| Description |
398 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Johanne Vik series
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| Summary |
A drug addict dead in a basement, a young asylum seeker floating in the harbour, a high profile female bishop stabbed to death in the street. What is the connection? During a snowy Christmas season in Norway, criminal psychologist and profiler Inger Johanne Vik finds not only her husband and herself but also her autistic daughter drawn into the investigation of a number of disturbing deaths. Her husband, detective Yngvar Stubo, has been dispatched to Bergen to investigate the shocking Christmas Eve murder of a local female bishop. Meanwhile, in Oslo, bodies keep turning up, though the causes of death vary. Before long, Inger Johanne will discover something that will link them all |
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The silent, snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquillity. But over the tolling of bells for the last Sunday of Advent, a black note sounds. A boy's body washes up near the shoreline of the city's Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by the water, almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered to report him missing. One week later, the bishop of Bergen is found stabbed to death on a deserted street. Eva Karin Lysgaard is a popular public figure, a sixty-two year-old grandmother: why was she on a lone errand in the deserted city, on the night before Christmas? Johanne Vik, criminal researcher and police profiler, is called in to untangle the motivation behind the bishop's murder. But with her husband at the head of this increasingly high-profile investigation, Vik's association with the case is under intense scrutiny. And why does Lysgaard's shocking death lead her towards the sad death of an unknown boy? |
| Notes |
Translation of: Pengemannen |
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Translated from the Norwegian |
| Subject |
Stubo, Adam (Fictitious character)
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Vik, Johanne (Fictitious character)
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Detective and mystery stories, Norwegian.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Norway -- Fiction.
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Serial murder investigation -- Norway -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Oslo (Norway) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018884 -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562
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| Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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Fiction.
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| Author |
Delargy, Marlaine.
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| ISBN |
1848876106 |
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1848876122 (paperback) |
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9781848876101 |
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9781848876118 (paperback) |
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9781848876125 (paperback) |
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