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Orenda Books
Language:
English
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"Oslo, New Year's Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert. Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Smeplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten ten years earlier ... and never found. Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate...
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Publisher:
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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Only three houses away from the policeman's home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months.
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Sandstone Press Ltd
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Stavern 1983: Christmas is approaching, snow is falling heavily, and a young ambitious policeman named William Wisting has just become the father of twins. After a brutal robbery he is edged off the investigation by more experienced officers, but soon he is on another case that is not only unsolved but has not even been recognised as murder. Forgotten in a dilapidated barn stands a bullet riddled old car, and it looks as if the driver did not get...

4. Stigma

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Publisher:
Orenda Books
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Incarcerated in a Norwegian high - security prison, a broken Alexander Blix joins forces with Emma Ramm to find a ruthless killer who has escaped from a German jail. Pulse - pounding Nordic Noir Alexander Blix is a broken man. Convicted for avenging his daughter's death, he is now being held in one of Norway's high-security prisons. Inside, the other prisoners take every opportunity to challenge and humiliate the former police investigator. On the...

5. Victim

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Publisher:
Orenda Books
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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‘ The new novel by the stellar Norwegian crime-writing duo Jorn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger ... tense, brutal and fast-moving' Sunday Times Book of the Month Two years ago, Alexander Blix was the lead investigator in a missing person' s case where a young mother, Elisabeth Eie, had been kidnapped. The case came to a standstill when Blix' s own daughter was killed and he was arrested for avenging her. Blix is a now free man again, but Elisabeth'...
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Orenda Books
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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"Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrøm'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...
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Publisher:
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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"Together with her one year old daughter Maja, single mother Sofie Lund moves into the house she inherited from her grandfather. Sofie has such painful memories that she has had every trace of the old man removed, every trace but a locked safe that has been bolted to the basement floor. Inside the safe, Sofie finds something shocking that will also become crucial evidence in a case that has plagued Inspector William Wisting for a long time. To follow...
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Publisher:
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Book cover for "Unhinged".
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Publisher:
Orenda Books
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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When a police investigator is killed execution-style and Blix's own daughter is targeted by the killer, he makes a dangerous decision, which could cost him everything. Blix & Ramm are back in a breathless, emotive thriller by two of Norway's finest crime When police investigator Sofia Kovic uncovers a startling connection between several Oslo murder cases, she attempts to contact her closest superior, Alexander Blix before involving anyone else in...
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Publisher:
Orenda Books
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrøm '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...
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Publisher:
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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"Ove Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but, when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars. Next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, but the desperation he sees in this latest murder is...
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Publisher:
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
Norwegian
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A Norwegian senior police detective leads an investigation of a serial killer.
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Publisher:
Sundance Now
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
Norwegian
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5 stars
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"In Season 2, when a notorious serial killer and his mysterious accomplice escape the police, Detective William Wisting races to stop the killers before more lives are lost. In Season 3, FBI agent Maggie Griffin returns to assist Wisting with the investigation of the brutal murder of an asylum seeker"--Container.