Anne Holt

Blessed are those who thirst

Detective: Hanne Wilhelmsen
Time:        Current to publication 1994
Setting:     Oslo, Norway
Cenre:      Scandi Noir

This is the second of Anne Holt's Hanne Wilhelmsen sequence. The plot involves both the solving of puzzling massively blood stained locations, christened "Saturday Night Massacres" but with no bodies and the horrific rape of a medical student.Inevitably they are linked. Wilhelmsen struggles to make progress on both cases whist by persistence the father of the rape victim, and by chance the victim herself, identify the rapist and plan revenge. The action builds well to a horrific climax. 

The frequent issue of crimes against mmigrant communities features in the novel.

In terms of underlying sub plot, Wilhelmsen is a covert Leasbian coming to terms with the need to come out.

Rating A+

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Previously Read Novels in the Sequence
Blind Goddess (1)
1222 (8)