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1222 [Kindle Edition]

Anne Holt (Author)
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'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 'Like a mash-up of Steig Larsson, Jeffery Deaver and Agatha Christie.' Daily Mirror 'Step aside, Stieg Larsson, Holt is the queen of Scandinavian crime thrillers.' Red 'Anne Holt is the latest crime writer to reveal how truly dark it gets in Scandinavia' Val McDermid 'A splendidly chilling read' The Observer 'If you haven't heard of Anne Holt, you soon will... A variation on the classic locked room mystery, Holt had capitalized on old-fashioned suspense to great effect' Daily Mail 'It's easy to see why Anne Holt, the former minister of justice in Norway and currently its bestselling female crime writer, is rapturously received in the rest of Europe - the build up of tension is slow but superbly effective. Holt's vivid depiction of claustrophobia, petty squabbles and mob hysteria is just as convincing as her evocation of the storm outside.' The Guardian

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1222 METRES ABOVE SEA LEVEL: train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens off iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. With night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and find shelter in a centuries-old mountain hotel. Before dawn breaks, one of them will be murdered. Trapped by the killer within, trapped by the deadly storm outside, Hanne Wilhelmsen's unease is mounting. Why was the last train carriage sealed? Why is the top floor of the hotel locked down? And, of course, what if the killer strikes again?
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1515 KB
  • Print Length: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Corvus (1 Dec 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004G5YVSM
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (81 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #28,136 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
murder in the snow 1 Feb 2011
By Cloggie Downunder TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
Anne Holt's latest novel is "1222". The numbers refer to the height above sea level of the town where this modern version of the classic crime story takes place. The story starts with a derailment just as the train leaves Finesnut on its journey from Olso to Bergen. Plenty of injuries, but the train driver is the lone casualty. Amongst the 269 passengers who are evacuated to the nearby century-old mountain hotel are self-indulgent teens, German tourists, a church group, a sports team, the unseen occupants of a mysterious extra carriage, a group of doctors (conveniently for those injured) on their way to a conference and retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen. Add some locals and hotel staff, a snowstorm to ensure everyone has to stay put, a murder (or two) and you have the definitive locked room mystery. Hanne is not Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot: there's no rubbing of hands together with glee at the challenge; she doesn't want to get involved. Hanne is paralysed, confined to a wheelchair, limited to the lobby level. Whilst relying on those around her for some pertinent information, her powers of observation and deduction are obviously acute and she has the case solved in time for the classic denouement when the cops finally arrive.
Anne Holt gives us a prickly heroine. She's cynical, perceptive, has a very dry sense of humour and an incisive wit. Hanne's inner monologue is a delight; her other characters and the dialogue are realistic and the action is non-stop. Holt touches on several topical issues and throws in a bit of philosophy. The Beaufort scale chapter headings are a fitting touch. "1222" gives the reader undiluted pleasure throughout: this novel is hard to put down. Marlaine Delargy's excellent translation certainly deserves a mention.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Got me thinking! 9 Mar 2011
By Tiptop
Format:Kindle Edition
This book is a bit of a strange one... in a good way.

I flew through the book at quite a pace, it's the 1st book I've read on my Kindle and I must say I really enjoyed the experience however that's a different matter. The story starts with a train crash in the snow and focuses on Hanne Wilhelmson who was injured in a shooting incident and is paralysed from the waist down. The story follows her rescue and subsequent time trapped in the mountain hotel in the middle of a storm.

As people start dying Hanne has to try and identify the killer without upsetting all of the guests whilst trying to work out who the mysterious guests are currently being guarded in the top floor suite of the hotel.

I got half way through this book very quickly and felt a bit disappointed as it seemed the book was very easy to read and that none of the plotlines were going anywhere however I was proved very very wrong! Reading the last part of the book tied all of the plotlines together in a very clever way and I almost had a lightbulb moment where several little things which had been niggling me throughout the book were explained and I realised exactly why the book had been written the way it had.

Overall I thought it was a very clever book and I thoroughly enjoyed the twists and turns at the end. I would definately read something else by this author...in fact I'm going to go and add some of her books to my wish list now!
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
No doubt there's something to be said for the various positive reviews shown here. However, if you were guided by critical plaudits on the cover of 1222 you might well be buying this because you wanted and expected an edge-of-seat thriller, - in which case you'd stand a high chance of being seriously disappointed. The premise outlined on the back is so good that you naturally expect the comparisons with Larsson and Deaver to be accurate; but, on the handful of occasions when I've found myself in Norway over the years and once the awe-inspiring scenery has become familiar, it's struck me as an almost catatonically uneventful country, and this novel seems to reflect that to a yawn-inducing degree. The reviewer who accused it of being slow-moving and repetitive spoke justly. Moreover, in the absence of any other source we have to accept Hanne Wilhelmsen's observation of events and human behaviour as definitive, while still noting that accident and disablement in the line of past police duty have left her at a mildly dysfunctional and misanthropic angle to the rest of society. For me, this results in an oddly gratuitous style of narrative and characterisation whereby, if personality and motive inform action at all, they simply fail to convince. Almost nothing happens; the dramatis personae fail to engage the reader's sympathy, one of the most winning characters drops out of events about two thirds of the way through and then barely reappears, and the menace promised on the cover completely fails to materialise. Most irksomely, there is a damp squib of a non-climax, as incoherent and implausible circumstantially as it is inert and lethargic imaginatively. The very end baffled me, I suspect because it may have been setting up something for a planned sequel and also referring back to an earlier instalment. If you have to read the whole canon to make sense of this, then for my money you're in for a real grind. It's hard to like or sympathise with anybody at all in this book, and difficult also to avoid a sense that the author is oddly out of her depth with police and anti-terrorist procedure, despite being trumpeted on the inside front page as former cabinet minister, TV news editor and police attorney, etc. The prose itself isn't too bad and the translator should be given her due for a quite stylish job - but there's a hell of a lot less true atmosphere inside this book than on the cover. If it's largely static drama rooted in human character that you want, you might be happier a lot further up-market with Conrad or Henry James than with Anne Holt; and if you hoped for the kind of thriller suggested by the comparisons on the cover, there are plenty of accomplished stylists emerging in Scandinavian crime fiction at the moment; for me, Holt is nowhere close to the best of them. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, - I've read a wonderful book, but this wasn't it.
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Great Mystery
This story is well written so you can lose yourself in the action. There are a good mix of characters and you don't find out until right at the end if anyone is a hero or an... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Katkin
A good yarn but somewhat implausible
I'm all for authors having a bit of artistic license but this book pushed it for me and it did seem to me to be something from a bygone era rewritten for a modern audience as it... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Cheeky Monkey
seriously lacking in thrills
1222 has a great premise: a train crashes in the Norwegian mountains, survivors trekking through a blizzard to the nearest shelter, an isolated hotel which is slowly becoming... Read more
Published 4 months ago by bennyben80
Exciting
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I read the kindle version. A gripping story. Once I started I had to finish it.
Published 4 months ago by Rea
A very good book indeed
The book opens with a train crash and ends with an Agatha Christie style denoument in which the protagonist Hanne Wilhelmsen , a retired police inspector reveals both the identity... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Book Addict
Sub Christie effort
On this showing, Anne Holt could be the nearest thing Scandanavia has to Agatha Christie. Putting a large group of characters in an isolated setting from which they cannot escape... Read more
Published 5 months ago by J. Burt
Different
I enjoyed the book, let me get that out of the way first. I read it quickly, which is a good sign, one day means it grips me, a week means that I'm reading it because I am mildly... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Bizgen
Poor and very bizarre
This novel was derivative, poorly researched and chaotic. The characterisation of disabled people was particularly offensive. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Emillie
Thrilling mystery
Well written and easy to read. A compelling thriller with good characterisation and a real page turner. Read more
Published 7 months ago by dali
Is this book a joke?
I have never written a review for Amazon before but felt compelled to put forward my opinion as my reaction to Anne Holt's `1222' was diametrically opposed to the critical reviews,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Joan Gibson
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