In Dust and Ashes, Anne Holt
In Dust and Ashes, Anne Holt
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In Dust and Ashes
A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel

Author: Anne Holt, Anne Bruce

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 12 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/31/2018

Synopsis

The final nail-biting installment in the ten-part, award-winning Hanne Wilhelmsen series from Scandinavia’s most celebrated female crime writer, Anne HoltIn 2001, three-year-old Dina is killed in a tragic car accident. Not long thereafter Dina’s mother dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina’s father Jonas is convicted of her murder.Now it’s 2016, and the cold case ends up on the desk of Detective Henrik Holme, who tries to convince his mentor Hanne Wilhelmsen that Jonas might have been wrongly convicted. Holme and Wilhelmsen discover that the case could be connected to the suicide of an eccentric blogger, as well as the kidnapping of the grandson of a EuroJackpot millionaire.Twenty-four years in the writing, the ten books in Anne Holt’s internationally bestselling series is now complete. “Hanne is a character who’s going to get in your head—and stay there” (Entertainment Weekly). In Dust and Ashes is the exciting, not-to-be-missed conclusion to this terrific series.

About 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 for part of 1996 and 1997. Her first book was published in 1993, and her work has been translated into twenty-five languages. She lives in Oslo with her family.

About Anne Bruce

Anne Bruce has degrees in Norwegian and English from Glasgow University, covering both Nynorsk and Bokmål, classic and modern texts, written and spoken Norwegian, as well as Old Norse, Icelandic, Swedish, and Danish. She has translated Wencke Mühleisen’s I Should Have Lifted You Carefully Over, Jørn Lier Horst’s Dregs, and Anne Holt’s Blessed Are Those Who Thirst. She lives in Kilmarnock, United Kingdom.

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen

I'm so sad this series is ending as it's one of my favorites. Yes it's another Norwegian noir but it's also among the best. The characters, Hanne- who is in every book- and Henrik- who is her featured "sidekick" n this one, are damaged, complex, and very real. Hanne, by the way, is a misanthrope whi......more

Goodreads review by Bruce

With the right-wing terrorists they’d helped to apprehend in the previous novel Offline now on trial, Hanne Wilhelmsen and Henrik Holme begin investigating another cold case. Back in 2003 Jonas Abrahamsen was convicted of murdering his wife Anna; about two years after their young daughter Dina was k......more

Quotes

“Kate Reading’s performance is elegant, cool, and beautifully responsive to the text…There’s no need to have read earlier installments to understand or relish the plot, in which apparently unrelated tragedies…converge for a nerve-shredding climax. Nordic noir at its best.” AudioFile

“Offers more than a tricky plot. There is also fascination in seeing Ms. Holt enter the minds of characters troubled and admirable alike.” Wall Street Journal

“Sharp characterization, brilliant plotting, and a pair of puzzling mysteries, all of which play out against the background ticking of a loud plot. It seems that author Anne Holt (with an assist in the form of a fine translation by Anne Bruce) has saved the very best for last.” BookReporter

“For Hanne and Henrik, both convincing complex characters, all suffering comes down to the ‘good old sins’: money, sex, and revenge. Readers will be sorry to see the last of them.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This tenth and final book in this bestselling Norwegian series is perhaps one of the best. Holt is an expert at creating multifaceted characters and riveting fast-paced crime novels.” Library Journal (starred review)

“In this tenth and final book in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series, Wilhelmsen is as intuitive, and prickly, as ever, as Holt explores further the relationship between Wilhelmsen and Holme. For fans of Jo Nesbø, who has noted Holt’s primacy in Norwegian crime fiction, and of the genre in general.” Booklist

“Holt closes her series with one of its strongest entries, combining a generous sensitivity to all with an unblinking portrait of a franchise sleuth who, pressed to defend the corners she’s cut, acknowledges, ‘I’ve become more pragmatic with age.’” Kirkus Reviews

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