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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.

Four feet…from four different victims? In Stavern around midsummer a severed left foot in a training shoe is washed up on the shore. Then another, and yet another. Altogether four left feet in the course of one week. Police Inspector William Wisting has many years of murder experience behind him, but he has never examined evidence like this. Four feet…from four different victims?

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. 

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.

The summer cottages are closed, and peace is settling over the coast of Vestfold, but the autumn fog conceals evil deeds. Ove Bakkerud’s cottage is ransacked by burglars, and next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting is uneasy; the desperation he sees in this latest murder is troubling. Meanwhile dead birds are dropping from the sky.

Stavern, 1983. After a brutal robbery, a young policeman named William Wisting is edged off the investigation by more experienced officers, but soon he is on another case that has not even been recognised as murder. Forgotten in a dilapidated barn stands a bullet-riddled old car, and it looks as if the driver did not get out alive. This case will shape William Wisting as a policeman and give him insight that he will carry with him for the rest of his career.

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.

Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway's most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified, he is suspended from duty. It looks like a man has been wrongly convicted, and suddenly the media are baying for blood. Wisting, who has spent his life hunting criminals, is now the hunted.

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.

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 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?

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. 

I denne samlingen får vi fire utvalgte krimfortellinger. I "Dødelig kollekt" gir Jørn Lier Horst oss den klassike påskekrimen, der politiførstebetjent William Wisting blir satt til å løse et brutalt mord i en kirke. Tom Kristensen beskriver en helg litt utenom det vanlige i den nervepirrende "Tilbakebetalingen". I "Dødelig vind" blander Anders Winlund humor og spenning i historien om butikkmedarbeider Ellen som får uventet besøk av sin sjef.

Dimman ligger kusligt tät över Larvik tidigt en kall höstmorgon. Mitt på stadens torg har ett avhugget huvud placerats, spetsat på en påle. Kommissarie William Wisting ställs inför det mest groteska fall han stött på under sin poliskarriär. Det brutalt mördade offret är en mycket ung flicka och hela Norge är skakat av det blodiga dådet. Medierna kräver en snabb lösning. Men de viktiga timmarna efter fyndet passerar utan några ledtrådar om vem flickan är, och pressen blir inte mindre när ännu ett lik hittas, uppdraget ur den djupa älven.

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.

William Wisting erhält einen merkwürdigen Brief, in dem lediglich "12-1569/99" steht - die Fallnummer eines Mordes aus dem Jahr 1999, als die 17- jährige Tone auf dem Weg zur Arbeit verschwand. Der Fall wurde schnell aufgeklärt und ad acta gelegt, der Täter hinter Gitter gebracht, obgleich er stets seine Unschuld beteuerte. Mittlerweile hat er seine Strafe abgesessen. Und ausgerechnet jetzt hält das Verschwinden einer jungen Frau das Land in Atem, ein Fall mit erschreckenden Parallelen zu Tones Ermordung.

Drei, zwei, eins - wenn der Countdown-Mörder zählt, fließt Blut ... Der Auftakt einer neuen Thrillerreihe aus Norwegen. An dem Tag, als die Autorin Sonja Nordstrøm verschwindet, sollte sie zur Premiere ihres Buches "Ewige Erste" erscheinen. Promi-Reporterin Emma Ramm beschließt Nordstrøm zu Hause aufzusuchen. Die imposante Villa ist leer, doch eine am Fernseher angebrachte Zahl weckt Emmas Neugierde: die Nummer Eins.

Der verurteilte Serienmörder Tom Kerr, der mehrere Frauen entführt und getötet hat, türmt bei einer Tatortbegehung. Eigentlich sollte er den Beamten zeigen, wo er die Leiche seines letzten Opfers vergraben hat, nun steht William Wisting, der die riskante Aktion verantwortet hat, in der Kritik. Schon lange bestand der Verdacht, dass Tom Kerr bei seinen Mordfeldzügen einen Handlanger hatte, der von der Presse "der Andere" genannt wurde. Hat dieses Phantom ihm nun bei seiner Flucht geholfen?

Nicht nur, dass die Sommerhäuser in einer idyllischen Feriensiedlung am Meer Ziel einer Einbrecherbande werden, es findet sich in einer Hütte auch noch eine grausam verstümmelte Leiche.Für Kommissar William Wisting entwickelt sich dieser Fall zu seiner größten persönlichen Herausforderung. Denn es stellt sich heraus, dass seine Tochter Line, eine Kriminalreporterin, in die Geschichte involviert ist. Offensichtlich hat sie sich mit dem falschen Mann eingelassen.