No Echo, Anne Holt
No Echo, Anne Holt
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No Echo
A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel

Author: Anne Holt, Berit Reiss-Andersen, Anne Bruce

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 13 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2016

Synopsis

One of Oslo’s hottest celebrity chefs is murdered and Hanne Wilhelmsen is called back into action in the sixth installment of the award-winning series from Anne Holt, Norway’s #1 bestselling crime writer.When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Oslo police headquarters, it sends a shock wave through the city’s hip in-crowd. Chef Ziegler had lots of famous associates. Could the culprit be among them, or was this a random act of violence?Police investigator Billy T. takes on the case, but he is stymied by conflicting information about what kind of man Ziegler was. It seems nobody really knew him, not even his glamorous wife, his business partner, or the editor of his memoir. While Billy T. struggles to crack the case, Hanne Wilhelmsen returns to Oslo after a six-month absence. Hanne discovers that not only had Ziegler been stabbed, but he had also ingested a lethal dose of painkillers. As the plot thickens, Hanne and Billy T. are pulled deeper into the nefarious world in which Ziegler lived. Was he who he said he was? And can those who claim to have known him best be trusted? Hanne is determined to find the truth.

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 Doug

This series continues to grow on me. It's great to catch up with the disfunctional lives of the detectives so the murder mystery becomes almost a backstory. They are neither bumblers nor geniuses but operate in the real world like the rest of us.......more

Goodreads review by Helen

Glad to see the rest of this series appearing in English (for some reason a much later one was translated 10 years ago, now catching up!) Hanne is an interesting if exasperating character, and one can't help sympathising with the people in her life that she doesn't seem to think about too much. Some......more

Goodreads review by Stacia

I read this right after the previous book in the series, mainly because I couldn't stand not knowing whether Hanne Wilhelmsen was going to be all right. This was a good follow-up to Dead Joker. While the crime forms the basis of much of the plot, what I enjoyed about this book was the characters. I'......more

Quotes

“In this polished translation by Anne Bruce, Wilhelmsen quickly puts on her game face when a fellow officer is unable to solve the murder of [a] celebrity chef.” New York Times Book Review

“Impressive…Transcripts of witness statements alternate with Holt’s penetrating psychological analysis of human desires, weaknesses, and essential decency, unveiling unexpected dimensions of her series characters.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A nearly pitch-perfect procedural layered over a moving exploration of rejection and abandonment.” Booklist

“Narrator Kate Reading uses a steady pace and capable tone to recount the mundane details of the case and evoke curiosity from the listener…Reading evokes the rhythms of real dialogue between the many characters. Those who love listening to crime novels will be entertained as they try to solve this one.” AudioFile

Awards

  • New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
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