Death Of The Demon - Hardcover

Holt, Anne

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0753192888 ISBN 13: 9780753192887

Publisher: ISIS Large Print Books, 2014

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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 murdered at her desk late at night, stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife - with Olav nowhere to be found - the case goes to Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to superintendent in the Oslo police.

Hanne suspects that Olav witnessed the murder and fled, and she orders an investigation of the orphanage staff. But this, however, is one case where her instincts are leading her astray.

Meanwhile, Olav makes his way to his mother's apartment in central Oslo. When police finally catch up to him, Olav will lead them on a chase that will upend all of their assumptions.

The third instalment in the sensationally gripping Hanne Wilhelmsen series.

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Review:

Anne Holt is the godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction. -- Jo Nesbo Lively, unusual and persuasive. Holt writes with the command we have come to expect from the top Scandinavian writers. * The Times * Anne Holt is a thriller writer of the highest order. -- Liza Marklund Step aside, Stieg Larsson, Holt is the queen of Scandinavian crime thrillers. * Red Magazine *

Book Description:

The gripping third instalment of Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: the manager of a children's home is dead and a twelve-year-old tearaway is on the run.

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