The final nail-biting installment in the ten-part, award-winning Hanne
Wilhelmsen series--bestselling in Norway and throughout Europe--from
Scandinavia's most celebrated female crime writer, Anne Holt.Police
investigator Kjell Bonsaksen is a contented man in most areas of life,
but for one mistake he made years ago that has rankled like a stone in
his shoe ever since: in 2001, a two-year-old girl was killed by a
speeding car while playing in the road in front of her home. The
marriage of the toddler's grief-stricken parents dissolved in the wake
of the accident, and not long thereafter, the girl's mother died under
mysterious circumstances. The girl's father, Jonas, was convicted of his
ex-wife's murder and sentenced to twelve years in prison. But Kjell
Bonsaksen knew he was innocent. Now it's 2016, and Kjell is looking
forward to his retirement to the French countryside with his wife. An
uncomfortable chance encounter with Jonas at a roadside gas station
prompts him to dig out Jonas's case files for Detective Henrik Holme,
the resident cold case prodigy. Henrik doesn't take long to convince his
beloved mentor, Hanne Wilhelmsen, that Jonas was wrongly convicted for
his ex-wife's murder. As their investigation evolves, Hanne and Henrik
uncover eerie connections to the recent suicide of a right-wing
extremist blogger whose fanatic ideologies seem incompatible with a
desire to die. Masterfully plotted, In Dust and Ashes is the outstanding
finale to Anne Holt's award-winning, politically and socially conscious
series, confirming Hanne Wilhelmsen as a character who will "get in your
head--and stay there" (Entertainment Weekly).
