Norwegian Thriller

She has spent her career composing songs that put traumatized children to sleep. Now she must compose one that wakes the truth. Sera Halvorsen is the world's foremost lullaby architect. From her converted lighthouse on the Norwegian coast, she builds bespoke melodies for children too broken to sleep, scoring their nightmares into silence with the precision of a surgeon. She has not composed for adults since the night her own daughter stopped breathing. When a hand-delivered letter arrives from August Tegné, scion of a private maritime dynasty, Sera accepts a commission to write a lullaby ...

In this Crime Writers Association John Creasey Dagger Award winner and Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined. Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient...

International bestseller Samuel Bjork makes his US debut, a chilling and fast-paced thriller in which two detectives must hunt down a vengeful killer--and uncover the secret that ties each of them to the crime A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a...

Brought to you by Penguin. *DETECTIVE HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING MICHAEL FASSBENDER 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...

A heart-pounding psychological thriller from bestseller Nina Manning One woman's past could cost her everything... Frankie Keegan is struggling. While she tries to make strides in her career, life at home is slowly unravelling as she is haunted by the secrets of her past. Someone else remembers...

Sheldon Horowitz - 82 years old, impatient, and unreasonable - is staying with his granddaughter's family in Norway when he disappears with a stranger's child. Sheldon is an ex-Marine, and he feels responsible for his son's death in Vietnam. Recently widowed and bereft, he talks to the ghosts of his past constantly. To Norway's cops, Sheldon is just an old man who is coming undone at the end of a long and hard life. But Sheldon is clear in his own mind.

Brought to you by Penguin. *DETECTIVE HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* 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...

Brought to you by Penguin. *DETECTIVE HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* In the depths of winter a killer stalks the city streets. Two women are found drowned in their own blood. A third woman is hanged from a diving board. YOU ARE ALLOWING THIS KILLING TO GO ON. The crime scenes offer...

Brought to you by Penguin. *DETECTIVE HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* 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...

Editorial Review Deep inside an isolated Norwegian valley, unexplained lights drift silently across the frozen darkness while terrified witnesses report impossible reflections, missing time, and voices coming through dead radios. As police chief Henrik Solberg uncovers buried Cold War tunnels hidden beneath Hessdalen, the phenomenon begins learning faces, rewriting memories, and appearing inside photographs taken decades apart, forcing an entire town toward psychological collapse. Combining documented paranormal investigation, institutional dread, emotional tragedy, and unforgettable calm ...

Brought to you by Penguin. *DETECTIVE HOLE IS NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* Harry can't trust his own memory. A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12 hours...

She lost him once. She chose him twice. At any cost. In a remote Norwegian fjord, a secluded wellness sanctuary offers an exclusive identity reconstruction program. It promises the broken and grieving a chance to rebuild their lives — and the people they’ve lost. For one woman, the program is deeply personal. It offers the chance to bring back the man she loved. But as she submits to the sanctuary’s methods, her memories begin to shift and fracture. Truths unravel. The line between reality and reconstruction blurs until she can no longer trust what is real — or who she is becoming. ...

Brought to you by Penguin. *DETECTIVE HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* 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...

For a seemingly perfect family, a single word will change everything in this edge‑of‑your‑seat thriller for fans of The Silent Patient and The Whisper Man. It's early summer in Stockholm. Agneta and Stellan Broman have just waved off their daughters and grandchildren when the landline...

Brought to you by Penguin *A STUNNING NEW STANDALONE THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING HARRY HOLE SERIES* In the far north of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied...

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...

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Roger Brown has it all. He's the country's most successful headhunter. He has a beautiful wife and a magnificent house. And to maintain this lifestyle, he's also a highly accomplished art thief. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is Greve the perfect candidate...

When Norwegian immigrant Amalie stepped off the train in South Dakota, she carried nothing but a wooden trunk and the desperate hope that marriage to a stranger would save her from a life of poverty. Four years later, she has everything she never dared dream of: 1000 acres of prosperous farmland, livestock, and security. But when her husband’s wandering eye settles on young Anna Bekk, Amalie faces a familiar threat: being discarded, unwanted, erased. She’s been a burden before. She won’t be one again. On the frontier, survival demands hard choices. And Amalie has always been practical.

Brought to you by Penguin. *DETECTIVE HOLE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES* Harry can't trust his own memory. A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes up with no memory of the past 12...