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2000s: The sixth installment in the Hanne Wilhelmsen
No Echo
What you need to know before your trail
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 of famous friends, is there a culprit among them – or was this a random act of violence?
Police investigator Billy T. takes on the case, but is met with conflicting information about what kind of man Ziegler was. It seems nobody really knew the dead man – including his glamorous wife, the restaurant co-owner and the editor of his memoir. While Billy T. struggles to break the case, Hanne Wilhelmsen returns to Oslo after a six-month absence. Since the death of her partner Cecilie, Hanne has been in self-imposed exile. Hanne discovers that not only had Ziegler been stabbed, but he had also ingested a lethal dose of painkillers. As the plot thickens, Hanne and Billy T. are pulled deeper into the nefarious world in which Ziegler lived. Was he who he said he was? And can those who claim to have known him best be trusted?
Travel Guide
Oslo
Anne Holt’s Oslo is a very special kind of city. It’s is a mix of cold cases, tough streets and calculating killers. But in this novel there is one very nice sounding building that book fans will really like:
“The publishing company was Norway’s oldest, founded in 1829. This publishing company had history. Serious literary history, The books on the cheap IKEA shelves lining one wall however looked more like mass-market paperback novels”
The world of Celebrity chefs is sliced upon and feasted upon in this novel. Murdered on the steps of the police HQ is a very public place to die, and so there is a lot of interest about its significance
Oslo Police
The police and legal team work from the police HQ in Gronlandsleiret 44 “which has no historical resonance unlike the previous building in Mollergata where the HQ used to be. The police seems to be bothered that their block is unlike the smart government buildings of Victoria Terrasse nearby”
Cases always seems to involve a conspiracy or two operating high up in the Oslo legal system and since Ms Holt was Norway’s Justice Minister, there is a keen sense of accuracy and realistic dialogue and other plot background within every book.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: No Echo
Destination: Oslo Author/Guide: Anne Holt Departure Time:2000s
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