I’ve still got a cold, so I thought I’d read a mystery.
And it’s pretty good! Holt is a solid mystery writer — she’s got the craft down. So we get a murder, and then lots of police investigation with a myriad of clues, and then a quite surprising, but satisfying, resolution.
My only quibble here is the length. It’s 340 pages, and while there’s really no part of the book that’s boring, it just doesn’t feel like it warrants that length, really.
And now I’m wondering whether she’s begun to be translated. I mean, Nordic Noir is huge, but Holt isn’t really a Nordic Noir author — she started in the 90s, and the amount of grisliness is kept to a minimum, really. Let’s see…
Yeah, there was a hardback from Scribner in 2016, for instance.
But what does the critics think?
Right.
Sannheten bortenfor (2003) by Anne Holt (buy new, buy used, 3.60 on Goodreads)