Don Bartlett
1) I refuse
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[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 changes 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 have reversed....
2) The snowman
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 7
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In Oslo, after the first snow of the season has fallen, a woman disappears, and a sinister snowman is left in her wake. As irascible detective Harry Hole realizes that this is only one of multiple disappearances, he begins to think a serial killer may be at work.
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and invests all of himself in his writing. But his efforts get the opposite effect - he wants it so much that he gets writer's block. At the same time, he sees his friends, one-by-one, publish their debuts. He suspects that he will never get anything published. Book Five is also a book about strong new friendships and a shattering love affair. Then one day Karl Ove reaches two crucial points in his...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties; his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid has nightmares about crocodiles and still wets his bed at night, but slowly he begins to understand the world around him. Vivid images accompany each new event: A photo of his mother as a young woman makes him cry as he realizes how time passes, and the black car that comes to collect his father...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The provocative, audacious, brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel that has unquestionably been the main event of contemporary European literature. It has earned favorable comparisons to its obvious literary forebears "A la recherche du temps perdu" and "Mein Kampf" but has been celebrated as the rare magnum opus that is intensely, addictively readable.
8) Headhunters
Author
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Roger Brown is a headhunter and art thief living beyond his means and when he meets Clas Greve, a corporate candidate who reveals that he owns a priceless Rubens painting, Roger breaks into his apartment, initiating a series of events which puts Roger's life in danger.
9) Police
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 10
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Harry Hole seemingly has his hands tied when the police seek his help in finding a killer who his offing Oslo cops whose cases are unsolved.
10) Phantom
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 9
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Determined to prove the innocence of a young man he helped raise, disgraced former cop Harry Hole embarks on an increasingly dangerous investigation linked to Oslo's most virulent street drug.
11) The Redeemer
Author
Series
Harry Hole novel volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the contract killing of a musician at the height of the Christmas season in Oslo, maverick detective Harry Hole discovers that the assassin killed the wrong person and is frantically searching for his target, a situation that leads to a race against time in the darkest corners of former Yugoslavia.
12) Cockroaches
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls. Surrounded by...
13) Cold hearts
Author
Series
[Varg Veum series] volume 15
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On a frosty January day in Bergen, Norway, private investigator Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn't been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she'd turned away a customer and returned to the neighbourhood in terror. Shortly after taking the case, Veum is confronted with a brutal, uneasy reality. He soon finds the first body--and it won't be the last. His investigation...
14) The redbreast
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary Norway, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.
15) Nemesis
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Oslo Police Detective Harry Hole is assigned to investigate a series of bank robberies of unparalleled savagery while at the same time absolving himself of the murder of his former girlfriend in a criminal investigation led by his longtime adversary Tom Waaler and Waaler's vigilante police force.
Author
Series
[Varg Veum series] volume 17
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mette Misvaer, a three-year-old girl, disappears without trace from the sandpit outside her home. Her family and community is devastated, but their enquiries and the police produce nothing. Almost 25 years later, Mette's mother approaches PI Varg Veum, in a last, desperate attempt to find out what happened to her daughter. As Veum starts to dig, he uncovers an intricate web of secrets.
Author
Series
[Varg Veum series] volume 16
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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...
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The full scope and achievement of Karl Ove Knausgaards monumental work is evident in this final installment of his My Struggle series. Grappling directly with the consequences of Knausgaards transgressive blurring of public and private, Book 6 is a troubling and engrossing look into the mind of one of the most exciting artists of our time. Knausgaard includes a long essay on Hitler and Mein Kampf, particularly relevant (if not prescient)...
19) The Bat
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.
20) The leopard
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After two young women are found dead, both drowned in their own blood, Inspector Harry Hole is compelled to return to Norway to see his dying father and to investigate the brutal crime, which may be the work of a serial killer.