Yrsa Sigurðardóttir4.5 An abandoned yacht, a young family missing - chilling crime from the queen of Nordic Noir.
The most chilling novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir, an international bestseller at the height of her powers.
'Mummy dead.' The child's pure treble was uncomfortably clear. It was the last thing Brynjar - and doubtless the others - wanted to hear at that moment. 'Daddy dead.' It got worse. 'Adda dead. Bygga dead.' The child sighed and clutched her grandmother's leg. 'All dead.'
A luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbour with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who were on board when it left Lisbon?
Thora Gudmundsdottir is hired by the young father's parents to investigate, and is soon drawn deeper into the mystery. What should she make of the rumours saying that the vessel was cursed, especially given that when she boards the yacht she thinks she sees one of the missing twins? Where is Karitas, the glamorous young wife of the yacht's former owner? And whose is the body that has washed up further along the shore?
Кати Хиеккапелто3.7 В приморском финском городке, где под внешним благополучием скрывается целый ворох социальных и частных проблем, на беговой дорожке находят тело девушки: ее застрелили в упор из дробовика. Анна Фекете, молодая следовательница венгерского происхождения, отправляется на место преступления. Это ее первый день в отделе убийств. И как будто окровавленного трупа недостаточно, ей достается худший из всех возможных напарников – расист и пьяница Эско. Анна быстро понимает, что легким дело не будет: у главного подозреваемого – железное алиби. А у полиции на руках нет ничего, кроме одной-единственной зацепки: найденного у жертвы странного амулета с изображением ацтекского бога-колибри.
Йорн Лиер Хорст3.8 Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of NorwayOCOs most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified he is suspended from duty. It looks like a man has been wrongly convicted, and suddenly the media are baying for blood. Wisting, who has spent his life hunting criminals, is now the hunted."
Erlendur works nights. He’s a young officer in Traffic, not yet a detective. And Reykjavik’s nights are full of car crashes, robberies, drinkers and fighters. Sometimes an unexplained death.
THE LOST
A homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes. Both cases go cold.
THE SEARCHER
Two lost people from two different worlds. Erlendur is not an investigator, but his instincts tell him their fates are worth pursuing. How could they be linked?
IN THE HEART OF THE NIGHT
Inexorably, he is drawn into the blackness of the city’s underbelly, where everyone is in the dark or on the run.
Ханс Улав Лалум0.0 This is the first mystery in the hugely compelling, bestselling Norwegian crime series. Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered. The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first it is difficult to imagine who could have wanted him dead. But as Detective Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen (known as K2) begins to investigate, it seems clear that the murderer could only be one of Olesen's fellow tenants in the building. Soon, with the help of Patricia - a brilliant young woman confined to a wheelchair following a terrible accident - K2 will begin to untangle the web of lies surrounding Olesen's neighbours; each of whom, it seems, had their own reasons for wanting Olesen dead. Their interviews, together with new and perplexing clues, will lead K2 and Patricia to dark events that took place during the Second World War...This gripping, evocative and ingenious mystery - the first in a series featuring K2 and Patricia - pays homage to the great Agatha Christie and will plunge readers into Norwegian history, and into a world of deceit and betrayal, revenge and the very darkest murder.
Leif GW Persson0.0 15 augusti 2007 och måttet är rågat för Lars Martin Johansson, chef för rikskriminalen. Han tänker klara upp Palme-mordet. Tidpunkten för preskription ligger inte alltför långt bort, och hans egen pensionering kryper närmare. Vad vore bättre än att kröna karriären med en lösning av detta fall?
I hemlighet samlar han de vassaste medarbetarna, förnekar i media att en ny utredning inletts och tillsammans börjar de med fräscha ögon gå igenom det enormt omfattande utredningsmaterialet. Christer Pettersson är inte Palme-mördaren. Det slår man fast snabbt.
Ett nytt överraskande spår växer istället fram, sakta men säkert. Men om spåret är det rätta -- går sanningen att offentliggöra?
Faller fritt som i en dröm är den avslutande delen i trilogin som inleddes med de enorma framgångarna Mellan sommarens längtan och vinterns köld och En annan tid, ett annat liv.
