Anne Bruce
Author
Series
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2017
Description
In 2001, three year old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina's mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina's father Jonas is convicted of her murder. In 2016, the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that the father might have been wrongly convicted. Holme and Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric...
Author
Series
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2021
Description
When former high-powered lawyer turned PI Selma Falck is shot and her oldest friend, a junior MP, is killed in a sniper attack, everyone - including the police - assume that Selma was the prime target. But when two other people with connections to the MP are also found murdered, it becomes clear that there is a wider conspiracy at play. As Selma sets out to avenge her friend's death, and discover the truth behind the conspiracy, her own life is threatened...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Wisting is back with his most gripping case yet. In 1999, 17-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work. Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder. But 20 years later William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests the wrong man was convicted for Tone's death and the real murderer is still out there, and could kill again....
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2022
Description
When a severed head is found on a stake in the quiet town of Larvik, Police Inspector William Wisting is called in to investigate. As the media closes in on the biggest story of the year, Wisting's journalist daughter Line receives a tip. Soon, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than anyone thought. A criminal network has lodged itself deep into the roots of the city, and it's up to Wisting to take down the elusive and dangerous Night...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2020
Description
After four years behind bars, notorious serial killer Thomas Kerr is ready to talk. And Chief Inspector William Wisting has been waiting to listen. Kerr has finally agreed to lead the police to his final victim's grave. But the expedition goes horribly wrong after his escape deep in the Norwegian forest. Wisting must launch a frantic search to find this cold-blooded killer before he strikes again. But the body of another woman, killed weeks before,...
Author
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved. The woman he has lost forever. Yet when Frei's young cousin goes missing off the Norwegian coast and Thorkild is called in by the family to help find him, dead or alive, Thorkild cannot refuse. He owes them this. Tormented by his past, Thorkild soon...
Author
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband Martin and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code he was never able to crack. And visits the husband he was never able to help.But now Martin Haugen is missing too. As Wisting prepares to investigate another...
Author
Series
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2017
Description
On a summers day, Johanne Vik arrives at the home of her friends Jon and Ellen Mohr ready to celebrate their young son's birthday. What greets Johanne on her arrival is a scene of devastation: the boy has climbed a ladder and fallen to his death. Simultaneously, Oslo is under attack. An explosion has torn the city apart and the eyes of the police department are focused elsewhere. A newly qualified officer named Henrik Holme is the only one available...
9) Snow fall
Author
Publisher
Penguin Michael Joseph
Pub. Date
2023
Description
William Wisting is contacted by the leader of an online group dedicated to solving the murder of the Australian backpacker Ruby Thompson. But when one of the members, Astria, claims she's close to solving the mystery, she goes offline, and no one in the group has heard from her since. Wisting is sent to investigate and soon finds himself in a case where nothing is as it seems.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Disgraced, damaged former police officer Thorkild Aske has stopped taking his painkillers after his last experience searching for the missing in northern Norway. Wracked by withdrawal and desperate for work, he reluctantly agrees to investigate the disappearance of two schoolgirls for bestselling crime writer Milla Lind - but he soon discovers that Lind's interest in the case is not, as she claims, simply research for her latest novel. When Thorkild...
11) The cabin
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
It's been fifteen years since Simon Meier walked out of his house, never to be seen again. And just one day since politician Bernard Clausen was found dead at his cabin on the Norwegian coast. When Chief Inspector William Wisting is asked to investigate he soon discovers he may have found the key to solving Meier's disappearance. But doing so means he must work with an old adversary to piece together what really happened all those years ago. It's...
12) Offline
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen volume 9
Pub. Date
2017
Description
It has been eleven years since Hanne Wilhelmsen's life was forever changed by an assault that left her wheelchair bound. Now, Hanne's self-imposed exile is nearing its end. When Oslo comes under attack from Islamic extremists in a series of explosions, the city is left reeling. A militant group claim responsibility, but the Norwegian police force doubt the authenticity of the declaration, and the group's very existence. The unfolding drama is brought...
13) No echo
Author
Series
Hanne Wilhelmsen volume 6
Pub. Date
2016
Description
When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police headquarters it sends a shockwave through the city's in-crowd. Police investigator Billy T. takes on the case, but is met with conflicting information about what kind of man Ziegler was. It seems nobody really knew the him - including his glamorous wife, the restaurant co-owner and the editor of his memoir. While Billy T. struggles to break the case, Hanne...
14) Beyond the truth
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Shortly before Christmas, Hanne Wilhelmsen is called to investigate a mass killing. Four people are found shot dead at the luxury home of the wealthy Stahlberg family: shipping merchants and notorious for family disputes and lawsuits. Three of the dead are members of the family, and the fourth victim a seeming nobody. A bottle of champagne had been opened but not drank. What was the cause for celebration?
15) Death deserved
Author
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrom never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, 'Always Number One'. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrom's home later that day, she finds the door unlocked and signs of a struggle inside. A bib with the number 'one' has been pinned to the TV. Police officer Alexander Blix is appointed to head up the missing-persons investigation, but he still bears the emotional scars...