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Death in Oslo Paperback – January 1, 2010

by Anne Holt (Author)
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 624 ratings
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Death in Oslo
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  1. Book 3 of 5
    Vik and Stubo
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Little brown
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 2010
  5. Dimensions
    4.92 x 0.98 x 7.76 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0751537160
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0751537161
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little brown (January 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0751537160
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0751537161
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 0.98 x 7.76 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 624 ratings

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Anne Holt

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Anne Holt is Norway’s bestselling female crime writer. She was 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 and 1997. Her first novel was published in 1993 and her books have been translated into over thirty languages and have sold more than 7 million copies. Her novel 1222 was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel. She lives in Oslo with her family.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Death in Oslo
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2017
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fine book. intriguing plot. as with all of Ms. Holt's books, well written. for a capsule of Norway, read Holt.
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Maia
3.0 out of 5 stars Plot good, main female characters not likeable
Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2012
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The story is very interesting, excellent, in fact. However, I enjoy books in which the protagonists are characters I'd like to know better. Not the case with the featured female characters of Johanne Vik, a qualified profiler, and Hanne Wilhelmsen, a wheelchair-bound former policewoman. Neither are likeable. I can't warm up to either of them nor can I find justification for Hanne's sullen, anti-social, isolated lifestyle. Having been shot doesn't cut it. She wallows in self-pity rather than pulling herself together to make a positive impact in her community and country. Not an admirable characteristic. Adam Stubo, Johanne Vik's husband, who is part of the Norwegian police force, is a likeable character, but one wonders why he puts up with this self-centered, obstinate woman for a wife. And the useless character of the probably mentally handicapped child from Johanne's former marriage adds nothing to the story in any of the books I've read where she is featured. This is the fourth Anne Holt book I've read and it is likely the last unless I discover something compelling in the reviews I read about forthcoming books.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone has "some little secret"!
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2010
Washington D. C., January 2005, Helen Lardahl Bentley takes the oath of office as the first female president of the United States. As the crowd cheers, President Bentley is thinking, "I got away with it . . . ."

In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, businessman Abdallah al-Rahman is watching the inaugural event on television from his soundproof exercise room. To no one he says, "She actually thinks she got away with it!"

And in Oslo, Norway, watching the televised event, Hanne Wilhemsen speculates about the new president's spotless past to her friend, former FBI profiler Johanne Vik, and muses, "But there's always something . . . some little secret . . . ."

Thus begins "Death in Oslo," Anne Holt's intricately plotted third entry in the Adam Stubo-Johanne Vik series. This fast-paced thriller with Machiavellian overtones really takes off when President Bentley, on her first official state visit to Norway, disappears from her locked and guarded hotel room in the middle of the night. Immediately, the security forces of both countries scramble to find the missing head of state before the unthinkable happens. The task is complicated by territorial tensions between the two national security forces and infighting within the FBI. When Warren Scifford, head of a much-resented specialized team within the FBI, arrives on the scene to take charge of the American investigation, he requests that his former student, Johanne Vik, be assigned from Norwegian Criminal Investigation Service to help him. But Johanne doesn't work for the NCIS so Scifford instead asks for Johanne's husband, Adam Stubo. But Johanne has her own secrets from the past regarding her former FBI mentor and threatens Adam that, if he accepts the assignment to work with Scifford, their marriage is over. Adam, however, cannot turn his back on duty and reluctantly reports to work, angry that Johanne has chosen not to confide in him about this man from her past. Everyone, it seems, has "some little secret."

Anne Holt is a master at creating chilling characters whose scariest quality is their immense patience in stalking their victims. The international scale of "Death in Oslo" ups the ante for the consequences of failure in the eternal war of good versus evil. The ups and downs of Johanne's and Adam's domestic life provide an effective counterbalance to the international feuding between nations. This is definitely a suspense thriller you'll want to read, even if you haven't read the first two.
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MAY WOHLAFKA
3.0 out of 5 stars Translated Anne Holt book
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2020
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I didn't like the fact that the author changed the name of one of the main characters for readers of English!
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Mixi-mouse
1.0 out of 5 stars Not the author's finest.
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2015
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A very unrealistic and almost ridiculous plot and a tedious read!
Both the protagonists remain unpleasant and impossible to like them even a little bit.
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nora leibovici
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2018
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Not her best book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Passatemps agradable
Reviewed in Spain on July 27, 2020
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M'agraden tots els títols d Anne Holt
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Tom Priestly
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on June 30, 2015
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Anne Holt is #1 among Scandicrime writers
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veronique renault
3.0 out of 5 stars gripping
Reviewed in France on August 27, 2015
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in bon romanavec du suspence et des personnages attachant. j'ai tente d'autres romans du meme auteir mais j ai abandonné la lecture tres vite.
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Labarkley
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent place to be
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2015
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I love these books and this is a good one, great characters that are multi-dimensional. It's not a whodunnit, but a how and why they dunnit. She takes us on a Norwegian sleigh ride of US politics, it was interesting to see how Norwegians might react to a US president. The middle East comes into it and again it is a fresh , if slight perspective on this. I couldn't stop reading it, I liked the people in it and didn't want to leave them.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Australia on May 8, 2016
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Can't wait to read another Anne Holt. Liked the tie in of real characters to frame the fiction. Thank you
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