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Nine-year-old Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, her mother, Helga, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family being to search for Ida, Helga's worst...

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...

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...

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.

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

In tiefster Nacht steht er plötzlich an den Betten seiner Opfer, zielt wortlos mit der Waffe auf sie. Doch wer darf leben, wer wird sterben? In einer norwegischen Kleinstadt geht die Angst um: Drei Menschen haben die Überfälle des Einbrechers, den man "Nachtläufer" nennt, überlebt – aber wie lange noch, bis der Erste stirbt? Kommissar Eddie Feber ist sicher, dass die mysteriösen Zahlenkombinationen an den Tatorten einen Hinweis darauf geben.

One summer evening Lily and her husband are enjoying a meal while their baby daughter sleeps peacefully in her pram beneath a maple tree. But then Lily steps outside to find her baby soaked in blood. The distraught parents rush to the hospital where they discover that she is unharmed. Inspector...

Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp. But as much as the police question him, its not easy for Zipp to come forward with details of the last time he saw his friend: following an old woman into her home, brandishing his knife. Zipp waited anxiously...

‘He'd just learnt to walk,’ she said. ‘He was sitting playing on his blanket, then all of a sudden he was gone.’ A 16-month-old boy is found drowned in a pond right by his home. Chief Inspector Sejer is called to the scene as there is something troubling about the mother’s story. As...

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.

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.

Lille yndige Ida på ti år forsvinder. Hun var kørt til kiosken på sin nye cykel - men Ida kommer ikke tilbage, og et mareridt begynder for Idas familie og hele den lille by. Politiet frygter det værste, pressen lugter blod, og alle engagerer sig i eftersøgningen. Er der en pervers barnerøver på spil - et umenneskeligt monster med modbydelige hensigter? For det giver vel ingen mening at søge et menneskeligt motiv til så grusom en forbrydelse?

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.

Axel, Reilly og Jon har været venner siden de var børn. Da Jon bliver ramt af en alvorlig nedtur og indlægges på psykiatrisk hospital, beslutter Axel og Reilly at muntre ham op med en weekendtur til en hytte i fjeldet. ved hytten ligger søen Dødvandet - og i søen ligger en robåd. De beslutter sig for en aftentur på søen. Den ender brat, da Jon kaster sig over bord og går til bunds. For øjnene af sine venner.

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.

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.