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Blind Goddess
Blind Goddess | Anne Holt
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The first book in Edgar-nominated Anne Holt's international bestselling mystery series featureing detective Hanne Wilhelmsen, last seen in "1222." A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, 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, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. A couple of days later, Hansa Larsen, a lawyer of the shadiest kind, is found shot to death. Soon police officers Hakon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two killings. They also find a coded message hidden in the murdered lawyer s apartment. Their maverick colleague in the drugs squad, Billy T., reports that a recent rumor in the drug underworld involves drug-dealing lawyers. Now the reason why the young Dutchman insisted on having Karen Borg as a defender slowly dawns on them: since she was the one to find and report the body, she is the only Oslo lawyer that cannot be implicated in the crime. As the officers investigate, they uncover a massive network of corruption leading to the highest levels of government. As their lives are threatened, Hanne and her colleagues must find the killer and, in the process, bring the lies and deception out into the open."
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Jen2
The Blind Goddess | Anne Holt
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Pickpick

Not bad.

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TheEllieMo
The Blind Goddess | Anne Holt
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I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

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TheEllieMo
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I love the use of colour in the cover of this Scandi-noir novel

#WhiteandBlue #FestivePhotoChallenge #WinterGames #ReadNosedReindeer @StayCurious @Clwojick

StayCurious I love the blue of that house. +2 4y
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Savugirl
The Blind Goddess | Anne Holt
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As I don't speak Norwegian, some of character and place names were too similar that they confused me a little. However, the story was good and I enjoyed reading it.

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Savugirl
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Just started this and so far so good

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Irisheyz77
Blind Goddess | Anne Holt
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Mehso-so

This was an enjoyable mystery set in Norway & I really liked the looked into a police procedural that was different from the US or UK. The characters were likeable but where this one fell short for me was that it was unnecessarily burdened things down. Overall I did enjoy it and will read more in this series.

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
Blind Goddess | Anne Holt
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This was just the kind of #audiobook that I was looking for, although it wasn't exactly what I expected. It's interesting to see the start of this series, published in the 90s, whose star became lesbian Norwegian detective Hanne Wilhelmsen. This first installment doesn't devote any more page time to her than to her boss and an important lawyer. Publishing has come a long way since then. A solid #mystery I definitely intend to keep going with!

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian I also appreciated this author's sometimes brutal honesty about characters and the fact that the crime doesn't have anything to do with sexual violence. 6y
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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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It seems all I've been reading lately are #audiobooks! This one, the first in a series about a Norwegian lesbian detective, is fantastic so far. Pretty dark, although not disturbing (to me at least). The rest of the book isn't this gross, but the 1st scene is of a woman finding a mutilated dead man in the woods. Having lifted him up, she lets go, letting his face fall into dog shit on the ground beside him, and then throws up. What an opener!

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Curious1
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Just had to find out how the Hanns Wilhelmsen character started. Introduces Billy T. Interesting plot. Blessed are those who thirst is in my September stack.

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Michelle_mck
Blind Goddess | Anne Holt
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Friends, have you read this? Is it a decent translation? Should I read it? #randomthingsyoupickupatthelibrary

andrew61 I've not read any of her books which is odd as i love scandi noir, but there was a very good tv adaptation of one of her books last year , if i remember the title i will repost but about a girl who witnesses a murder and there is an American religious cult involved. 7y
Michelle_mck @andrew61 I think I'm going to give it a go 7y
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librariankris
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Had been hearing about Anne Holt's Norwegian mystery series, so I picked up the first book. Enjoyed it, and looking forward to reading more. #24in48

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Lindisfarne
Blind Goddess | Anne Holt
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When I read a recent review of Ms Holt's latest book I looked her up on my TBR list and I had added this, her first book, in 2013. High time I gave her a go, then. Prime Scandinavia-Crime fiction! I'll be reading the 2nd book very soon!