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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 found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seeming tranquillity is disturbed forever. Enter Inspector Sejer, a tough, no-nonsense policeman whose own life is tinged by sadness.

Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her 10th birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter.

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 doesn't take long for Inspector Sejer and his team to establish that he was the victim of a very violent killer. But the trail has gone cold.

Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two of them return. When the body of the third friend is discovered, Inspector Sejer is put in charge of the investigation. He is troubled by the apparent suicide and has an overwhelming sense that the surviving pair has something to hide.

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 guilt, Charlo attempts to rebuild his life. But the police are catching up with him, and Inspector Konrad Sejer has never lost a case yet.

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 that the policeman isn’t looking for a missing person. He is accusing Riktor of something totally unexpected. Riktor doesn’t have a clear conscience, but this is a crime he certainly didn’t commit.

A 12-year-old boy runs wildly into his local police station claiming to have seen Halldis Horn's brutally murdered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient and known town misfit, was sighted at the scene disappearing into the woods. The next morning the local bank is robbed at gunpoint. Making his escape the robber takes a hostage and flees and, once again, a suspect takes to the woods. As the felon's plans begin to fall apart he is, in contrast to his quiet hostage, rapidly losing his control and power.

Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow.

A woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. She lies there in terrified silence unable to move. The woman is an author and the man one of her prospective characters. So desperate is he to have his story told that he has resorted to breaking in to her house to make her tell it. She creates Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, who works in an art gallery. He lives a quiet, dutiful life, carefully designed to avoid surprise.

A mother and child are found brutally murdered in an old caravan on a remote piece of land. A bloody footprint is discovered at the scene, and Chief Inspector Sejer is called to investigate. Meanwhile another mother, dying of cancer, confesses to her 21-year-old son that he is adopted. The man who abandoned them, whom the boy has become obsessed with, is not his real father. Why do we lie to those closest to us?

One mild summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But when Lily steps outside she is paralysed with terror. The child is bathed in blood. Inspector Sejer is called to the hospital to meet the family. Mercifully, the baby is unharmed, but her parents are deeply shaken, and Sejer spends the evening trying to comprehend why anyone would carry out such a sinister prank.

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.

Konrad Sejer er tilbage! I Carmen Zita og døden er han yderst nærværende, ikke bare som den sindige og let melankolske efterforsker, men også som mennesket Konrad Sejer, som har sit at slås med. Helbredet er ikke, hvad det har været, og på væggen i stuen hænger billedet af hans elskede Elise, som han hver dag deler tanker med, og hunden Frank Robert, en kinesisk Shar-Pei, er altid ved hans side. Og hver aften afsluttes som vanlig med en whiskysjus og en enkelt cigaret.

Ikke mange kriminalforfattere synes at have så uhindret adgang til menneskets sorte sider som norske Karin Fossum. Det beviser hun igen i "Jeg kan se i mørke", som er beretningen om den mandlige sygeplejer Riktor, der arbejder på et plejehjem. Udadtil er han en pligtopfyldende, høflig person, som ingen kan sætte en finger på, selv om han er lidt "sær". Men indadtil er han plejeren fra Helvede.

Een nieuwe serie van de koningin van de Scandinavische crime. Broer en zus Aksel en Ellinor hebben een diepe afkeer van hun moeder, en kunnen zich maar moeilijk staande houden in het leven. Hun liefdeloze jeugd heeft duidelijke sporen achtergelaten. Aksel heeft weliswaar een baan als journalist bij een lokaal krantje, maar hij maakt zich grote zorgen over Ellinor, die recentelijk haar baan is verloren en verslaafd is aan drugs en alcohol. In een oude boerderij, in de buurt waar Aksel en Ellinor vroeger vaak kwamen, worden vier Poolse arbeiders na een gaslek dood aangetroffen in hun bed.

Gunder Jomann, en stilfærdig ungkarl omkring de halvtreds, har boet og arbejdet i den lille by Elverstad hele sit liv. Da han af sin søster Marie får en bog med billeder af verdens folkeslag, bliver han meget betaget af et foto af en smuk, indisk kvinde, og han beslutter at tage til Bombay for at finde sig en kone. Seks dage i træk spiser Gunder på en lille tandoori-restaurant i nærheden af hotellet - mest på grund af stedets servitrice. Han sidder og kigger på Poona, på hendes lange sorte fletning, hendes effektive bevægelser og venlige smil. Da Gunder to uger efter tager hjem til Norge er de gift.

Karin Fossum er en mester i at beskrive menneskeskæbner på en måde, så de kravler helt ind under huden på læseren. I "Varsleren" møder vi Johnny Beskow, som bor sammen med sin forhutlede, opgivende mor og kun har sin elskede bedstefar at holde sig til. Når han ikke er hos bedstefaren, er han imidlertid intet rart bekendtskab. Han har nemlig valgt en noget bizar måde at forvalte den lillebitte hjørne af indflydelse, han har på sin og andres tilværelse: Johnny elsker at gøre folk bange. Ikke bare en lille smule - de skal skræmmes fra vid og sans, de skal mindes om livets forgængelighed og lykkens lunefulde natur.

Yderst koncentreret og effektiv lille psykogyser, fortalt af den 38-årige lagerchef Jonas Eckel, der lever en lidt tilbagetrukket, meget regelmæssig og kontrolleret tilværelse, men som ikke har problemer med selvværdet. En dag gifter han sig med den lidt usikre, buttede Lilian Ask, men deres ægteskab kommer aldrig til at fungere. Jonas, der selv mener, at han forstår sin kone og kvinder i det hele taget, forstår i virkeligheden ikke andre end sig selv. Det gør ham imidlertid ikke blot til en kikset, afstumpet særling. Det gør ham dødsensfarlig.

Om aftenen, den 4. november, forsvinder 17-årige Jonna Moe sporløst og efterlader sine forældre Magnhild og Jon i vildrede. Ingen ved, om hun er gået frivilligt, og i så fald hvorhen, eller om hun er offer for en forbrydelse. Tiden går, og hver for sig og på hver sin måde kæmper forældrene med at overvinde tabet af datteren. Jon med mareridt og tavshed og Magnhild med hektisk foretagsomhed. Undervejs glider de så langt fra hinanden, at der ikke synes nogen vej tilbage, og de synes på randen til skilsmisse. Men så sker der noget ganske uventet.