Vik and Stubo Books in Order

On the same July day that Norway is rocked by national tragedy, eight-year-old Sander Mohr falls to his death in his affluent Oslo home. Rookie officer Henrik Holme and profiler Johanne Vik begin to suspect the accident was staged, uncovering buried family secrets that powerful people are desperate to keep hidden.

During a snowy Christmas in Norway, an unknown teenage boy washes up in Oslo harbor and, days later, a widely loved bishop is stabbed to death in Bergen. While Adam Stubo leads the official hunt for a link, Johanne Vik's research into hate crimes suggests the murders are part of a far wider campaign.

During her first state visit to Norway, the United States' first female president vanishes from a locked, heavily guarded bedroom. With international tensions rising, Adam Stubo and Johanne Vik must work in the shadows, untangling political vendettas and buried scandals to find her before the crisis explodes.

In the glare of Norwegian celebrity culture, a talk-show host, a politician and other public figures are murdered in bizarre, highly staged ways that seem to have nothing in common. As Detective Adam Stubo struggles to connect the crimes, profiler Johanne Vik must revisit disturbing cases from her FBI days to see the pattern.

In Oslo, several children are abducted from comfortable homes and later found dead with the same taunting message about punishment. Detective Adam Stubo enlists academic psychologist and former FBI profiler Johanne Vik, whose research into a decades-old child-murder case may hold the key to stopping the new killer.