Anne Holt Biography
Anne Holt is a Norwegian author, lawyer and former Minister of Justice.Anne Holt was born on November 16, 1958 in Larvik, Norway. She is a writer and producer, known for Modus (2015), Salige er de som tørster (1997) and Blind gudinne (1997).
Anne Holt (b. 1958) is one of Scandinavia’s most successful crime writers with 7 million copies sold around the world. Holt is a former Minister of Justice, Police Attorney, lawyer running her own firm, journalist, and TV news editor and anchor. Her novels are intelligent, accessible and suspenseful, with engaging and intriguing protagonists. Tight-knit crime plots are paired with a focus on relational drama. Anne Holt is the author of two extremely successful crime series: the Inger Johanne Vik series (five installments) and the Hanne Wilhelmsen series (ten installments).
Anne Holt
Anne Holt Series
The Hanne Wilhelmsen series
- Blind Goddess (1993)
- Blessed Are Those Who Thirst (1994)
- Death of the Demon (1995)
- The Lion’s Mouth (1997)
- Dead Joker (1999)
- No Echo (2000)
- Beyond the Truth (2016)
- 1222 (2007)
- Odd Numbers (2017)
- In Dust and Ashes (2017)
Modus Anne Holt
Modus is a Swedish television psychological thriller series, directed by Lisa Siwe and Mani Maserrat, based upon the novel Frukta inte by Anne Holt and adapted for television by Emmy Award winning writers Mai Brostrøm and Peter Thorsboe. It was the most succesful Scandinavian TV series on Sweden’s TV4 in 25 years with an audience of 1.2 million.
Anne Holt Blind Goddess
Anne Holt Blind Goddess
Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.
Originally published: 1993
Author: Anne Holt
Followed by: Blessed Are Those Who Thirst
Genres: Fiction, Mystery
Anne Holt Offline
Anne Holt Offline
It has been eleven years since Hanne Wilhelmsen’s life was forever changed by an assault that left her wheelchair bound. Now, Hanne’s self-imposed exile is nearing its end. When Oslo comes under attack from Islamic extremists in a series of explosions, the city is left reeling. A militant group claim responsibility, but the Norwegian police force doubt on the authenticity of the declaration, and the group’s very existence. The unfolding drama is brought to Hanne’s door by her former partner Billy T., who is convinced that his son, Linus, is involved in the recent events. He begs Hanne for help. But Hanne soon learns that she cannot protect Linus, Billy T. or the people of Oslo. Those bent of destruction are one step ahead, and many lives will be lost before the truth is revealed …
Originally published: 2015
Author: Anne Holt
Followed by: In Dust and Ashes
Genre: Mystery
Preceded by: 1222, One Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty-two
Anne Holt In Dust And Ashes
Anne Holt In Dust And Ashes
“In 2001, three year old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina’s mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina’s father Jonas is convicted of her murder. In 2016, the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that the father might have been wrongly convicted. Holme and Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric blogger as well as the kidnapping of the grandson of a EuroJackpot millionaire.”–Publisher’s description.
Originally published: 2016
Author: Anne Holt
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
Preceded by: Odd Numbers: Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Nine, Offline
Anne Holt Modus
Modus was originally Published as Fear Not in 2009 by Anne Holt.
Anne Holt Modus
The silent, snow-covered streets of Oslo are a perfect scene of Christmas tranquillity. But as the bells toll for the last Sunday of Advent, a boy’s body washes up near the shoreline of the city’s Aker Bridge. His corpse is unrecognisable. Nobody has bothered to report him missing. One week later Eva Karin Lysgaard, the bishop of Bergen, is found stabbed to death on a deserted street. Eva is a popular public figure, a sixty-two year-old grandmother: why was she on a lone errand in the deserted city, on the night before Christmas? Johanne Vik, criminal researcher and police profiler, is called in to untangle the motivation behind the bishop’s murder. But with her husband at the head of this increasingly high-profile investigation, Vik’s association with the case is under intense scrutiny. And why does Lysgaard’s shocking death lead her towards the sad death of an unknown boy?
Author: Anne Holt
Copyright date: 2016
Genres: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Crime Fiction
Anne Holt 1222
Anne Holt 1222
From Norway’s bestselling female crime writer comes a suspenseful locked-room mystery set in an isolated hotel in Norway, where guests stranded during a monumental snowstorm start turning up dead.
A TRAIN ON ITS WAY to the northern reaches of Norway derails during a massive blizzard, 1,222 meters above sea level. The passengers abandon the train for a nearby hotel, centuries-old and practically empty, except for the staff. With plenty of food and shelter from the storm, the passengers think they are safe, until one of them is found dead the next morning.
With no sign of rescue, and the storm continuing to rage, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate. Paralysed by a bullet lodged in her spine, Hanne has no desire to get involved. But she is slowly coaxed back into her old habits as her curiosity and natural talent for observation force her to take an interest in the passengers and their secrets. When another body turns up, Hanne realizes that time is running out, and she must act fast before panic takes over. Complicating things is the presence of a mysterious guest, who had travelled in a private rail car at the end of the train and was evacuated first to the top floor of the hotel. No one knows who the guest is, or why armed guards are needed, but it is making everyone uneasy. Hanne has her suspicions, but she keeps them to herself.
Trapped in her wheelchair, trapped by the storm, and now trapped with a killer, Hanne must fit the pieces of the puzzle together before the killer strikes again.
Originally published: 2007
Author: Anne Holt
Precededby: Beyond the Truth
Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense
Followed by: Odd Numbers: Hanne Wilhelmsen Book Nine, Offline
Nominations: Edgar Award for Best Novel
Dead Joker Anne Holt
Dead Joker is a Fiction, Mystery, Suspense book by Anne Holt
Dead Joker Anne Holt
From Anne Holt, the internationally bestselling author of 1222—called the “godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction” by Jo Nesbø—the next installment of the Edgar Award nominated-mystery series finds Hanne Wilhelmsen caught at a deadly crossroads…
Chief Public Prosecutor Sigurd Halvorsrud’s wife is found dead in front of the fireplace in the family living room. The cause of death: she has been brutally decapitated. 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?
Anne Holt Books In Order – Bøker – Böcker
The Hanne Wilhelmsen series
- Blind Goddess (1993)
- Blessed Are Those Who Thirst (1994)
- Death of the Demon (1995)
- The Lion’s Mouth (1997)
- Dead Joker (1999)
- No Echo (2000)
- Beyond the Truth (2016)
- 1222 (2007)
- Odd Numbers (2017)
- In Dust and Ashes (2017)
The Vik / Stubø series
- What’s My (2001)
- It never happens (2004 )
- Presidential election (2006 )
- Pengemannen (2009 )
- Skyggedød (2012)
Separate titles
- My culpa (1997 )
- In the heart of the World Cup. A football trip (1998 )
- Bernhard Pinkerton’s major mission (1999 )
- Flimmer (2010 )
- Sudden death (2014 )