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The Lion’s Mouth

The Lion’s Mouth

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2000s : The fourth in the Hanne Wilhelmsen Series

  • ISBN: 978-0857892287
  • Translator: Anne Bruce
  • Genre: Crime, legal/political, Police Procedural

What you need to know before your trail

Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge?

The death shakes the country to its core. The hunt for her killer is complicated, intense and gruelling. Hanne Wilhelmsen must contain the scandal before a private tragedy becomes a public outrage, in what will become the most sensitive case of her career…

This is a story of lies, intrigue and politics. The Lion’s Mouth questions who holds the power in Norway, and how far they will go to use it.

Travel Guide

Oslo

Anne Holt’s Oslo is a very special kind of city. It’s is a mix of cold cases, tough streets and calculating killers.

This time there’s a keen insight into the very heart of Oslo Politics and the Prime Ministers’s Office:

Prime Minister Birgitte Volter was sitting in her office chair, her upper body slumped across the desk. She looked like a studewnt in a luxurious reading room, late one evening right before exams, just taking a little nap, forty winks

Then her assistant..”grabbed the phone with the direct line to the central switchboard of Oslo Police HQ”

Oslo Police

The police and legal team work from the police HQ in Gronlandsleiret 44 “which has no historical resonance unlike the previous building in Mollergata where the HQ used to be. The police seems to be bothered that their block is unlike the smart government buildings of Victoria Terrasse nearby”

Cases always seems to involve a conspiracy  or two operating high up in the Oslo legal system  and since Ms Holt was Norway’s Justice Minister, there is a keen sense of accuracy and realistic dialogue and other plot background within every book.

Streetview Maps

Norway- Oslo - Police HQ
C) Norway- Oslo - Parliament

Booktrail Boarding Pass:  The Lion’s Mouth

Destination: Oslo Author/Guide: Anne Holt  Departure Time:2000s

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