Dimensions
154 x 235 x 26mm
A daring tour de force, as Anne Holt takes the art of the detective story to another level. Four years have passed since the events that first introduced us to Superintendent Yngvar Stubo and ex-FBI profiling expert Inger Johanne Vik. Inger Johanne has just given birth to their first child together but is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, convinced her baby will die if left alone for even a second. But soon they face more substantial threats. It begins with the morbid finding of a corpse: talk-show star Fiona Helle is found killed in her home, her tongue removed and left on her desk, cleaved in two. And when a second body, that of right-wing party leader Vibeke Heinerbeck, is found crucified to the bedroom wall with a copy of the Koran inserted into her body, Stubo is pulled from paternity leave to lead the investigation. Inger Johanne begins to see a pattern, but one that may end in the death of the investigating officer …