- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Sphere (3 Dec 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751537160
- ISBN-13: 978-0751537161
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 9.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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When Helen Barclay becomes the first female US president, the whole world takes notice. And unfortunately for President Barclay, one man takes very particular notice. He knows her dark secret, buried for over twenty years. And not only does he have the power to destroy everything she's worked for, but he also has the ultimate motive. Revenge. Unfortunately for the FBI and the Norwegian police, nobody knows about this when Helen Barclay chooses to visit Norway for her first state visit. But when she goes missing from a locked, heavily secured bedroom, they are forced - unwillingly - to work together to find her. Has she been kidnapped? Murdered? Can the US president really just disappear into thin air...? Taut, gripping and chillingly convincing, Death in Oslo is a brilliant new thriller from one of the world's most popular crime writers.
About the Author
Anne Holt is one of Europe's most popular and respected authors. She has worked as a lawyer, a Minister of Justice, an assistant district attorney, a TV news anchor and a journalist. She lives in Norway.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This is the third of Anne Holt's novels to be
published in English.Once more it features the Oslo
detective Adam Stubo and his wife,an FBI trained profiler,
Johanne Vik.
In 2005 .Helen Lardahl Bentley becomes the first woman
president of the USA,four months after her inauguration,on
an official trip to Oslo,she is kidnapped.The Norwegian police
and the FBI uneasily join forces to investigate and try to find her.
The President has a secret in her past,is it this or something else,
that is behind the disappearance?
Perhaps not Anne Holt's best ,but nevertheless this is a well-crafted
enjoyable thriller that relies as much on characterisation as on plot.
published in English.Once more it features the Oslo
detective Adam Stubo and his wife,an FBI trained profiler,
Johanne Vik.
In 2005 .Helen Lardahl Bentley becomes the first woman
president of the USA,four months after her inauguration,on
an official trip to Oslo,she is kidnapped.The Norwegian police
and the FBI uneasily join forces to investigate and try to find her.
The President has a secret in her past,is it this or something else,
that is behind the disappearance?
Perhaps not Anne Holt's best ,but nevertheless this is a well-crafted
enjoyable thriller that relies as much on characterisation as on plot.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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"Everyone has a secret life. Even the most powerful woman in the world..."
"She thought she could get away with it. She was wrong..."
Here we have another in the current and considerable stable of highly original Scandinavian crime writers, courtesy of the translation skills of Don Bartlett, Bernard Scudder, Marlaine Delargy, Kari Dickson, and the husband and wife team Tiina Nunnally and Steven T. Murray.
This book is my first experience of Norwegian writer Anne Holt's writing, apparently her third, lauded by no less than Val McDermid and Peter Gutteridge. The very mundane title, no doubt a simplification of the original Norwegian one (which is not even mentioned on the title page) does it no service and tends to suggest a cosier fireside mystery, which it certainly isn't. Instead this was a roller coaster ride of a story that swept me away.
Holt weaves her credible and tautly written story from the proposition of a forceful US woman senator succeeding George Bush to the White House - the echoes of Obama's accession will resonate even though this was published in 2006. It is also a classic `locked room' mystery. The new President of the United States, Helen Lardahl Bentley, disappears completely and inexplicably from a locked and super-secure hotel room whilst on an official state visit to her family's `old country' of origin. The Oslo police and the Justice ministries are shocked, highly embarrassed and completely baffled; but squirm with even greater anger and indignation when the FBI and myriad other US authority figures descend on Oslo and bulldozing their way into internal investigations with casual arrogance (one wonders perhaps if this is not too impossible an occurrence?) and with all the tact and diplomacy of a herd of reindeer in a china shop. All too soon it develops that this is a conspiracy, orchestrated internationally with the complicity of several US citizens, reminding us that here are the chilling overtones of one or two entirely real possibilities of different sorts of 'international' terrorism.
One small angle which struck a jarring note was one of the ongoing characters Johanne Vik, a former FBI profiler and PhD, taking a back seat while caring for her two children, one severely handicapped. For me she seemed one of the weakest of the characters despite her considerable professional pedigree. And what really was the purpose of her unusual friend Hanne Wilhelmson beyond her presence in the apartment building?
In the paperback version I read, a Little Brown `Sphere original' publication there is one incomprehensibly careless and glaring mistake in its back cover description - calling President Bentley, Helen `Barclay'.
However, all in all, highly recommended. Five stars.
"She thought she could get away with it. She was wrong..."
Here we have another in the current and considerable stable of highly original Scandinavian crime writers, courtesy of the translation skills of Don Bartlett, Bernard Scudder, Marlaine Delargy, Kari Dickson, and the husband and wife team Tiina Nunnally and Steven T. Murray.
This book is my first experience of Norwegian writer Anne Holt's writing, apparently her third, lauded by no less than Val McDermid and Peter Gutteridge. The very mundane title, no doubt a simplification of the original Norwegian one (which is not even mentioned on the title page) does it no service and tends to suggest a cosier fireside mystery, which it certainly isn't. Instead this was a roller coaster ride of a story that swept me away.
Holt weaves her credible and tautly written story from the proposition of a forceful US woman senator succeeding George Bush to the White House - the echoes of Obama's accession will resonate even though this was published in 2006. It is also a classic `locked room' mystery. The new President of the United States, Helen Lardahl Bentley, disappears completely and inexplicably from a locked and super-secure hotel room whilst on an official state visit to her family's `old country' of origin. The Oslo police and the Justice ministries are shocked, highly embarrassed and completely baffled; but squirm with even greater anger and indignation when the FBI and myriad other US authority figures descend on Oslo and bulldozing their way into internal investigations with casual arrogance (one wonders perhaps if this is not too impossible an occurrence?) and with all the tact and diplomacy of a herd of reindeer in a china shop. All too soon it develops that this is a conspiracy, orchestrated internationally with the complicity of several US citizens, reminding us that here are the chilling overtones of one or two entirely real possibilities of different sorts of 'international' terrorism.
One small angle which struck a jarring note was one of the ongoing characters Johanne Vik, a former FBI profiler and PhD, taking a back seat while caring for her two children, one severely handicapped. For me she seemed one of the weakest of the characters despite her considerable professional pedigree. And what really was the purpose of her unusual friend Hanne Wilhelmson beyond her presence in the apartment building?
In the paperback version I read, a Little Brown `Sphere original' publication there is one incomprehensibly careless and glaring mistake in its back cover description - calling President Bentley, Helen `Barclay'.
However, all in all, highly recommended. Five stars.
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