'impossible not to be fascinated by the detective Wilhelmsen ... "
Tiziana Lo Porto, D Republic
Author: Anne Holt
Publisher: Einaudi
pages: 300
plot
In a stubbornly cold and leaden in February Norway, the arrival of a boy in an orphanage on the outskirts of Oslo is a cause of great confusion. The twelve Olav fact, removed from parental control, seems infinitely more adult and the other bad companions, and all attempts to pacify seem to fail. When Agnes Vestavik, the director of the orphanage, is found in his office, killed with a kitchen knife, and Olav is disappeared, probably after witnessing the crime, Hanne Wilhelmsen, newly appointed superintendent of police, decided to investigate the case. What that will bring down the streets of Oslo, but also among the worst deterioration in humanity more painfully alive.
One of the most compelling novels of the Scandinavian queen of the yellow.
"Hanne Wilhelmsen is little surprise that Anne Holt gives us ¿ironic, given the limit of the hardness, elegantly gay ..."
Piero Soria, Ttl
Anne Holt (1958) was born in Larvik, Norway, in 1958, and grew up in Tromsø and Lillestrøm. She graduated in Law at the University of Oslo, financing his studies with the trade of television journalist, an activity that has continued even after graduation. After working for some time with the Norwegian State Police, began as a lawyer. From 1996 to 1997 was Minister of Justice. His debut as an author in 1993 with the novel Blind gudinne, much loved by readers and critics, which was followed in 1994, the second novel in the series of Hanne Wilhelmsen: Saliga er de som tørster, which she won the most prestigious award for the Norwegian crime novel, The Riverton Prize. The two novels are now, respectively, a TV series and movies. Anne Holt has also published many other novels, including an impossible love story between two women (Mea Culpa), 1997, and the highly acclaimed Det som er mitt, 2001, published here with the title what you deserve, the novel introducing the new pair of detectives Inger Hohanne Vik and Yngvar Stube, which Einaudi Freestyle chose to start for the Italian reader the work of Holt. The writer now lives in Oslo with his girlfriend and her daughter.
Among his latest works include:
Revenge 2010
The blind goddess 2010
should not happen 2010
also always at the end of March with the Einaudi publishing house released a reprint of:
Author: Anne Holt
Publisher: Einaudi
series: primes
pages: 434
plot
The American president has been kidnapped during the state visit in Norway. The first female president in history. Disappeared into thin air. There are fears a global financial crash. In the furious race against time, the services and the Norwegian pair of detectives known Vik and stubs. With them or against them, the entire American intelligence. And Warren Scifford, del'Fbi, which once had an affair with Vik ...
The new thriller of Queen of Scandinavia suspense, Anne Holt, reveals a shocking surprise, the double bottom of the human soul. What is the shameful secret that has made it vulnerable Madam President?
Here you will find an excerpt
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