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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.

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.

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.

By all accounts, Carol and Roy Opgard are doing quite well for themselves. Or at least they are doing as well as can be expected in a small town like Os. Carl manages the area's swanky and successful spa, while Roy runs the local gas station and dreams of building it into an entire amusement park complete with a roller coaster. But then news breaks about a new highway that will bypass Os and leave the town cut off and isolated. Something has to be done about that, even if the methods need to be dirty. Fortunately, Roy and Carl have experience with dirty work.

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.

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....

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.

Two young women are found murdered in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. Media coverage quickly reaches fever pitch: Could this be the work of a serial killer? The crime scenes offer no coherent clues, the police investigation is stalled, and the one man who might be able to help doesn't want to be found. Traumatized by his last case, Inspector Harry Hole has lost himself in the squalor of Hong Kong's opium dens. Yet when he is compelled, at last, to return to Norway - his father is dying - Harry's buried instincts begin to take over. Then a female MP is discovered brutally murdered.

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.

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.

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.

Two young women are missing in Oslo. Strangers to each other, but last seen at the same party. When the body of one of them is found with fresh stitches along her hairline, the hunt is on to find a murderer with singular compulsions. Catching this criminal calls for a detective with a singular mind: Harry Hole. But Harry is gone: fired from the police force and down and out in Los Angeles. It seems like nothing can entice him back home—until someone close to him comes under threat. Now the clock is ticking, for Harry's friend and for the missing woman.

À Oslo, la première neige tombe sur la ville lorsqu'une mère de famille sans histoires disparaît, en pleine nuit. Seul indice, son écharpe retrouvée autour du cou d'un bonhomme de neige, mystérieusement apparu dans son jardin. La police n'a aucune piste jusqu'au jour où l'inspecteur Harry Hole reçoit une lettre signée "le bonhomme de neige", lui annonçant de nouvelles victimes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Une jeune femme est assassinée après un rendez-vous pris sur un célèbre site de rencontres. Les violentes marques de morsures trouvées sur le cadavre ne laissent pas de doute : il ne s'agit pas d'un simple fait divers comme tant d'autres, d'un tête-à-tête qui aurait mal tourné avec un maniaque arpentant le Web. C'est un prédateur particulièrement féroce qui a sévi, assoiffé de sang humain. Lorsqu'un deuxième corps est découvert, mutilé selon la même mise en scène macabre, il semble clair qu'un seul homme peut mettre un terme aux agissements du tueur.