then again, Richard may not be the most reliable narrator of his own story . . .
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2013., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: MYS Fic Nes Edition: First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Hole Mysteries Volume: 9Summary Note: 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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2012, c2011., Adult, Random House Canada Edition: eBook ed. Series Title: Harry Hole Volume: 9Summary Note: Summer. A boy, Gusto, is lying on the floor of an Oslo apartment. He is bleeding and will soon die. He is trying to make sense of what has happened. In order to place his life and death in some kind of context he begins to tell his story. Former police detective Harry Hole returns to Oslo after 3 years abroad. He wants to investigate this death but the case has already been closed. It's the start of a solitary investigation of the most impossible case in Harry Hole's life.
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2012, c2011., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Hole Volume: 9Summary Note: Summer. A boy, Gusto, is lying on the floor of an Oslo apartment. He is bleeding and will soon die. He is trying to make sense of what has happened. In order to place his life and death in some kind of context he begins to tell his story. Former police detective Harry Hole returns to Oslo after 3 years abroad. He wants to investigate this death but the case has already been closed. It's the start of a solitary investigation of the most impossible case in Harry Hole's life.
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c2013., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Hole mysteries Volume: 10Summary Note: A serial killer starts murdering Oslo's police officers and not even Harry Hole is safe. Several police officers are found murdered at the scene of an old and unsolved murder case that they were involved in investigating. The killings are extremely brutal and bestial. The police have no leads. What's more, they're missing their best investigator. A severely wounded man in a coma is kept alive at a hospital in Oslo. The room is guarded by the police and the identity of the patient is kept secret.
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2011., Adult, Vintage Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Edition: Vintage Canada Edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Harry Hole mysteries Volume: 7Summary Note: "The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure; a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom window. Around its neck is his mother's pink scarf. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menancing letter he received some months earlier. As Harry and his team delve into unsolved case files, they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. When a second woman disappears Harry's suspicions are confirmed: he is a pawn in a deadly game. For the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his turf, a killer who will dirve him to the brink of insanity."--Back cover.
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2014., Adult, Random House Canada Call No: MYS Fic Nes Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sonny Lofthus, a charismatic young prisoner and heroin addict serving time for other people's crimes, breaks out of jail after learning a long-hidden secret about his father's death and seeks revenge on those who lied to him.
