Don Bartlett
1) Headhunters
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
2) White shadow
Author
Series
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"No-one can be alone on an island . . . But Ingrid is alone on Barr�y, the island that bears her name, and the war of her childhood has been replaced by a new, more terrible present: Norway is under the Nazi boot. When the bodies from a bombed battleship begin to wash up on the shore, Ingrid can't know that one will be alive, and warm enough to erase a lifetime of loneliness--nor can she imagine what suffering she will endure in protecting her lover,...
3) I refuse
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Language
English
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Description
Petterson weaves a tale of two men whose accidental meeting one morning recalls their boyhood thirty-five years ago. Back then, Tommy was separated from his sisters after he stood up to their abusive father. Jim was by Tommy's side through it all. But one winter night, a chance event on a frozen lake forever changed the balance of their friendship. Now Jim fishes alone on a bridge as Tommy drives by in a new Mercedes, and it's clear their fortunes...
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before Harry took on the neo-Nazi gangs of Oslo, before he met Rakel, before The Snowman tried to take everything he held dear, he went to Australia. Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a young Norwegian girl, who was working in a bar. Initially sidelined as an outsider, Harry becomes central to the Australian police investigation when they start to notice a number of unsolved rape and murder cases around the country....
5) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
265, 21 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Series
Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
519, 13 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Police Detective Harry Hole has made a terrible mistake. An embarrassment in the line of duty has pulled him off his usual beat. Reassigned to mundane surveillance tasks, he reluctantly agrees to monitor neo-Nazi activities in Oslo. But as Hole is drawn into an underground world of illegal gun trafficking, brutal beatings, and sexual extortions, he soon learns that he must act fast to prevent an international conspiracy from unfolding. rapped in the...
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Physical Desc
474, 24 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Harry's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch. He goes to dinner at her house and wakes up at home with no memory of the past twelve hours. The same morning the girl is found shot dead in her bed....
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is November in Oslo and the first snow of the year has fallen. Birte Becker comes home from work and praises the snowman her husband and son have made in the garden. But they haven’t made a snowman. As the family stand by the sitting room window looking out in amazement at the snowman, the son notices that it is facing the house. The black eyes are staring at the window. At them. Detective Inspector Harry Hole receives an anonymous letter signed...
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Harry Hole arrives in a steaming hot Bangkok. But it's work, not pleasure. The Norwegian ambassador 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...
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 6
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
571 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 10
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
435 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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. For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the center of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless...
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Series
Harry Hole volume 5
Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
452 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat—with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective Harry Hole is assigned the case with Tom Waaler, a hated colleague whom Harry believes is responsible for the murder of his partner. When another woman is reported missing five days later, and her severed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is Friday the thirteenth, and with the Norwegian capital enveloped in freezing cold, seventy-nine-year-old Reidar Folke Jesperson passes what will be the last day of his life. In the early hours of the following morning he is found stabbed to death in his shop, his naked body exposed in the shop's window, a red string tied round his neck, and three crosses and a number -- 195 -- written across his chest. Police officers Gunnarstranda and Frolich...
14) The last fix
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A recovering drug addict, Katrine Bratterud, is almost finished with her time in rehab. One evening, contemplating her success at the shore of a lake, she senses that she is not alone. The discovery of Katrine’s corpse the following day brings detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda onto the case and into a web of secrets and lies that stretches back generations.
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Series
Varg Veum volume 1
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
263 pages : map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
1998. Varg Veum sits by the hospital bedside of his long-term girlfriend Karin, whose life-threatening injuries provide a deeply painful reminder of the mistakes he's made. Investigating the seemingly innocent disappearance of a wind-farm inspector, Varg Veum is thrust into one of the most challenging cases of his career, riddled with conflicts, environmental terrorism, religious fanaticism, unsolved mysteries and dubious business ethics. Then, in...
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Series
Harry Hole volume 9
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
377 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong -- fleeing the traumas of life as a cop -- he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous...
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 8
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
517 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two women have been found dead in Oslo, each with bizarre puncture wounds that were caused from the inside of their mouths. Police are baffled, so they send homicide detective Kaja Solness to Hong Kong to track down the one man who they think can solve the case; former serial killer specialist Harry Hole. But Hole remains haunted from his memories of his last assignment, and has his own problems in Hong Kong that he must sort out before he can help...
18) Macbeth
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Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
446 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles 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...
19) The unseen
Author
Series
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Islanders are never afraid, if they were, they wouldn't be able to live here. Born on the island that bears her name, Ingrid Barr©ıy's world is circumscribed by storm- scoured rocks and the moods of the sea by which her family lives and dies. But her father dreams of a bridge, and her mother longs for her own childhood island, and Norway faces its own sea change: the advent of a modern world and its attendant unpredictability and violence. Brilliantly...
20) The son
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny’s been in prison for a dozen years, nearly half his life. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. They don’t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit — or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. Or that he’s serving time for other peoples’ crimes. Sonny took the first steps toward addiction...