1222

by Anne Holt

Overview

A 601-es Oslo-Bergen expressz 1222 méteres tengerszint feletti magasságon elakad a jeges sínen, miközben a norvég történelem legádázabb hóvihara tombol körülötte. A 269 utas a magas hegyek közt gyorsan süllyedő hőmérsékletben kénytelen elhagyni a hóban rekedt vonatot, hogy egy több száz éves hegyi szállón keressen menedéket. A vihar elől biztonságban vannak, de pirkadatkor egyiküket holtan találják. Mivel a vihar nem csillapodik, Hanne Wilhelmsent, a nyugalmazott rendőrfelügyelőnőt kérik meg, hogy vizsgálja ki a gyilkosságot. De Hanne nem akar részt venni ebben. Kemény tapasztalatok alapján tanulta meg, hogy az igazság árát néha nem érdemes megfizetni. Az igazság keresése neki élete szerelmébe, nyomozói pályájába és mozgási szabadságába került: a gerincébe fúródott golyó deréktól lefelé megbénította. A kerekesszék, a gyilkos és a halálos vihar által csapdába ejtett Hanne egyre növekvő szorongásában a szálló minden lakója osztozik. Nyomozzon-e, vagy csak várja meg, amíg segítség érkezik. És közben egyfolytában szóbeszédek keringenek a 601-es titkos szállítmányáról. Miért plombálták le az utolsó vagont? Miért zárták le a szálló fölső szintjét? Kit vagy mit rejtegetnek? És persze mi lesz, ha a gyilkos ismét lesújt?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789632547190
Publisher:	Ulpius-ház Könyvkiadó
Publication date:	12/10/2012
Series:	Winter Valley Wolves #08
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Language:	Hungarian

About the Author

Anne Holt is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. Her two crime series - featuring Johanne Vik and Hanne Wilhelmsen - have sold more than 5 million copies and are translated into twenty-five languages. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Riverton Prize (Rivertonprisen) and the Booksellers Prize (Bokhandlerprisen). She is the former Minister of Justice for Norway, and has worked as a police attorney, lawyer, TV news editor and anchor, media consultant and journalist.
ANNE HOLT is Norway's bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway's Minster for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 6 million copies of her books sold.

Editorial Reviews

Retired police detective Hanne Wilhelmsen makes her U.S. debut in Holt’s intriguing reimagining of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, the eighth in a series that started with The Blind Goddess. On her way by train to Bergen from Oslo, Hanne survives a derailment during a blizzard and ends up with the rest of the passengers at the Finse 1222, an immense lodge nearby. With nearly 200 people snowed in, keeping the peace is imperative, so when the body of a popular priest is found, all eyes turn to Hanne, who let it slip that she used to be with the police. Less than thrilled to be interacting with anyone, let alone investigating a murder, Hanne suggests keeping the body on ice (literally) until rescuers arrive. Unfortunately, more bodies start appearing, and it gets harder to keep the guests from panicking. The plot lags in places, but the prickly Hanne is worth getting to know. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

A passenger train derails and crashes in northern Norway in the middle of a blizzard, 1,222 meters above sea level. Almost 200 of the survivors seek refuge at a nearby vacant old hotel to await their eventual rescue from the secluded mountain retreat. The snowstorm intensifies, and the isolated passengers realize there's a killer among them as several corpses of their newfound companions begin to surface in the snowed-in hotel. As the death toll rises, wheelchair-bound Hanne Wilhelmsen, a cantankerously unsociable retired police inspector, grows increasingly inquisitive. Hanne employs her keen power of observation to take the lead and investigate her fellow passengers as the tension, distrust, and fear mount in their mountain hideaway. VERDICT Best-selling Norwegian author Holt (What Is Mine) channels her inner Agatha Christie to deliver a frigidly good whodunit as she introduces the first of a new mystery series. [See Prepub Alert, 6/13/11.]—Mary Todd Chesnut, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights

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