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The first intercrim thriller to be broadcast on BBC Four, Spring 2013. Sweden's elite are under attack.Two rich and powerful men have been murdered, and in the face of mounting panic - and media hysteria - a task force has been created to catch the killer.To his surprise, Detective Paul Hjelm, currently under investigation for misconduct after shooting a man who took the staff of an immigration office hostage, is summoned to join the new team.
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Wasn’t my cup of tea
- By S. Abrahams on 30-08-2019
Publisher's Summary
Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge?
The death shakes the country to its core. The hunt for her killer is complicated, intense and gruelling. Hanne Wilhelmsen must contain the scandal before a private tragedy becomes a public outrage, in what will become the most sensitive case of her career...
This is a story of lies, intrigue and politics. The Lion's Mouth questions who holds the power in Norway, and how far they will go to use it.
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- Carolyne
- 05-03-2017
Concentration
To grasp the character development and the often complex storyline one must really concentrate. For a listener like me it has kept me awake all night as I become so absorbed in the story I have to reach the end!,
A great story where the author does net tie up all the ends, she leaves some to the imagination of the reader/listener.
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- glassophile
- 20-06-2018
tedium
normally I rate Rosalyn Landor highly as a narrator, but here she obviously found this book as tedious as I did and turned in a very average performance. there's a toneless way of reading where it doesn't really matter if you get the emphasis in a sentence wrong, so you don't have to read ahead and prepare , and it feels that she uses that here.
plus the story is DULL DULL DULL. and characters?? Billy T as name of police detective ?? what's that about? don't bother
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- Jinglekitties
- 12-05-2017
odd narration
The narrator seems to have thought it appropriate to attribute Scottish (and sporadically Irish) accents to Norwegian characters. The plot had too many diversions from quite an obvious solution. Not Holt's best.
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- Familien Haugmaane
- 27-09-2016
Horrible pronunciation
I couldn't get beyond the first couple of chapters as the narrator makes a horrible incomprehensible mess of the norwegian names and places.
I have since read the book in norwegian and the story is fantastic, which makes it even more of a shame that the narration is so bad.