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Eine norwegische Kommissarin, ein amerikanischer Sheriff: Ein Fall, zwei Welten Sie hat einen Menschen erschossen. Im Dienst und aus Notwehr, das hat sie schwarz auf weiß. Doch Chefinspektorin Sigrid Ødegård kommt über den Vorfall nicht hinweg. Denn in Norwegen schießt die Polizei nun mal keine Leute tot. Oslo ist nicht Amerika. In Amerika sehen Polizisten anders aus. Manche, wie Sheriff Irv Wylie, tragen sogar Cowboyhut und Stiefel. Irv ist ...

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid-the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night-from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother.She knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there, to that land across the Atlantic where her missing bro...

Derek B. Miller's acclaimed debut novel Norwegian by Night won the CWA John Creasey Award for Best First Novel in 2013. A native of New England, Miller is the director of The Policy Lab and has worked in International Affairs with the UN, governments and think tanks for the past twenty years. His second novel, The Girl in Green, was recently shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the Year 2017. He lives...

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Sie hat einen Menschen erschossen. Im Dienst und aus Notwehr, das hat sie schwarz auf weiß. Doch Chefinspektorin Sigrid Ødegård kommt über den Vorfall nicht hinweg. Denn in Norwegen schießt die Polizei nun mal keine Leute tot. Oslo ist nicht Amerika.In Amerika sehen Polizisten anders aus. Manche, wie Sheriff Irv Wylie, tragen sogar Cowboyhut und Stiefel. Irv ist auf der Suche nach einem Mann, der seine Freundin umgebracht haben soll. Ein Europ...

A gripping and timely novel that follows Sigrid-the dry-witted detective from Derek B. Miller's best-selling debut Norwegian by Night-from Oslo to the United States on a quest to find her missing brother.She knew it was a weird place. She'd heard the stories, seen the movies, read the books. But now police Chief Inspector Sigrid Ødegård has to leave her native Norway and actually go there, to that land across the Atlantic where her missing bro...

From the award-winning author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before. 1991: One hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with, Arwood is an American private who might be an insufferable ignor...

From the prize-winning author of "Norwegian By Night", comes a highly topical and adventurous thriller.

Iraq, 1991. La guerra è finita e il soldato Arwood Hobbes, di stanza con un reparto dell'esercito americano incaricato di far rispettare il cessate il fuoco, si annoia a morte. L'operazione Desert Storm non è stata altro che una campagna aerea di un mese contro alcune truppe irachene allo scoperto, seguita da un conflitto di soli quattro giorni. Arwood fa parte del Terzo Squadrone, Secondo reggimento di Cavalleria, in un posto di controllo chi...

Cosa ci verrei a fare? Sono americano. Ebreo. Ho ottantadue anni. Sono un vedovo in pensione. Un marine". Sheldon Horowitz non è andato per il sottile la prima volta in cui sua nipote Rhea ha osato chiedergli di trasferirsi da lei e Lars, suo marito, a Oslo. Un ebreo del New England, un ex combattente, capace, durante la guerra in Corea, di premere il grilletto di un fucile con il tocco di un amante e di far fuori la bellezza di dodici uomini,...

In this winner of the Crime Writerss Association John Creasey Dagger Award and the Guardian Best Crime and Thriller of the Year, a former Marine sniper and a newly orphaned boy race across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined. Sheldon Horowitz—widowed, impatient, impertinent—has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway—a country of blue and i...

Sheldon Horowitz - tweeëntachtig jaar, ongeduldig en onredelijk - voelt zich nog altijd schuldig over de dood van zijn zoon in Vietnam. Nu is hij net weduwnaar, en wordt hij achtervolgd door geesten uit zijn verleden. Tijdens een verblijf bij zijn familie in Noorwegen is Sheldon getuige van de moord op een vrouw en redt hij haar zoontje. Hij is vastberaden het jongetje te beschermen tegen de moordenaar en diens Balkanbende en samen slaan ze op...

Eighty-two years old, and recently widowed, Sheldon Horowitz has grudgingly moved to Oslo, with his grand-daughter and her Norwegian husband. An ex-Marine, he talks often to the ghosts of his past - the friends he lost in the Pacific and the son who followed him into the US Army, and to his death in Vietnam.

FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Diesen Roman zu hören ist ein einziges Vergnügen. Nach dem Tod seiner Frau ist Sheldon Horowitz mit 82 Jahren zu seiner Enkelin nach Oslo gezogen. Eines Tages hört Sheldon Krach: Er öffnet die Tür und lässt eine Frau mit einem kleinen Jungen hinein. Kurze Zeit später ist die Frau tot und Sheldon mit dem Kind auf der Flucht. Was wollen die Verfolger von dem Jungen? Sheldon weiß es nicht. Aber er weiß: Sie werden ihn nicht kriegen. (5CDs, Laufze...

Sheldon Horowitz, judío neoyorquino de ochenta y dos años, se va a vivir con su nieta y su marido de esta a Oslo después de fallecer su mujer. Obsesionado con la muerte de su hijo en la guerra de Vietnam, su carácter refunfuñón y su negativa a aceptar la debilidad de su memoria se unen a la natural desubicación en la que se encuentra. Una mañana escucha ruidos, se trata de una pelea doméstica. Entonces una mujer y su hijo se refugian en su cas...

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Media pressure is often implicated in changes to foreign policy. It is at once hailed as a check on the abuse of power and then reviled for undermining the roles and responsibilities of democratic institutions. But we are still left to wonder what media pressure "is." This question is explicitly answered here, and in doing so it shows how the never-ending conversation between the media and executive creates social imperatives to which the exec...