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Anne Holt

Anne Holt
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Anne Holt

Anne Holt has worked as a journalist and news anchor, and spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway’s Minister for Justice in 1996-97. Her first book was published in 1993 and she has been translated into 25 languages. She lives in Oslo with her family.

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Blind Goddess will be released on June 05, 2012 in Trade Paperback
Feb 19, 2012
1222 will be released on December 27, 2011 in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 27, 2011
1222 is now available in Hardcover, eBook
Dec 27, 2011
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Welcome to 1222
Dec 12, 2011
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Anne on Hanne
Dec 12, 2011
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Chapter 1 from 1222
Nov 26, 2011
Author Appearances have been announced:
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Gloucester Township Patch, January 26, 2012
...following titles: Steve Jobs , a biography on the late Apple founder by Walter Isaacson 1222 , a mystery by Anne Holt The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories , a collection of short stories by Don DeLillo Black Thunder: An Ella Clah Novel , a mystery by...
Cleveland Live, January 23, 2012
...blood on the snow -- and maybe a gory smattering of body parts -- will be surprised by Anne Holt's cerebral puzzler. The Norwegian author's first translated book featuring Oslo detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is more in the vein of an Agatha Christie locked...
Book Reporter, January 20, 2012
...vociferous reader years, if not a lifetime, to catch up on the backlists of authors from that region. Anne Holt is one such writer; enormously popular in her native Norway, her work has been published here sporadically and parsimoniously. That is about...
TickerTech.com, January 20, 2012
...Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic Atlantic Monthly Press)The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books)1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster - Scribner)Field Gray by Philip Kerr (Penguin Group USA - G.P. Putnam's Sons Marion Wood Books) BEST FIRST...
Media Bistro, January 19, 2012
...Putnam?s Sons) Gone by Mo Hayder (Grove/Atlantic ? Atlantic Monthly Press) by Keigo Higashino (Minotaur Books) 1222 by Anne Holt (Simon & Schuster ? Scribner) Field Gray by Philip Kerr Penguin Group USA ? G.P. Putnam?s Sons ? Marion Wood Books) Best...
AL.com, January 19, 2012
...are ?Gone,? by Mo Hayder; ?The Devotion of Suspect X,? by Keigo Higashino; ?1222,? by Anne Holt; and ?Field Gray,? by Philip Kerr. This is the 66th year for the Edgar Awards. Atkins, who lives outside Oxford, Miss., is a native of Troy and played...
USA Today, January 16, 2012
...a look at some new and upcoming titles: Just out from Scribner:1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel by Anne Holt. She's one of Norway's best-selling crime writers and Wilhelmsen, her novels' protagonist, is a retired police inspector paralyzed with a bullet in...
Washington Post, December 30, 2011
...away with another. Wearily, Hanne is dragged into the inquiry. (Scribner) - “1222: A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel” by Anne Holt To say Hanne is antisocial would be an understatement. Since the shooting that crippled her, shes become an evil-tempered...
New York Times, December 23, 2011
...sea level and then demands that her savior go back into the storm for her wheelchair. Thats how Anne Holt introduces Hanne Wilhelmsen in 1222 (Scribner, $25), the first novel featuring this prickly Norwegian heroine to be translated (by Marlaine Delargy)...
Salt Lake Tribune, December 6, 2011
...Web-based tools, patent No. 8,070,056, invented by Gennye Hannover Feldman of New York, N.Y., Elizabeth Anne Holt of Salt Lake City, Marc Rubner of Scottsdale, Ariz., John R. Rose of Layton, and Nicole Milne Vollmer of Murray, assigned to American...
Lynn News, November 30, 2011
...paid to trek around the estate last month – during one of two events organised each year by Anne Holt, the estate’s welfare officer. Each event is held for a different charity, and this time £1,950 was raised. Riders had a choice of three rides of...
Star Ledger, November 27, 2011
...owes a lot to a sense of humor, as well as to a belief in astral retaliation. 1222 Anne Holt Scribner, 320 pp., $25 When a high-speed train from Oslo derails on its way north during the snow storm of the century, the 200-plus passengers are lucky only the...
New Jersey Online, November 27, 2011
...owes a lot to a sense of humor, as well as to a belief in astral retaliation. 1222 Anne Holt Scribner, 320 pp., $25 When a high-speed train from Oslo derails on its way north during the snow storm of the century, the 200-plus passengers are lucky only the...
Times Live South Africa, November 21, 2011
...occupation. Everyone knows someone who had some connection to these killings." And that includes the crime writers Anne Holt, Thomas Enger, KO Dahl, Gunnar Staalesen, Karin Fossum and Jo Nesbo - some of the genre's best, incidentally. We await their...