Charlotte Barslund Livres

The author of the internationally best-selling Harry Hole series now gives us an electrifying stand-alone novel set amid Oslo's hierarchy of corruption, from which one very unusual young man is about to propel himself into a mission of brutal revenge. Sonny Lofthus, in his early thirties, has been in prison for the last dozen years: serving time for crimes he didn't commit. In exchange, he gets an uninterrupted supply of heroin—and the unexpected stream of fellow prisoners seeking out his uncanny abilities to soothe and absolve. His addiction started when his father committed suicide rather than be exposed as a corrupt cop, and now Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption: prison staff, police, lawyers, a desperate priest—all of them focused on keeping him stoned and jailed, and all of them under the thumb of Oslo's crime overlord, the Twin. When Sonny learns some long-hidden truths about his father he makes a brilliant escape, and begins hunting down the people responsible for the hideous crimes he's paid for. But he's also being hunted, by the Twin, the cops, and the only person who knows the ultimate truth that Sonny is seeking. The question is, what will he do when they've cornered him?

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.

Then he walked the long way into town to report his only child missing. This way her Dad had said, she'd never have to go to school; this way, she'd never have to leave her parents.

Alliant le folklore inuit, la politique arctique, l'histoire viking et un mystère troublant, La Fille sans peau est un thriller brutal. Lorsqu'un corps de viking momifié est découvert sur une banquise à Nuuk, au Groenland, le journaliste Matthew Cave est envoyé pour couvrir cette découverte extraordinaire. À son retour le lendemain, la momie a disparu et le corps du policier qui surveillait le site est retrouvé nu et écorché sur la glace, évoquant une série de meurtres non résolus survenus des années auparavant. N'ayant aucune confiance dans la police, Matthew n'ose faire confiance qu'à une jeune femme groenlandaise qui, à quinze ans, a été accusée d'avoir tué son père de la même manière choquante. Mads Peder Nordbo explore une nouvelle frontière dans le crime nordique, plaçant son récit dans la beauté inquiétante du Groenland, avec sa lumière éclatante, son épaisse brume, sa pluie battante et sa banquise cristalline.

Suspenseful and deeply human, The Dinosaur Feather is a classic of Scandinavian noir, from its richly imagined and deeply flawed characters to its scintillating exploration of one of the most fascinating aspects of contemporary dinosaur and avian research. Biology postgraduate and hopeful PhD Anna Bella Nor is just two weeks away from defending her thesis on the origin of birds when her supervisor, the arrogant and widely despised Lars Helland, is found dead in his office chair at the University of Copenhagen. In the man’s bloody lap is his tongue as well as a copy of Anna’s thesis. When the autopsy suggests that Helland may have been murdered in a fiendishly ingenious way, the brilliant but tormented young Police Superindendent Søren Marhauge begins the challenging task of unraveling the knotted skeins of personal and intellectual intrigue among the scientists at the university. Just as the case seems to be grinding to a halt, another of the scientists working with Helland is murdered. Unfortunately, everyone—from embittered single mom Anna Bella Nor to his own ex-wife, pregnant with her current husband’s child—has something to hide, presenting Marhauge with perhaps the most challenging case of his career.