Anne Holt

No Echo

In the sixth gripping instalment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, a high-profile murder brings Hanne back to the city she fled in the wake of heartbreak. When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police headquarters it sends a shockwave through the city’s in-crowd. Ziegler had lots […]

The Lion’s Mouth

Hanne Wilhelmsen’s fourth investigation brings her into conflict with the highest powers in Norway: what secrets lie behind the death of the Prime Minister? Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge? […]

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Dead Joker

The gripping fifth instalment of the bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: the edgy detective investigates a brutal series of murders while dealing with tragedy closer to home Chief Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud’s wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family living room. The cause of death is instantly apparent  – she has been […]

Blessed Are Those Who Thirst

In the second instalment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, the detective hunts down a serial rapist – but can she find him before a father devastated by an attack on his daughter takes the law into his own hands? The Oslo police are baffled. Crime scenes are being found covered with blood, but there is […]

Blind Goddess

In the first instalment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, Anne Holt delivers a superbly chilling story of corruption in the corridors of power. A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of the city. He is taken into custody, […]

Death of the Demon

Anne Holt’s brilliant detective Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates her third case: the manager of a children’s home is dead and a twelve-year-old tearaway is on the run. In an orphanage outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution’s ageing director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav’s eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found […]

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A snowbound mountain pass, a derailed train, a locked, shuttered and heavily guarded carriage, an apocalyptic storm, an ancient hotel, old betrayals, murder and state secrets: one of 2010’s most talked about debuts arrives in paperback 1222 METRES ABOVE SEA LEVEL: train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm […]