About the Author:
Anne Holt is one of Scandinavia's most successful crime authors, with over 4 million books sold worldwide. She is a former Minister of Justice, lawyer, TV news editor and anchor, and journalist. She has lived in the United States and now resides in Norway and France.
From Booklist:
*Starred Review* Oslo University psychology professor Johanne Vik hardly misses the emotional chaos of her former career as an FBI profiler. The Norway-born divorcee still has plenty on her plate, caring for her mentally handicapped six-year-old daughter and researching the case of Aksel Seier, a Norwegian man imprisoned for crimes she suspects he did not commit. When a series of young Norwegian children are abducted, Johanne becomes consumed by dark thoughts of the deviant mind behind the crime. At first, she steers clear of the case, which is spearheaded by Police Inspector Adam Stubo, a hulk of a man softened by grief over the recent deaths of his wife and young child. But when two of the children's lifeless bodies are returned to their parents' homes with attached notes that read, "You got what you deserved," she and Stubo join forces to stop the vengeful perpetrator before he strikes again. Meanwhile, the case of Aksel Seier is never far from Johanne's mind. Holt is a former minister of justice, a lawyer and journalist, and one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers. Her American debut (the first of a three-book series starring Stubo and Vik) is both an impassioned commentary on the responsibilities of parenthood and an engrossing mystery with an ingenious final twist. Add this to the growing list of Scandinavian crime writers now being published in the U.S. Allison Block
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