The blind goddess
By: Anne Holt
Series: Hanne Wilhelmsen -- 1; A Hanne Wilhelmsen mystery -- 1.
Publisher: Corvus; Atlantic Books, Limited
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780857897053; 9780857892324; 9780857892256
Subjects: DI Hanne Wilhelmsen (Fictitious character); Fiction
Description: A drug dealer is battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutch student, covered in blood, walks aimlessly through the streets of the city. He is taken into custody, but refuses to speak. Five days later a shady criminal lawyer called Hansa Larsen is murdered. The two deaths don't seem related, but Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is unconvinced. Soon, she uncovers a link between the bodies: Larsen defended the drug dealer. But there are powerful forces working against Hanne; a conspiracy that reaches far beyond a crooked lawyer and a small-time dealer. The investigation will take her into the offices of the most powerful men in Norway - and even put her own life at risk.
Notes: Also issued online.

Translated from the Norwegian.
Table of contents: title: "Like a mash-up of Stieg Larsson, Jeffery Deaver and Agatha Christie"; title: back cover. -A drug dealer is found battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, the young Dutchman demands her as his defender: he will speak to Karen Borg and to her alone. A couple of days later, Hansa Larsen, a lawyer of the shadiest kind is found shot to death. Very soon, police officers Hakon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two killings. But the tentacles of this conspiracy reach much higher than a corrupt lawyer and a small-time dealer.