Dead Joker

The Hanne Wilhelmsen Novels - Book 5

Dead Joker

By Anne Holt
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“Holt offers readers yet another dandy surprise ending.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

From Anne Holt, the internationally bestselling author of 1222, comes the next installment in her Edgar Award–nominated mystery series.

Chief Public Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud’s wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family living room. The cause of death: decapitation. Her husband, who witnessed the grisly murder and is himself covered in blood, immediately falls under suspicion, though he claims his wife’s killer was Ståle Salvesen, a man he’d prosecuted years before. Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is called in to lead the investigation with her old colleague, Billy T. Despite the circumstantial evidence, Hanne is unconvinced of Sigurd Halvorsrud’s guilt—that is, until a witness says he saw Ståle Salvesen commit suicide by jumping off a bridge days before the murder took place. Then a journalist at one of Oslo’s largest newspapers is found beheaded. What links these two horrifically violent crimes?

The demanding investigation soon clashes with a terrible crisis in Hanne’s personal life. Cecilie, the woman she has lived with for almost twenty years, has fallen seriously ill and doesn’t have much time to live.

With a savage killer on the loose, Hanne must ask herself: Is the truth worth chasing at all costs?

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    Hanne's Losing It

    This installment of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series is pretty perplexing for the first part of the book, because we are presented with characters who have no apparent connection. That's part of the fun of the book, though. Near the end , it all becomes clear. As for Hanne Wilhelmsen, she spirals into an even darker, more bitter and disillusioned person than ever before. I sympathize with her anguish, but I have a difficult time hearing her treat others around her nastily. I honestly don't understand why so many of the characters like her. Kate Reading delivers Hanne and the rest of the cast with exactly the voicing they deserve.

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