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In this crime featuring Holt‘s heroine Hanne Wilhelmsen, she is locked inside a hotel during a #snowstorm and has to find out who the killer is.

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My first Scandinavian read. Brought back memories of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.

The translation was obvious from the way the unusual sentences arrangement. It still retained enough dark humour , sarcasm and emotion to make the mystery and suspense easier to bear.

The ending was confusing for me.

Challenge | Day 09

Simply and directly: I don't recommend these books.

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Jo Nesbø has called Anne Holt "the godmother of modern Norwegian crime," so I had to try her out. This is a solid, closed-room mystery with a couple of side mysteries. I love that the protagonist is a lesbian married to a Muslim and also in a wheelchair. She's very cool. A good choice if you like mystery/crime, but skip the audio--the reader tries for Nordic stoic and achieves robotic instead.

Meh. I finished this book but wasn't really interested in whodunnit. Maybe it was because even the detective didn't seem very enthusiastic about solving the murder.