When bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council's headquarters
in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case in the ninth
installment of the award-winning series from Norway's bestselling crime
writer Anne Holt whose tenth and final book in the series Dust and
Ashes will be published in May 2018--"Odd Numbers shows Holt's
storytelling at its finest" (Associated Press).
On an early April afternoon, a bomb goes off in the Islamic Cooperation
Council's offices in Oslo, killing twenty-three people. The Police and
Security Service suspect an extremist organization to be responsible for
the attack, a suspicion that grows stronger when threats of yet another,
bigger explosion during the planned celebration of the Norwegian
constitution reach the authorities.
As a special adviser on cold cases, Hanne Wilhelmsen has cut all of her
official ties to the Security Service and lives contentedly--or at least
as contentedly as someone like her can manage--in solitude with her
partner Nesir and their young daughter. A small computer monitor is
Hanne's only window to the outside until the day of the attacks, when
her closed-off world is broken open. Hanne is approached by her long
lost friend, Billy T., whose son Linus has undergone some disturbing
changes recently. As the mood of the city darkens, Hanne tries to help
Billy T. reach out to Linus and realizes that Oslo is up against forces
far more terrible and menacing than ever before.
From "the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction" (Jo Nesbo), Odd
Numbers is "prophetic" (Kirkus Reviews) and "outstanding...shedding a
vital humane light on one of today's most lethal social problems
(Publishers Weekly, starred review).
