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    Police
    The Solitaire Mystery
    We, The Drowned
    The Redbreast
    The Son
    The snowman
    • The snowman

      • 550 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOVIE STARRING MICHAEL FASSBENDER OVER 33 MILLION BOOKS SOLD WORLDWIDE The first snow will come. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother's favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman. And then he will appear again. As Harry Hole and his team begin their investigation they discover that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. And when the snow is gone... When a second woman disappears it seems that Harry's worst suspicions are confirmed: for the first time in his career Harry finds himself confronted with a serial killer operating on his home turf. ...he will have taken someone else.

      The snowman
      4.5
    • SONNY'S ON THE RUN Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins. HE'S BEEN LIED TO HIS WHOLE LIFE But then one prisoner's confession changes everything. He knows something about Sonny's disgraced father. SONNY WANTS REVENGE He needs to break out of prison and make those responsible pay for their crimes. WHATEVER THE COST

      The Son
      4.5
    • The Redbreast

      • 656 pages
      • 23 hours of reading

      Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy. 'A page-turner you won't want to put down' Time Out Harry knows he shouldn't get involved. A report of a rare and unusual gun - a type favoured by assassins - being smuggled into the country sparks Detective Harry Hole's interest. Evil is closer to home than he knows. Then a former WW2 Nazi sympathizer is found with his throat cut. Next, someone close to Harry is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night she was killed? As Harry's investigation unfolds, it becomes clear that the killer is hell-bent on serving his own justice. And while the link between the cases remains a mystery, one thing is certain: he must be stopped. But can Harry stop him in time? *JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 55 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE* *Watch out for KILLING MOON, the new Jo Nesbo book, out now*

      The Redbreast
      4.3
    • We, The Drowned

      • 704 pages
      • 25 hours of reading

      In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Spanning four generations, two world wars and a hundred years, We, The Drowned is an epic tale of adventure, ruthlessness and passion.

      We, The Drowned
      4.3
    • Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to `find' herself) and the story begins when father and son set off on a trip to Greece, where she now lives, to try to persuade her to come home. En route, in Switzerland, Hans Thomas is given a magnifying glass by a dwarf at a petrol station, and the next day he finds a tiny book in his bread roll which can only be read with a magnifying glass. How did the book come to be there? Why does the dwarf keep showing up? It is all very perplexing and Hans Thomas has enough to cope with, with the daunting prospect of seeing his mother. Now his journey has turned into an encounter with the unfathomable...or does it all have a logical explanation?

      The Solitaire Mystery
      4.3
    • Police

      • 628 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      The police urgently need Harry Hole A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can't help anyone For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can't protect anyone. Least of all himself.

      Police
      4.2
    • The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.

      My Struggle. Book One
      4.2
    • Boyhood Island

      • 496 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      An irresistible story of childhood adventure from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard. * Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now * Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. In the now infamously direct style of the My Struggle cycle, Knausgaard describes a time in which victories and defeats are felt keenly and every attempt at self-definition is frustrated. This is a book about family, memory and how we never become quite what we set out to be. 'Knausgaard finds the sublime in the everyday... Boyhood Island reverberates with the joys and anxieties of early youth, and Knausgaard brilliantly recreates their exaggerated feel' Times Literary Supplement

      Boyhood Island
      4.1
    • 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 devils 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 devils star is key to solving the riddle.

      The Devil's Star
      4.1
    • "One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole and his team have little to work with: no immediate suspect, no weapon and no motive. But when the assassin discovers he has shot the wrong man, Harry Hole's troubles have only just begun. After some exceptionally shrewd detective work, the team begins to close in on a suspected hit man, monitoring his credit card, false passport and the line to his employer. With no money, only six bullets and no place to stay in the bitter cold, the hit man becomes increasingly desperate. He will stop at nothing to eliminate his target. Moving at a breathless pace, The Redeemer is Jo Nesb 's most gripping thriller yet. This is the sixth book in the Harry Hole series."

      The Redeemer
      4.0
    • Harry is on a special mission Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. The Norwegian ambassador has been found dead in a seedy motel room, and Harry has been sent to investigate. It's clear that the Ambassador's family are hiding some secrets of their own, but few people are willing to talk. He needs to solve a crime and avoid a scandal When Harry lays hands on some incriminating CCTV footage, 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 that faces the unwary. But in an unfamiliar city, who can you trust?

      Cockroaches
      3.8
    • Kryminały z klasą - 1: Pierwszy śnieg

      • 286 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      W Osle napadł pierwszy śnieg. Jonas rano wstaje i odkrywa, że jego matka zniknęła. Pozostaje po niej tylko jedna wskazówka – różowy szal, który jej podarował na Boże Narodzenie. Ma go na szyi bałwan. W poprzednią noc niespodziewanie pojawił się na podwórku, a jego czarne oczy patrzą prosto w dom. Sprawę bada inspektor Harry Hole, który niedawno otrzymał tajemniczy list podpisany Snehuliak. Sytuacja staje się jeszcze bardziej skomplikowana, gdy Harry odkrywa, że ten schemat się powtarza – w ciągu ostatnich dziesięciu lat zniknęło jedenaście kobiet, zawsze dokładnie w dniu, gdy spadł pierwszy śnieg. Dochodzenie jest dla Harry'ego tym trudniejsze, że dotyczy jego nowej koleżanki, a także ukochanej Rachel. Sprawa Snehuliaka doprowadza go na skraj szaleństwa. Brilantnie wykreowane postacie i narastające napięcie są gwarancją emocjonującej opowieści, jaką potrafi napisać tylko mistrz współczesnych thrillerów Jo Nesbø.

      Kryminały z klasą - 1: Pierwszy śnieg
      3.5
    • Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.

      The Bat
      3.5
    • Martwe księżniczki nie śnią

      • 351 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      John Hilling jest świadkiem dotkliwego pobicia prostytutki. Stając w jej obronie doznaje obrażeń. Nieoczekiwanie z pomocą przychodzi mu były żołnierz, który od dłuższego czasu obserwuje kopenhaskie środowisko nielegalnych imigrantek. Wspólnie starają się odkryć prawdę o mrocznym życiu prostytutek. Zagłębiają się w niebezpieczny świat handlu żywym towarem, gangsterów, nieuczciwych biznesmenów i skorumpowanych policjantów. Od tej pory nie są już bezpieczni... Nikt nie jest bezpieczny…

      Martwe księżniczki nie śnią
    • Ślad Zbrodni: Policja

      • 472 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Czy to zwykły zbieg okoliczności, że oficer policji zostaje znaleziony martwy w miejscu dawno popełnionej zbrodni, którą badał, ale jej nie wyjaśnił? Gdy w następnych miesiącach taki sam los spotyka kolejnych dwóch funkcjonariuszy, schemat postępowania mordercy staje się równie oczywisty, co potworny: brutalnym zabójstwom policjantów odpowiadają nierozwiązane zbrodnie z przeszłości. W miejscu przestępstw brakuje jakichkolwiek śladów, a wydział zabójstw właśnie stracił najlepszego śledczego. W tym samym czasie w szpitalu leży w śpiączce ciężko ranny mężczyzna. Pilnuje go sztab policjantów, a jego tożsamość jest objęta ścisłą tajemnicą.

      Ślad Zbrodni: Policja