Jorn Lier Horst

"Ove Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but, when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars. Next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, but the desperation he sees in this latest murder is something new. Against his wishes his daughter Line decides to stay in one of the summer cottages at the mouth of the fjord. Wisting's unease does not diminish when they discover several more corpses on the deserted archipelago. Meanwhile, dead birds are dropping from the sky" --

Closed for Winter

"Meet Chief Inspector William Wisting, an experienced policeman who is familiar with the dark side of human nature. He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world" -- Publisher's website.

William Wisting #1

Dregs

Jakthundene

Dix-sept ans après son incarcération pour l’enlèvement et le meurtre de la jeune Cecilia Linde, Rudolf Haglund retrouve la liberté... Et son nouvel avocat affirme être en mesure de démontrer que Haglund a été condamné sur la base de preuves falsifiées. William Wisting, à l’époque jeune policier en charge de l’enquête, est devenu une figure exemplaire et respectée, incarnant l’intégrité et les valeurs d’une institution souvent mise à mal dans l’opinion publique. Au cœur d’un scandale médiatique et judiciaire, suspendu de ses fonctions, Wisting décide de reprendre un à un les éléments du dossier. Les policiers auraient-ils succombé au syndrome des "chiens de chasse", suivant la première piste que leur indique leur instinct, au risque d’en négliger d’autres, et s’acharnant à étayer leurs soupçons pour prouver la culpabilité supposée de leur "proie" ? Ou l’enquête aurait-elle été manipulée ? Mais par qui, et dans quel but ?

Les chiens de chasse

L'usurpateur

Only three houses away from the policeman’s home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months. There are no indications that anything criminal has taken place. Viggo Hansen was a man nobody ever noticed, even though he lived in the midst of a close-knit community. His death doesn’t hit the headlines, but there is something about the case that catches the attention of William Wisting’s journalist daughter, Line, and she decides to write a newspaper article with a different twist for the festive season: the portrait of a completely anonymous and obscure person whose death goes unremarked and unmourned.

The Caveman

Katharina Code The

A letter from the dead could solve Wisting's coldest case. Stavern 1983: Christmas is approaching and an ambitious young policeman named William Wisting has just become the father of twins. Edged off a robbery investigation by more experienced officers, he is soon on a less prestigious case. In a dilapidated barn stands a forgotten, bullet-riddled car. How long has it been there and what happened to the driver? This is the case that shaped William Wisting as a policeman, with a resolution thirty-three years in the future â ]

When It Grows Dark (16pt Large Print Edition)

Only three houses away from the policeman's home, a man has been sitting dead in front of his television set for four months. There are no indications that anything criminal has taken place. Viggo Hansen was a man nobody ever noticed, even though he lived in the midst of a close-knit community. His death doesn't hit the headlines, but there is something about the case that catches the attention of William Wisting's journalist daughter, Line, and she decides to write a newspaper article with a different twist for the festive season: the portrait of a completely anonymous and obscure person whose death goes unremarked and unmourned.

Jaskiniowiec

Dix-sept ans après son incarcération pour l'enlèvement et le meurtre de la jeune Cecilia Linde, Rudolf Haglund retrouve la liberté. Et son nouvel avocat affirme être en mesure de démontrer que Haglund a été condamné sur la base de preuves falsifiées. William Wisting, à l'époque jeune policier en charge de l'enquête, est devenu une figure exemplaire et respectée, incarnant l'intégrité et les valeurs d'une institution souvent mise à mal dans l'opinion publique. Au cour d'un scandale médiatique et judiciaire, suspendu de ses fonctions, Wisting décide de reprendre un à un les éléments du dossier. Les policiers auraient-ils succombé au syndrome des "chiens de chasse", suivant la première piste que leur indique leur instinct, au risque d'en négliger d'autres, et s'acharnant à étayer leurs soupçons pour prouver la culpabilité supposée de leur "proie" ? Ou l'enquête aurait-elle été manipulée ? Mais par qui, et dans quel but ?

Nenapravitelný sériový vrah sedí za mřížemi – je možné, že ho ani ty nezastaví? Vězeň odsouzený na doživotí za vraždu dvou dívek se rozhodne policii ukázat, kam skryl nikdy nenalezené tělo třetí oběti. Připravená prověrka na místě se však zvrtne a vrah za dramatických okolností uprchne. Wisting i jeho kolega Stiller z oddělení dlouhodobě nevyřešených případů jsou přesvědčení, že mu pomáhal tajemný Komplic, jehož se dosud nepodařilo dopadnout. Stop je ale málo a času ještě méně. Když někdo unese mladou policistku, jde už o vteřiny.

Zlovůle

Jedna jedyna Tom 4 O komisarzu Williamie Wistingu

Jø Lier Horst

Pre-order and set your pulse raising with the new novel from Norwegian superstar Jørn Lier Horst. William Wisting must infiltrate the darkest corners of Norway to stop a notorious murderer before they catch their next victim . . . THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HIT BBC FOUR SHOW WISTING 'Up there with the best of the Nordic crime writers' THE TIMES _______ A severed head, impaled on a stake, placed in the middle of the town square. No clues. No leads. And just hours later, another body. Inspector William Wisting is investigating the most grotesque case of his career. As media pressure mounts to find the sadistic killer, he soon finds what could be the key to solving the murder. But with another death looming, Wisting faces a criminal network well beyond anything he's dealt with before. To find justice, he must put himself in danger beyond his darkest nightmares, and from which there can be no escape. Praise for Jørn Lier Horst 'Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden's Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas' New York Times 'Jørn Lier Horst writes some of the best Scandinavian crime fiction . . . His books are superbly plotted and addictive, the characters wonderfully realized' Yrsa Sigurdardóttir 'One of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today' Sunday Times

The Night Man

Politician Bernhard Clausen has been found dead in his cabin on the Norwegian coast. The police discover a piece of explosive information which could put the whole nation's future at risk. In a frantic search for answers they discover a web of lies which conceal the secrets to a series of cold cases. The police soon realise that to uncover the truth these cases need to be solved. And quickly. Chief Inspector William Wisting, together with Kripos investigator Adrian Stiller, delve into Clauren's past and soon find that his interests lay less in Norway's political world, and more in its dark, and deadly, criminal underbelly.

The Cabin

A letter from the dead could solve Wisting’s coldest case. Stavern 1983: Christmas is approaching and an ambitious young policeman named William Wisting has just become the father of twins. Edged off a robbery investigation by more experienced officers, he is soon on a less prestigious case. In a dilapidated barn stands a forgotten, bullet-riddled car. How long has it been there and what happened to the driver? This is the case that shaped William Wisting as a policeman, with a resolution thirty-three years in the future ...

When It Grows Dark

A letter from the dead could solve Wisting's coldest case.Stavern 1983: Christmas is approaching and an ambitious young policeman named William Wisting has justbecome the father of twins. Edged off a robbery investigation by more experienced officers, he is soon on a lessprestigious case. In a dilapidated barn stands a forgotten, bullet-riddled car. How long has it been there and whathappened to the driver? This is the case that shaped William Wisting as a policeman, with a resolution thirtythreeyears in the future ...

Thomas Enger

"Oslo, 2018. Former long-distance runner Sonja Nordstrøm never shows at the launch of her controversial autobiography, Always Number One. When celebrity blogger Emma Ramm visits Nordstrøm’s home later that day, she finds the door unlocked and signs of a struggle inside. A bib with the number ‘one’ has been pinned to the TV.Police officer Alexander Blix is appointed to head up the missing-persons investigation, but he still bears the emotional scars of a hostage situation nineteen years earlier, when he killed the father of a five-year-old girl. Traces of Nordstrøm soon show up at different locations, but the appearance of the clues appear to be carefully calculated ... evidence of a bigger picture that he’s just not seeing...Blix and Ramm soon join forces, determined to find and stop a merciless killer with a flare for the dramatic, and thirst for attention.Trouble is, he’s just got his first taste of it..."--Publisher description.

Death Deserved

Together with her one year old daughter Maja, single mother Sofie Lund moves into the house she inherited from her grandfather. Sofie has such painful memories that she has had every trace of the old man removed, every trace but a locked safe that has been bolted to the basement floor. Inside the safe, Sofie finds something shocking that will also become crucial evidence in a case that has plagued Inspector William Wisting for a long time. To follow this lead though, he must cut across important loyalties and undermine confidence in the police force. Ordeal is a William Wisting crime novel

Ordeal (16pt Large Print Edition)

Oslo, New Year's Eve. The annual firework celebration is rocked by an explosion, and the city is put on terrorist alert. Police officer Alexander Blix and blogger Emma Ramm are on the scene, and when a severely injured survivor is pulled from the icy harbour, she is identified as the mother of two-year-old Patricia Smeplass, who was kidnapped on her way home from kindergarten ten years earlier ... and never found. Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the unsolved case, as public interest heightens, the terror threat is raised, and it becomes clear that Patricia's disappearance is not all that it seems...

Smoke Screen

El inspector William Wisting ha visto muchos crímenes a lo largo de su carrera, sin embargo, algo se le retuerce en las tripas cuando se encuentra con el cuerpo de un hombre asesinado a golpes en una casa turística en la costa noruega. Su hija Line, que trabaja como periodista y que ha decidido trasladarse a una de las casas de la zona, justo en la desembocadura del fiordo, encuentra otro cuerpo en los alrededores. Poco a poco, se descubren más cadáve- res en el archipiélago, mientras Wisting se adentra peligrosamente en las entrañas del crimen europeo y se acerca al vertiginoso desenlace

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