Bøker av Hans Olav Lahlum

Oslo, 1968. Den tidligere statsråden og motstandshelten Harald Olesen blir funnet skutt ned og drept i sin egen leilighet. Førstebetjenten Kolbjørn K2 Kristiansen forstår raskt at morderen må ha vært en de andre beboerne i oppgangen. Det viser seg at alle av oppgangens beboere preges av dystre hendelser i fortiden, og stadig flere spor peker tilbake mot okkupasjonsårene under 2. verdenskrig. Dette er den første boka om Førstebetjent K2 og Patricia.

Reiulf Steen. Historien, triumfen og tragediene er spennende og lærerik norgeshistorie, men mest av alt et gripende portrett av et sterkt sammensatt menneske.Knapt noen politiker fra norsk etterkrigstid har engasjert folk like sterkt som karismatikeren og idépolitikeren Reiulf Steen (1933-2014). Få kunne begeistre tilhørere og lesere som ham - og få har klart å bli så omstridt, både i og utenfor eget parti.Reiulf Steen kom fra svært enkle kår, som farløs arbeidersønn i et sterk klassedelt samfunn på Sætre i Hurum. Tross flere tragiske opplevelser i barneårene tok han alt som ungdom spranget inn i rikspolitikken som sekretær og senere formann for AUF. Steen var bare 31 år gammel da han i 1965 ble nestformann i Arbeiderpartiet. Han rykket opp til partiformann som del av det dramatiske landsmøtekompromisset i 1975 - hvor det samtidig ble fastslått at han ikke skulle bli statsminister. Steen ble en for Arbeiderpartiet svært viktig brobygger og reformator, men store personlige problemer og et stadig skarpere motsetningsforhold til Gro Harlem Brundtland utløste hans avgang som partiformann alt i 1981. Internasjonalisten Reiulf Steen forlot Stortinget i 1992 for å bli ambassadør i Chile, men forble en engasjert deltaker i norsk samfunnsdebatt helt frem til 2010-tallet.Reiulf Steen. Historien, triumfene og tragediene er en storslått historisk biografi som mange har gledet seg til - og som noen har gruet seg til. Den gir svar på tidligere ubesvarte spørsmål om Reiulf Steen og andre sentrale aktører fra hans periode som partiformann, og gir ny innsikt om Arbeiderpartiets moderne historie.

Fra Oscar Torp ble med i arbeiderbevegelsen som ung mann til han døde som stortingspresident 1. mai 1958, befant han seg i sentrum av begivenhetene som formet forrige århundre. Forfatteren skildrer Torps liv, og sentralt i boka står hans forhold til kongefamilien og Gerhardsen, foruten hans rolle i striden om general Fleischers selvmord. Har litteraturliste og personregister.

From the international bestselling author, Hans Olav Lahlum, comes Chameleon People, the fourth murder mystery in the K2 and Patricia series.1972. On a cold March morning the weekend peace is broken when a frantic young cyclist rings on Inspector Kolbjorn 'K2' Kristiansen's doorbell, desperate to speak to the detective.Compelled to help, K2 lets the boy inside, only to discover that he is being pursued by K2's colleagues in the Oslo police. A bloody knife is quickly found in the young man's pocket: a knife that matches the stab wounds of a politician murdered just a few streets away. The evidence seems clear-cut, and the arrest couldn't be easier. But with the suspect's identity unknown, and the boy refusing to speak, K2 finds himself far from closing the case. And then there is the question that K2 can't get out of his head: why would a guilty man travel directly to a police detective from the scene of his own brutal crime?

The third mystery in the hugely compelling, bestselling international crime series from Norway's answer to Agatha Christie, Hans Olav Lahlum. The Catalyst Killing will have you guessing to the final clue...The first murder was only the spark . . . 1970. Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen, known as K2, witnesses a young woman desperately trying to board a train only to have the doors close before her face. The next time he sees her, she is dead . . .As K2 investigates, with the help of his precocious young assistant Patricia, he discovers that the story behind Marie Morgenstierne's murder really began two years ago, when a group of politically active young people set out on a walking tour in the mountains. There, one night, the party's charismatic leader - and Marie's boyfriend - Falko Reinhardt vanished without a trace. But were the relationships between this group of friends and comrades all they appeared to be? What did Marie see, that made her run for her life that day? And could both mysteries be linked to Falko's research into a cell of Norwegian Nazis he suspected may still be active?It soon becomes clear that Marie's death is not only a complex case in its own right, but will act as a catalyst in a dark set of events which will leave K2 and Patricia confronting their most dangerous and explosive investigation yet. And as the pair work hard to unravel the clues before Marie's killer can strike again, the detective fails to notice that his young assistant has her own problems to face . . .

Oslo, 1968. Ambitious young detective Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen is called to an apartment block, where a man has been found murdered.The victim, Harald Olesen, was a legendary hero of the Resistance during the Nazi occupation and at first it is difficult to imagine who could have wanted him dead. But as Detective Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen (known as K2) begins to investigate, it seems clear that the murderer could only be one of Olesen's fellow tenants in the building.Soon, with the help of Patricia - a brilliant young woman confined to a wheelchair following a terrible accident - K2 will begin to untangle the web of lies surrounding Olesen's neighbours; each of whom, it seems, had their own reasons for wanting Olesen dead. Their interviews, together with new and perplexing clues, will lead K2 and Patricia to dark events that took place during the Second World War . . .The Human Flies by Hans Olav Lahlum is a gripping, evocative and ingenious mystery - the first in a series featuring K2 and Patricia - which pays homage to the great Agatha Christie and will plunge readers into Norwegian history, and into a world of deceit and betrayal, revenge and the very darkest murder.