1222 by Anne Holt

1222

Anne Holt

Yet another excellent Nordic crime novel: 1222 triumphantly updates 'the locked train' mystery for the terrorist age. Expect a read full of old-fashioned suspense of the best kind and a ballsy heroine in the shape of retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen.

Extract
The others were looking at me. All three of them knew I was lying. We were all thinking the same thing: the fact that another member of the church commissioners had disappeared in the night under slightly mysterious circumstances, almost exactly twenty-four hours after his colleague had been shot dead, was suspicious to say the least.
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