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England 1900. Unge Rose Winther og Dimpy Ashmore er nygifte og skal tilbringe julen på familiens ærverdige gods Oaktree Manor. Rose elsker jul og har store planer for høytiden. Den skal bli uforglemmelig - full av deilig mat, varm toddy, vakker pynt, peisbål, god stemning og kjærlighet. Forventningene og gleden snus raskt til fortvilelse og sorg da Dimpy mottar et brev som får ham til å styrte på dør. Like etter ankommer en fremmed Oaktree Manor, og Rose havner i et følelsesmessig kaos. Hvor godt kjenner hun egentlig Dimpy? Og kan julen reddes? Den største gaven kan leses som en enkeltstående roman, men Winther-fans vil fryde seg over nok en historie om familien Winther og det flotte godset Oaktree Manor.

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I’ll soon learn that the Winchesters’ secrets are far more dangerous than my own… Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor. I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband. I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out… and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late. But I reassure myself: the Winchesters don’t know who I really am. They don’t know what I’m capable of… An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!

William Wisting has a new case to solve during the off-season. Ove Bakkerud, newly separated and extremely disillusioned, is looking forward to a final quiet weekend at his summer home before closing for winter but, when the tourists leave, less welcome visitors arrive. Bakkerud's cottage is ransacked by burglars. Next door he discovers the body of a man who has been beaten to death. Police Inspector William Wisting has witnessed grotesque murders before, but the desperation he sees in this latest murder is something new. Against his wishes his daughter Line decides to stay in one of the summer cottages at the mouth of the fjord. Wisting's unease does not diminish when they discover several more corpses on the deserted archipelago. Meanwhile, dead birds are dropping from the sky.

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. (Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)

En kvinne blir funnet drept i sin egen stue i den idylliske kystbygda Losvika. Hun sitter i en stol ved vinduet med utsikt til alle som kommer og drar. Hun er sminket og kledd i en lang, sort silkekjole. Kvinnen er datteren til en predikant som ble funnet drept i det samme huset ett år tidligere. Drapet er ikke blitt oppklart, og folk i bygda er redde for at det går en drapsmann løs. Journalisten Kajsa Coren begynner å grave i drapsofferet fortid. Folk omtaler kvinnen som ensom og annerledes; hun hadde nesten ingen kontakt med andre mennesker, og hun snakket aldri. Kajsa skjønner at kvinnen tilbragte dagene i stolen ved vinduet, og at hun visste mye om mange. For mye? Da en ung jente forsvinner, øker folks frykt i takt med stormen som er på vei inn fra havet.

Seventeen years ago William Wisting led the investigation into one of Norway’s most notorious criminal cases, the murder of young Cecilia Linde. When it is discovered that evidence was falsified he is suspended from duty. It looks like a man has been wrongly convicted, and suddenly the media are baying for blood. Wisting, who has spent his life hunting criminals, is now the hunted.

Året är 1937 och den 17\-åriga Betty lämnar Hudiksvall för att bli hembiträde hos doktorsfamiljen Molander på Östermalm i Stockholm. Hon kämpar med långa arbetsdagar och doktorinnans nedlåtande attityd. Betty är oskuldsfull och bildningstörstande och inser snart att i storstaden finns det andra möjligheter och en betydligt större frihet än vad som fanns på hemorten. Inte minst växer en stark vänskap fram med Viola, hembiträdet i grannhuset. Genom böckernas värld kommer Betty i kontakt med Martin, en universitetslektor av judisk börd, och inleder med honom en omöjlig kärleksrelation. Räkna hjärtslag är en berättelse om en ung kvinnas väg ut i livet, i en historisk tid som liknar vår egen. Det är en varm roman med tidstroget språk och färgstarka detaljer som snabbt förflyttar läsaren till tiden strax före andra världskriget.

Markus Heger oppsøker åsteder for gamle og nye krimsaker. Fra et podkaststudio bak i bobilen sin gjenforteller han historiene og kringkaster det han finner ut. «Skriket ingen hørte» skulle bli en serie om sju år gamle Leah Forsberg som forsvant fra Fagernes for 15 år siden, men det ble bare én episode. Da en ny jente forsvinner, blir saken igjen aktuell.