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The final episode of Anne Holt's explosive Hanne Wilhelmsen series. In 2001, three-year-old Dina is killed in a tragic accident. Her mother dies under strange circumstances soon after, and Dina's father is convicted of her murder. In 2016, the cold case ends up with Detective Henrik Holme who, together with his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen, discovers the case could be much larger than first thought.

A thrilling, intricate and page-turning new novel from the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction. A Necessary Death is the second instalment in Anne Holt's new crime series featuring Selma Falck.

Eleven years on, Offline is the long-awaited sequel to Anne Holt's massive bestseller 1222 and the penultimate novel in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series. When Oslo comes under attack from a militant group, but the police doubt the group's very existence. When Hannes former partner reveals that his son is involved and begs her for help, she soon learns that she cannot protect him or the people of Oslo.

When one of Oslo’s hottest celebrity chefs is murdered, Hanne Wilhelmsen is called back into action in “a nearly pitch-perfect procedural layered over a moving exploration of rejection and abandonment” (Booklist) in the sixth installment of the award-winning series from Norway’s #1 bestselling female crime writer. On a cold December evening, celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of Oslo’s police headquarters, sending a shock wave through the city’s hip in-crowd. Chef Ziegler had many famous associates and more than a few enemies among them. Was his murder a random act of violence or did someone want him dead? Police investigator Billy T. is stymied by conflicting information about the kind of man Ziegler was. It seems nobody really knew him: not his glamorous wife, his business partner, nor the editor of his memoir-in-progress. The case is hopeless until Hanne Wilhelmsen returns to Oslo after a six-month stay in Italy and teams up with Billy T. Working together, they are pulled deep into the nefarious world inhabited by Ziegler. Was he at all the chef he claimed to be? And can those who knew him be trusted? In the fabulous No Echo, “transcripts of witness statements alternate with Anne Holt’s penetrating psychological analysis of human desires, weaknesses, and essential decency, unveiling unexpected dimensions of her series characters” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Shortly before Christmas, four people are found shot dead at the home of the Stahlbergs, a wealthy Oslo family of shipping merchants notorious for their miserliness and infighting. Three of the victims are members of the family, and the fourth is an outsider, seemingly out of place. Cake had been set out in the living room and a bottle of champagne had been opened but not yet poured. Yes, family gatherings during the holidays can be difficult, but why did this one become a bloodbath? As Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates the case alongside her longtime police partner, Billy T., motives for the murders emerge in abundance; each surviving member of the Stahlberg family had good reason to want the victims dead

In 'Death of the Demon', Anne Holt's detective Hanne Wilhelmsen investigates her third case: the manager of a children's home is dead and a 12-year-old tearaway in on the run.

The silent, snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquility. But over the tolling of bells for the last Sunday of Advent, a black notes sounds. A boy's body washes up near the city's Aker Bridge. His corpse is bloated by the water, almost unrecognisable. Nobody has even bothered to report him missing.

A Grave For Two is the first instalment in Anne Holt's new crime series featuring Selma Falck.

The third instalment in Anne Holt's fantastically atmospheric new crime series featuring Selma Falck.

The gripping second instalment of Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: the detective hunts down a serial rapist - but can she find him before a father devastated by an attack on his daughter takes the law into his own hands?