Thomas Enger
Pierced
Journalist: Henning Juul
Location: Oslo
Time: Current
Genre: Scandi Noir
This is the second book by Enger featuring Henning Juul. There is a key underlying arc. Juul was badly burned and his son died in a fire at his home. He has nightmares about it and the perpetrator is unknown.
In this novel Juul is persuaded to investigate the case of Pulli, a man imprisoned for murder who is proclaiming his innocence. His leverage to get Juul to help is that he promises to reveal what he knows about the fire at juul's home.
This takes him into a murky world of enforcers (bouncers/debt collectors) and the rivalries and jealousies between them. At the same time a hitman forces a TV cameraman into murdering Pulli. How that resolves itself is a sub plot. the death of Pulli drives Juul to solve the murder for which Pulli was imprisoned in the hope that he can work out what Pulli knew.
This is going to continue in other books.
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Thomas Enger Web Page (In Danish)
Previously Read:
Burned
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Monday, 19 August 2013
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
Anne Holt
Death of the Demon
Detective: Hanne Wilhelmsen
Setting: Oslo
Time: Mid 1990's
Genre Scandi Noir
This is the third of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, set just after Wilhelmsen has been appointed aDetective Inspector.
The crime involves the murder, one evening, at her workplace of the manager of a children's home. the possible suspects include a lover who has been defrauding her bank account, a colleague who has been fiddling the books, a husband who could benefit from a change in her will and a 12 year old boy with an ADHD problem (defined as MBD in the book) who has gone missing from the home.
The investigation is paralleled by a developing account, set in italics, of the mother's experience with her son and the attempts to get the social services agencies to support her rather than place him in the home.
It seems a dead end case but the pieces come together with a twist to reveal the murderer and with a final twist in the mother's story about a key piece of evidence.
The back story concerns the challenges facing Wilhelmsen in managing a case after her promotion and her continuing nervousness about colleagues knowing about her long standing lesbian partnership.
A+
Wikipedia background to Ann Holt
Previously read
Blind Goddess (1)
Blessed are thos who thirst (2)
1222 (8)
Death of the Demon
Detective: Hanne Wilhelmsen
Setting: Oslo
Time: Mid 1990's
Genre Scandi Noir
This is the third of the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, set just after Wilhelmsen has been appointed aDetective Inspector.
The crime involves the murder, one evening, at her workplace of the manager of a children's home. the possible suspects include a lover who has been defrauding her bank account, a colleague who has been fiddling the books, a husband who could benefit from a change in her will and a 12 year old boy with an ADHD problem (defined as MBD in the book) who has gone missing from the home.
The investigation is paralleled by a developing account, set in italics, of the mother's experience with her son and the attempts to get the social services agencies to support her rather than place him in the home.
It seems a dead end case but the pieces come together with a twist to reveal the murderer and with a final twist in the mother's story about a key piece of evidence.
The back story concerns the challenges facing Wilhelmsen in managing a case after her promotion and her continuing nervousness about colleagues knowing about her long standing lesbian partnership.
A+
Wikipedia background to Ann Holt
Previously read
Blind Goddess (1)
Blessed are thos who thirst (2)
1222 (8)
Friday, 1 March 2013
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+
Wikipedia Reference to Anne Holt
Previously Read Novels in the Sequence
Blind Goddess (1)
1222 (8)
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+
Wikipedia Reference to Anne Holt
Previously Read Novels in the Sequence
Blind Goddess (1)
1222 (8)
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