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Following weeks of heavy rain, the earth comes crumbling down on one of Larvik’s residential areas, burying a handful of houses. Detective William Wisting is quick to join the rescue operation. Luckily, by sunrise the next day, it becomes clear that the landslide has claimed no victims. And yet, just twenty-four hours later, a body is found – and the victim was killed before the landslide. As Wisting opens an investigation into the mysterious murder, he soon discovers this death might have dangerous ties to a series of ongoing cases.

Investigator Sofia Kovic has uncovered a connection between several deaths in Oslo over the last year and a half. She tries to call her superior, Alexander Blix, but before Blix has time to return her call, Kovic is shot and killed in her own home. In the apartment below, Blix’s daughter Iselin narrowly escapes becoming the killer’s next victim. Four days later, Blix and online crime journalist Emma Ramm are locked inside an interrogation room, facing the National Criminal Investigation Service.

Alexander Blix is a broken man. Convicted for avenging his daughter's death, he is being held in one of Norway's high-security prisons. Inside, the other prisoners take every opportunity to humiliate the former police investigator. Outside, Blix's former colleagues are hunting for a terrifying killer. Walter Kroos has escaped from prison in Germany and is heading north. The only lead established by the police is that Kroos has a friend in Blix's prison ward. And now they need Blix's help.

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 10 years earlier and never found. Blix and Ramm join forces to investigate the unsolved case.

Two years ago, Alexander Blix was the lead investigator in a missing person's case where a young mother, Elisabeth Eie, had been kidnapped. The case came to a standstill when Blix's own daughter was killed and he was arrested for avenging her. Blix is a now free man again, but Elisabeth's kidnapper has found him, leaving evidence of her murder in Blix's mailbox.

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 19 years earlier, when he killed the father of a five-year-old girl.

Der Täter: ein gnadenloser Mörder. Die Opfer: scheinbar wahllos gewählt. Die Ermittler: persönlich betroffen … Die packende SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Reihe aus Norwegen geht weiter. Ein Heckenschütze versetzt Oslo in Angst und Schrecken. Scheinbar wahllos schlägt er in der Sommerhitze zu. Eines seiner ersten Opfer ist eine Frau, die Blix und Ramm gut kennen: Umso entschlossener sind sie, den Mörder zu stoppen. Während die Temperaturen immer höher klettern und der Schütze die Stadt weiter terrorisiert, versucht die Polizei ein Muster zwischen den Anschlägen zu finden.

Twenty-four years ago Katharina Haugen went missing. All she left behind was her husband, Martin, and a mysterious string of numbers scribbled on a piece of paper. Every year on October 9th Chief Inspector William Wisting takes out the files to the case he was never able to solve. Stares at the code he was never able to crack. And visits the husband he was never able to help. But now Martin Haugen is missing too.

Un cambrioleur cagoulé est retrouvé assassiné dans un chalet du comté de Vestfold, au sud de la Norvège. William Wisting, inspecteur de la police criminelle de Larvik, une ville moyenne située à une centaine de kilomètres d'Oslo, est chargé de l'enquête. Très vite, la situation se complique. Le propriétaire du chalet, un célèbre présentateur de télévision, reste étrangement injoignable. Un homme mystérieux agresse Wisting en pleine nuit et lui vole sa voiture alors qu'il quitte la scène du crime.

In 1999, 17-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work. Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder. But 20 years later William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests the wrong man was convicted for Tone's death and that the real murderer is still out there and could kill again.

When the body of an Australian backpacker is found in Spain, an online group of amateur true crime sleuths springs up around the world, attempting to solve the mystery of her death. Foremost on the message boards is Astria, a young Norwegian woman whose feverish pursuit takes her closer than anyone to solving the case. But just as she makes her claim of unravelling the mystery, she goes offline.

Following a harsh winter, the dam gates at Farris Lake have been badly damaged, and as summer approaches the lake must be drained for repairs. Under the intense summer sun, the idyllic lake transforms into a barren wasteland – until the secrets that have long been buried beneath the surface are uncovered… On both sides of the lakebed, new evidence relating to unsolved cold cases is discovered – the remains of a young man who went missing eight years ago, and the belongings of a girl who disappeared four years later.

It's been 15 years since Simon Meier walked out of his house, never to be seen again. And just one day since politician Bernard Clausen was found dead at his cabin on the Norwegian coast. When Chief Inspector William Wisting is asked to investigate he soon discovers he may have found the key to solving Meier's disappearance. But doing so means he must work with an old adversary to piece together what really happened all those years ago.

After four years behind bars, notorious serial killer Thomas Kerr is ready to talk. And Chief Inspector William Wisting has been waiting to listen. Kerr has finally agreed to lead the police to his final victim's grave. But the expedition goes horribly wrong after his escape deep into the Norwegian forest. Wisting must launch a frantic search to find this cold-blooded killer before he strikes again. But the body of another woman, killed weeks before, has been found. Murdered in the same way as Kerr's victims.

William Wisting, en vacances depuis deux semaines et las de tondre la pelouse, suit avec attention l’intérêt grandissant de la presse nationale pour une disparition locale : depuis maintenant trois jours, personne n’a vu Agnete Roll, ni eu la moindre nouvelle d’elle. Et la police n’a recueilli aucun indice. C’est alors que Wisting trouve dans sa boîte aux lettres une enveloppe anonyme ; à l’intérieur, une série de chiffres. Ils désignent le numéro d’archive d’une vieille affaire, le dossier 1569. Un soir de l’été 1999, Tone Vaterland, 17 ans, avait été tuée sur la route en rentrant du travail.

William Wisting is in a race against time. When a severed head is found on a stake in the quiet town of Larvik, Police Inspector William Wisting is called in to investigate. The killer is trying to send a message. All roads lead back to the Night Man. As the media closes in on the biggest story of the year, Wisting's journalist daughter Line receives a tip. Soon, it becomes clear that there is more to this case than anyone thought. A criminal network has lodged itself deep into the roots of the city, and it's up to Wisting to take down the elusive and dangerous Night Man.

An Blix' Händen klebt Blut. Doch wo beginnt Gerechtigkeit - und wo hört sie auf? Der dritte Roman der internationalen Bestseller-Reihe aus Norwegen! Eine rätselhafte Mordserie beschäftigt die Ermittlerin Sofia Kovic. Sie zieht ihren Partner Alexander Blix ins Vertrauen - und nur ihn, denn sie fürchtet, die Osloer Polizei könnte eine Rolle in diesem blutigen Spiel einnehmen. Wenig später wird Kovic Opfer eines Mordanschlags und grausam hingerichtet. Hat sie mit ihren Nachforschungen in ein Wespennest gestochen?

Sonja Nordstrøm a disparu ! Après une brillante carrière, l’athlète de haut niveau vient de signer une autobiographie sulfureuse et, en ce premier matin de promotion, elle ne s’est pas présentée à ses rendez-vous avec les médias. Bientôt plusieurs autres célébrités meurent dans des circonstances spectaculaires. Tandis que l’inspecteur en chef Blix et la jeune blogueuse people Emma Ramm, opérant discrètement en tandem, voient se profiler un schéma ourdi par un tueur manipulateur et en manque de reconnaissance publique, la Norvège retient son souffle. Philippe Spiteri s'empare avec brio de ce passionnant polar scandinave.

In der ersten Folge der "Cold Cases"-Serie wird Kommissar William Wisting von den Geistern seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt. Das rätselhafte Verschwinden der jungen Katharina Haugen, das er als Polizeianwärter miterlebte, lässt ihn nicht los. Ihr mysteriöser Code, den sie hinterließ, birgt Geheimnisse, die seit 24 Jahren im Dunkeln liegen. Als Wisting die Akte erneut öffnet, entfaltet sich eine packende Jagd nach der Wahrheit, die ihn an die Grenzen seines Verstandes führt und alte Wunden aufreißt...

Condamné à vingt et un ans de réclusion pour le meurtre, assorti de viol et d’actes de torture, de plusieurs jeunes femmes, Tom Kerr purge sa peine. Lors d’une reconstitution près de la forêt d’Eftanglandet à laquelle il a accepté de participer, il réussit à s’enfuir malgré des mesures de sécurité renforcées. Manifestement, il a bénéficié d’une complicité. Tout désigne celui que les journalistes ont surnommé "l’Autre" et qui pourrait bien être encore plus dangereux.