Jo Nesbo
2) Headhunters
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Cockroaches comes a funny, dark, and twisted caper worthy of Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers—about an aspiring art thief and the target who’s about to destroy his life.
“If you don’t know Nesbø, it’s time to get with it.” —USA Today
Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and...
“If you don’t know Nesbø, it’s time to get with it.” —USA Today
Roger Brown is a corporate headhunter, and...
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Detective Harry Hole is on the trail of a diabolical serial killer terrorizing Oslo in another electrifying thriller in the Harry Hole series from the author of The Snowman.
"It's fascinating to watch this Norwegian author adapt our homegrown monster [the serial killer] to a foreign culture.... When things go wrong, Harry goes on a bender, but when he's on his game, no one is better than this obsessive detective. He systematically works his way through...
4) Macbeth
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Description
Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.
5) The leopard
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Inspector Harry Hole has retreated to Hong Kong, escaping the trauma of his last case in squalid opium dens, when two young women are found dead in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches a fever pitch. There are no clues, the police investigation is stalled, and Harry - the one man who might be able to help - cant́ be found.
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
Description
-- Don't miss Jo Nesbo's latest Harry Hole thriller, -- !
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Series
Blood on snow volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Description
-- Don't miss Jo Nesbo's new thriller, -- , coming soon!
10) Police
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 10
Pub. Date
2013
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Description
A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. Harry Hole, a police detective is asked to investigate and catch the killer.
11) The redeemer
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 6
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. A gunshot cuts through the music and the bitter cold: one of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate. Harry encounters true darkness: among the homeless junkies and Salvationists, eagerly awaiting a savior to...
12) The snowman
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
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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--and may be drawing in Hole personally and intentionally"--
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Series
Doctor Proctor's fart powder volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
14) The Night House
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
From the internationally best-selling author, a chilling fresh spin on the classic horror novel • When the voices call, don't answer.
“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths...
“In The Night House, the horror begins immediately. And it only keeps calling from there.”—Josh Malerman, New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box and Spin a Black Yarn
In the wake of his parents’ tragic deaths...
17) The Kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother Carl who couldnt wait to get out and escape his troubled past. Just like everyone else in town, Roy believed Carl was gone for good. But Carl has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the towns...
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Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Description
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • In the electrifying first installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. As he circles closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the murder.
The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Harry is free to offer...
The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Harry is free to offer...
Author
Series
Detective Harry Hole volume 7
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Description
The Snowman, Norwegian author Jo Nesb'̜s thriller, should please even the most die-hard Stieg Larsson fans. On the first day of snow, a child wakes up to find his mother has disappeared during the night. Outside, a snowman has appeared out of nowhere, the calling card of one of the most terrifying serial killers in recent fiction. A letter from the perpetrator draws Detective Hole further and further into the case, and together with his new partner,...
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Series
Harry Hole volume 9
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Harry returns to Oslo to prove that the son of his old love could never be a killer when he is arrested for murder.