Blind Goddess (Thorndike Thrillers)
The first book in Anne Holt?s Edgar-nominated series featuring Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen of 1222. A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, refuses to talk. When he is informed that the body...
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The first book in Anne Holt?s Edgar-nominated series featuring Detective Hanne Wilhelmsen of 1222. A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, refuses to talk. When he is informed that the body was discovered by Karen Borg, a civil lawyer, he demands her as his defender. Days later, a lawyer of the shadiest kind, is found shot to death. Police officers Hakon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen soon establish a link between the two killings.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781410450722 (1410450724)
ASIN: 1410450724
Publish date: 2012-10-10
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 507
Edition language: English
The good things about "Blind Goddess": The story is told using some cleverly intersecting timelines in a way that makes the story less linear, increases tension and sustains some useful ambiguity The action scene - there's only one - not much else really happens, despite there being multiple killin...