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At the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquility is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect façade.

Eva Magnus and her daughter are out walking by the river when a man's body floats to the water's surface. Eva goes to call the police, but when she reaches the phone, she dials another number altogether.

When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found in a meadow on the outskirts of town. None of the "good people of Elvestad" can believe that anyone among them would be capable of such a brutal murder. But in his quiet, formal way, Inspector Konrad Sejer understands that good people can commit atrocious deeds, and that no one is altogether innocent.

When the theft of a purse from a stroller results in an infant's death, two teenagers are in trouble. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing still another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters her house with his ever-reliable switchblade. Motionless in the dark, Zipp waits for his friend to come out.

Carmen and Nicolai failed to resuscitate their son, Tommy, after finding him floating in their backyard pond. When Inspector Skarre arrives on the scene, Carmen reports that Tommy, a healthy toddler with Down syndrome, wandered into the garden while Nicolai was working in the basement, and she was cleaning the house. Skarre senses something is off with Carmen's story and consults his trusted colleague, the famed Inspector Sejer. An autopsy reveals Tommy's lungs to be full of soap.

An "impressive" and "gripping" Scandinavian mystery from an author who "succeeds in evoking sympathy for all her characters . . . [in a] fair-play whodunit" (Publishers Weekly). Inspector Sejer is hard at work again, investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the...

Charlo Torp, a newly recovered gambler, makes his way through the slush to Harriet Krohn's apartment, flowers in hand. Determined to pay off his debts, Charlo plans to steal the old woman's antique silver collection. But he didn't expect her to put up a fight. The following morning, Inspector Sejer is called to the scene to investigate. Harriet is dead, her silver missing, and the only clue in the apartment is an abandoned bouquet. When Charlo sees the news, he knows he should be relieved, but he's heard of Sejer's amazing record—the detective has solved every case he's ever been assigned to.

Der unerklärliche Tod der jungen Annie löst in dem norwegischen Dorf Horgen tiefe Bestürzung aus. Doch zugleich scheinen die Bewohner ein dunkles Geheimnis zu bewahren. Sensibel zeichnet die norwegische Autorin Karin Fossum eine idyllische sommerliche Fjordlandschaft und erzählt von ihren oft so schwer durchschaubaren Bewohnern.

Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off toward town. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother starts to worry. She phones store owners, Ida's friends—anyone who could have seen her. But no one has. Suspicion immediately falls on Emil Mork, a local character who lives alone and hasn't spoken since childhood. His mother insists on cleaning his house weekly—although she's sometimes afraid of what she might find there.

Eva is walking by the river one afternoon when a body floats to the surface of the icy water. She tells her daughter to wait patiently while she calls the police, but when she reaches the phone box Eva dials another number altogether. The dead man, Egil, has been missing for months, and it...

"Es werden immer wir beide sein", sagte sie. "Egal wie es ausgeht, wir werden zu zweit sein. Also kannst du es mir versprechen? Dass sie bald tot sein wird?" Aksel ist als Lokaljournalist immer auf der Suche nach spannenden Geschichten. Ganz anders als seine Schwester Ellinor, die sich lieber der Realität entzieht. Doch trotz ihrer Unterschiede sind die Geschwister unzertrennlich. Was sie vereint? Der Hass auf die eigene Mutter, die ihre Kindheit zur Hölle machte. Anhand eines makabren Spiels haben die beiden gelernt, mit dem Trauma umzugehen.

A gruesome tableau awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the oppressive summer heat: a woman and a young boy lay dead in a pool of blood near a dank trailer. The motivation behind the deaths of Bonnie Hayden and her five-year-old son, Simon, is mysterious—there is no sign of robbery. Who would brutally stab a defenseless woman and her child? In a parallel story, another mother, Mass Malthe, navigates life with her adult son, Eddie. It's a relationship some would call too close, since Eddie's father, a man he obsesses over, abandoned them many years ago.

One summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood. The distraught parents rush to the hospital where they discover that she is unharmed. Inspector...

Eva Magnus, una joven pintora de escaso éxito, se encuentra a Maja, una vieja amiga, que intenta convencerla para que se gane la vida como prostituta y salde así sus deudas, cada día más acuciantes.

Zwei Tote werden in einer norwegischen Kleinstadt gefunden: Ein Mann am Flussufer, mit Messerstichen übersät, und eine Prostituierte, in ihrer Wohnung erwürgt. Kommisssar Konrad Sejer steht vor einem Rätsel: Zwei Verbrechen – scheinbar ohne Verbindung. Und niemand will etwas gesehen haben …. Die junge erfolglose Malerin Eva findet sich als alleinerziehende Mutter in zunehmender Bedrängnis. Ihrer kleinen Tochter kann sie kaum noch ein warmes Zuhause bieten. Da eröffnet ihr das Wiedersehen mit jemandem aus der Vergangenheit eine letzte Möglichkeit.

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But the sleepy village is like a pond through which not enough water runs - beneath the surface it is beginning to stagnate. When a naked body is...

In tiefster Nacht steht er plötzlich an den Betten seiner Opfer, zielt wortlos mit der Waffe auf sie. Doch wer darf leben, wer wird sterben? In einer norwegischen Kleinstadt geht die Angst um: Drei Menschen haben die Überfälle des Einbrechers, den man "Nachtläufer" nennt, überlebt – aber wie lange noch, bis der Erste stirbt? Kommissar Eddie Feber ist sicher, dass die mysteriösen Zahlenkombinationen an den Tatorten einen Hinweis darauf geben.

‘He'd just learnt to walk,’ she said. ‘He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone.’ A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother’s story. As...

Charlo Torp has problems. He’s grieving for his late wife, he’s lost his job, and gambling debts have alienated him from his teenage daughter. Desperate, his solution is to rob an elderly woman of her money and silverware. But Harriet Krohn fights back, and Charlo loses control. Wracked with...

Riktor doesn’t like the way the policeman comes straight into the house without knocking. He doesn’t like the arrogant way he observes his home.The policeman doesn’t tell him why he’s there, and Riktor doesn’t ask. Because he knows he’s guilty of a terrible crime. But it turns out...