The Redbreast

Oslo detective Harry Hole is a recovering alcoholic reassigned to watch neo-Nazi circles when a rare sniper rifle is smuggled into Norway.

The trail leads him from a murdered old man and a violent far-right scene back to the Eastern Front of the Second World War, where young Norwegians fought for Hitler and their countrymen later made them pay for it.

As the killer stays one step ahead, Hole has to unpick a wartime story of love, loyalty and betrayal before the past claims another victim. The third Harry Hole novel and the first to appear in English, it won Norway's booksellers' prize in 2000.