Blind Goddess (Hanne Wilhelmsen Series) - Softcover

Superb * Guardian * A splendidly chilling read * Observer * If you haven't heard of Anne Holt, you soon will... [1222 is] A variation on the classic locked room mystery, Holt has capitalized on old-fashioned suspense to great effect * Daily Mail * Step aside, Stieg Larsson, Holt is the queen of Scandinavian crime thrillers. * Red * Like a mash-up of Steig Larsson, Jeffery Deaver and Agatha Christie. * Daily Mirror * 1222 is an homage to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - or Miss Marple as a badass, paralysed Norwegian lesbian detective... Holt translates the classic locked room mystery into a modern thriller. * The Times *

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 central Oslo. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak. Five days later a shady criminal lawyer called Hans Olsen is murdered. The two deaths don't seem related, but Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is unconvinced. Soon, she uncovers a link between the bodies: Olsen defended the drug dealer. But there are powerful forces working against Hanne; a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a crooked lawyer and a small-time dealer. The investigation will take her into the offices of the most powerful men in Norway - and even put her own life at risk...