Bettie's Books

bookshelves: one-penny-wonder, paper-read, winter-20122013, library-in-norway, norway, published-1996, mystery-thriller, translation, series, spring-2013, doo-lally, books-about-books-and-book-shops, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts

Sticker: London Borough of Hillingdon Libraries.

Translated from the Norwegian by Barbara J Haveland

Opening: 'I thought he was going to rape me,' the women said, reporting the incident later. No point beating about the bush: we might as well begin at the end, or the beginning of the end.a

Norway National Day - 17th May

Sometimes Jonas wondered if he had been to Yerevan three times or just the once.

Not only this a confusing read, Conqueror is in fact book #2 of 3 where The Seducer is the first. I've re-started this from scratch and ordered the other two books.

Featuring:

Sonja Henie

Niels Henrik Abel

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen

Ingeborg Sørensen

Edvard Grieg Peer Gynt - Morning Mood



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TBR Busting 2013

Jonas Wergeland has been convicted of the murder of his wife Margrete. What brought Norway's darling to this end? A professor has been set the task of writing a biography of the once celebrated, now notorious, television personality; in doing so he hopes to solve the riddle of Jonas Wergeland's success and downfall. But the sheer volume of material on his subject is so daunting that the professor finds himself completely bogged down, at a loss as how to proceed, until the evening when a mysterious stranger knocks on his door and offers to tell him stories which will help him unravel the strands of Wergeland's life.