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Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Stockholm. On his last cross-border mission to Norway, he carries a rucksack full of coded documents and newspapers, but before he has a chance to deliver anything he is shot and killed and the contents of his rucksack are missing. The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden, whose past that is as horrifying as the events still to come.

When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose...until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo Detectives Frølich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim's Kenyan scientist boyfriend has disappeared, and their investigations soon lead them into the shady world of international pharmaceutical deals.

Reidar Folke Jespersen od wielu lat prowadzi antykwariat w Oslo. Gdy przychodzi niezwykle mroźny piątek trzynastego, spełniają się wszystkie najgorsze myśli mężczyzny. Następnego dnia Reidar zostaje odnaleziony martwy. Morderca makabrycznie obwieszcza światu swój czyn, wystawiając nagie zwłoki antykwariusza w witrynie jego sklepu. Na ciele znajduje się tajemniczy napis: J195. Kto mógł dokonać zbrodni? Reidar miał wiele wrogów, a jego usposobienie nie należało do najprzyjemniejszych. Niewierna żona? Bracia? Syn?

Komisarz Gunnarstranda otrzymuje nagłe wezwanie. Okazuje się, że zamordowano młodą kobietę. Katrine dzień wcześniej uczestniczyła w imprezie zorganizowanej przez dyrekcję ośrodka dla narkomanów, w którym niedawno skończyła terapię. Wydawało się, że zostawiła za sobą mroczną przeszłość. Czyżby ta upomniała się o nią? Komisarz w asyście niezastąpionego Franka Frølicha próbuje rozwikłać zagadkę okrutnej śmierci kobiety. Przed nimi długie i wymagające śledztwo.

Med en nutida ramberättelse, en huvudhandling förlagd till Oslo senhösten 1967 och med tillbakablickar till krigets 1942, skriver Kjell Ola Dahl fram en elegant och trovärdig historia som 2015 tilldelades både Rivertonpriset och Bragepriset för bästa kriminalroman.

Mannen i fönstret är en ny pulshöjande nagelbitare i serien om polisen Gunnarstranda och hans kollega Frank "Franken" Frölich polisroman av den prisbelönta författaren till deckarsuccén Täcknamn: Hilde. Den gamle antikvitetshandlaren Reidar Folke Jespersen hittas mördad, naken i en fåtölj i ett skyltfönster. På bröstet finns en sifferkombination inristad, och på pannan har någon målat tre kors. Kommissarie Gunnarstranda och Frank "Franken" Frölich får i uppdrag att utreda fallet.

Suspended from duty, Detective Frølich is working as a private investigator when his girlfriend's colleague asks for his help with a female asylum seeker who the authorities are about to deport. She claims to have a sister in Norway and fears that returning to her home country will mean instant death. Frølich quickly discovers the whereabouts of the young woman's sister, but things become increasingly complex when she denies having a sibling, and Frølich is threatened off the case by the police.

In 1942, Jewish courier Ester is betrayed, narrowly avoiding arrest by the Gestapo. In a great haste, she escapes to Sweden, saving herself. Her family in Oslo, however, is deported to Auschwitz. In Stockholm, Ester meets the resistance hero Gerhard Falkum, who has left his little daughter and fled both the Germans and allegations that he murdered his wife, Åse, who helped Ester get to Sweden. Their burgeoning relationship ends abruptly when Falkum dies in a fire. And yet, 25 years later, Falkum shows up in Oslo. He wants to reconnect with his daughter.

When a dead man is lifted from the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour just before Christmas, Detective Lena Stigersand's stressful life suddenly becomes even more complicated. Not only is she dealing with a cancer scare, a stalker and an untrustworthy boyfriend, but it seems both a politician and Norway's security services might be involved in the murder. With her trusted colleagues, Gunnarstranda and Frølich, at her side, Lena digs deep into the case and finds that it not only goes to the heart of the Norwegian establishment, but it might be rather too close to her personal life for comfort.

Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler’s Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there’s a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the office of police-turned-private investigator Ludvig Paaske, he and his assistant – his one-time nemesis and former drug-smuggler Jack Rivers – begin a seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity.

Un fatídico viernes 13, el anticuario Reidar Folke Jespersen decide poner orden en su vida: se niega a vender el negocio familiar por una importante suma de dinero, contradiciendo así la opinión de sus hermanos; telefonea a casa del amante de su mujer, en el momento en que sabe que ambos...