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In Police - the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø's hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective - a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, in The Thirst, the story continues as Harry is inextricably drawn back into the Oslo police force. A serial murderer has begun targeting Tinder daters - a murderer whose MO reignites Harry's hunt for a nemesis of his past.

1944: Daniel, a soldier, legendary among the Norwegians fighting the advance of Bolshevism on the Russian front, is killed. Two years later, a wounded soldier wakes up in a Vienna hospital. He becomes involved with a young nurse, the consequences of which will ripple forward to the turn of the next century. 1999: Harry Hole, alone again after having caused an embarrassment in the line of duty, has been promoted to inspector and has surveillance duties. He is assigned the task of monitoring neo-Nazi activities; fairly mundane until a report of a rare gun being fired sparks his interest.

In the electrifying first installment of the New York Times bestselling series, Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. As he circles closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the murder.

Sonny Lofthus is a strangely charismatic and complacent young man. Sonny’s been in prison for a dozen years, nearly half his life. The inmates who seek out his uncanny abilities to soothe leave his cell feeling absolved. They don’t know or care that Sonny has a serious heroin habit - or where or how he gets his uninterrupted supply of the drug. Or that he’s serving time for other peoples’ crimes. Sonny took the first steps toward addiction when his father took his own life rather than face exposure as a corrupt cop. Now Sonny is the seemingly malleable center of a whole infrastructure of corruption....

Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neck is his mother’s pink scarf. Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he’s received and the disappearance of Jonas’s mother - and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he is becoming a pawn....

Harry Hole is not in a good place. Rakel - the only woman he's ever loved - has ended it with him, permanently. He's been given a chance for a new start with the Oslo Police, but it's in the cold case office. What he really wants is to be investigating cases he suspects have ties to Svein Finne, the serial rapist and murderer who Harry helped put behind bars. And now, Finne is free after a decade-plus in prison. When Harry wakes up the morning after a drunken night with blood that's clearly not his own on his hands, it's only the very beginning of what will be a waking nightmare.

À Oslo, deux jeunes femmes sont retrouvées, l’une sans cerveau, l’autre décapitée. Soupçonné, l’exécrable Markus Røed, magnat de l’immobilier, charge son avocat d’engager un détective, le meilleur, pour le disculper. Hole, exclu de la police, serait l’homme de la situation s’il n’était en train de se soûler méthodiquement dans un bar de Los Angeles en compagnie de Lucille, actrice vieillissante qui doit 960 000 dollars à des recouvreurs de dette mexicains.

Harry Hole a réintégré la police criminelle d’Oslo, mais il doit se contenter des cold cases alors qu’il rêve de remettre sous les verrous Svein Finne, ce violeur en série qu’il avait arrêté il y a une dizaine d’années et qui vient d’être libéré. Outrepassant les ordres de sa supérieure hiérarchique, Harry traque cet homme qui l’obsède. Mais un matin, après une soirée bien trop arrosée, Harry se réveille sans le moindre souvenir de la veille, les mains couvertes du sang d’un autre.

Une jeune Norvégienne est retrouvée morte au pied d'une falaise en Australie. L'inspecteur Harry Hole est envoyé sur place par sa hiérarchie, soucieuse de l'éloigner suite à un événement tragique, pour assurer la liaison entre Oslo et la police locale.

Carl et Roy ont seize et dix-sept ans lorsque la voiture de leurs parents tombe au fond d'un ravin. Roy s'installe comme mécanicien dans une station-service du bourg voisin pour subvenir à leurs besoins. Carl, aussitôt sa scolarité finie, file au Canada poursuivre ses études et tenter sa chance.

When the Norwegian ambassador to Thailand is found dead in a Bangkok brothel, Inspector Harry Hole is dispatched from Oslo to help hush up the case. But once he arrives Harry discovers that this case is about much more than one random murder. There is something else, something more pervasive, scrabbling around behind the scenes. Or, put another way, for every cockroach you see in your hotel room, there are hundreds behind the walls.

For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the center of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His brilliant insights and dedication to his job have saved countless lives over the years. But as the killer grows increasingly bold and the media reaction increasingly hysterical, the detective is nowhere to be found. This time, when those he loves and values most are facing terrible danger, Harry is in no position to protect anyone—least of all himself.

Shots ring out at a Salvation Army Christmas concert in Oslo, leaving one of the singers dead in the street. The trail will lead Harry Hole, Oslo’s best investigator and worst civil servant, deep into the darkest corners of the city and, eventually, to Croatia.

Roy et Carl Opgard, frères toxiques, ont sept meurtres à leur actif, commis ensemble ou séparément. Et sont prêts à continuer si nécessaire. Car ils ont des problèmes à régler. Neutraliser un projet de tunnel, d'abord. Faute de quoi le tracé de la route nationale sera modifié et Os, leur bourg, restera à l'écart. Or ils ont de grands desseins pour leur domaine… Ensuite, museler le lensmann, qui rêve de faire profiter les deux épaves de voitures, en contrebas du virage des Chèvres, des progrès de la police scientifique. L'une abrite le corps de son père, qui l'a précédé dans ses fonctions.

Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft characterization, hair-raising suspense and shocking twists, Nesbø’s dexterity with the dark corners of the human heart is on full display in these inventive and enthralling stories.

It seems the city of Oslo has a serial killer on its hands, and detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. Only he is not happy with his colleague Tom Waaler, whom he suspects of arms smuggling and murder. A previous Jo Nesbø title was voted best Norwegian crime novel of all time.

À quelques jours de Noël, un membre de l'Armée du Salut est abattu en pleine rue par un tueur à gages, lors d'un concert de charité à Oslo. Ex-enfant soldat croate et héros de guerre, le tueur a réussi à s'enfuir. Lorsqu'il se retrouve bloqué à l'aéroport par une tempête de neige, il réalise qu'il s'est trompé de cible et décide de rester pour achever son travail. Mais l'inspecteur Harry Hole compte bien l'en empêcher.

Trois ans après avoir démissionné de la police norvégienne et s'être exilé à Hong Kong, Harry Hole revient à Oslo. Mais, cette fois-ci, l'affaire s'annonce plus difficile que prévue, intime et douloureuse : Oleg, le fils de Rakel, le grand amour de Harry, a été arrêté pour le meurtre d'un dealer avec lequel il s'était acoquiné. Tout semble accabler le jeune homme. Ne manque plus que le mobile. Très vite, Harry découvre que la victime et Oleg officiaient pour un mystérieux groupe de dealers, dirigé par quelqu'un dont on ne sait pour ainsi dire rien, hormis son nom : Dubaï.

When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong - fleeing the traumas of life as a cop - he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation that takes him deep into the world of the most virulent drug to ever hit the streets.

Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother Carl who couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. Just like everyone else in town, Roy believed Carl was gone for good. But Carl has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the town's past come under new scrutiny. Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town's sordid history.