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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.

Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy, industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom - a master of manipulation named Hecate - has connections with the highest in power and plans to use them to get his way.

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.

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.

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.

Ein verschlafenes Nest in Norwegen, vom Abstieg bedrohte Menschen - und zwei Brüder, die sich bis aufs Messer bekämpfen. In den norwegischen Bergen lebt ein Mann ein friedvolles Leben. Doch eines Tages kehrt sein jüngerer Bruder - schon immer der erfolgreichere und charmantere der beiden - in ihren Heimatort zurück, in Begleitung seiner neuen schönen Frau. Schon bald wird klar, dass er nicht so unschuldig ist, wie es scheint.

Un doigt coupé et un diamant en forme de pentagramme, plus connu sous le nom de "l'étoile du diable", telle est la signature du tueur qui terrorise Oslo durant cet été caniculaire. L'inspecteur Harry Hole va être contraint de réprimer son animosité envers Tom Waaler, son collègue et ennemi, s'il veut résoudre cette affaire qui pourrait bien être sa dernière. 

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.

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.

Dans une ville industrielle ravagée par la pauvreté et le crime, le nouveau préfet de police Duncan incarne l'espoir du changement. Aidé de Macbeth, le commandant de la Garde, l'unité d'intervention d'élite, il compte débarrasser la ville de ses fléaux, au premier rang desquels figure Hécate, puissant baron de la drogue. Mais c'est ne faire aucun cas des vieilles rancœurs ou des jalousies personnelles, et des ambitions individuelles... qu'attise Lady, patronne du casino Inverness et ambitieuse maîtresse de Macbeth.

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.

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. 

Harry Hole, drunkard, loner and brilliant detective is reassigned to surveillance after a high profile mistake. He’s bored by his new job until a report of a rare and unusual gun being fired sparks his interest because of its possible links to Neo Nazi activity. Then a former soldier is found with his throat cut. Next Harry’s former partner is murdered. Why had she been trying to reach Harry on the night her head was smashed in?

The police urgently need Harry Hole…. A killer is stalking Oslo's streets. Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated but failed to solve. The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical. But this time, Harry can't help.... For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the center of every major criminal investigation in Oslo. His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people. But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry is not in a position to protect anyone. Least of all himself...

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....

Before Harry took on the neo-Nazi gangs of Oslo, before he met Rakel, before The Snowman tried to take everything he held dear, he went to Australia. Harry Hole is sent to Sydney to investigate the murder of Inger Holter, a young Norwegian girl who was working in a bar. Initially sidelined as an outsider, Harry becomes central to the Australian police investigation when they start to notice a number of unsolved rape and murder cases around the country. The victims were usually young blondes. Inger had a number of admirers, each with his own share of secrets, but there is no obvious suspect.

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.

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.

Christmas shoppers stop to hear a Salvation Army concert on a crowded Oslo street. An explosion cuts through the music and the bitter cold: One of the singers falls dead, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole - the Oslo Police Department’s best investigator and worst civil servant - has little to work with: no suspect, no weapon, and no motive. But Harry’s troubles will multiply. As the search closes in, the killer becomes increasingly desperate, and Harry’s chase takes him to the most forbidden corners of the former Yugoslavia. Yet it’s when he returns to Oslo that he encounters true darkness....