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Carregando... The Blind Goddess (1993)de Anne Holt
  
Books Read in 2024 (699) Books Read in 2016 (2,367) » 5 mais Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  libreriarofer | Nov 3, 2023 |   On the other hand being an English translation of a Norwegian book and set in Norway made it an interesting read. Not the most enjoyable of reads. (  ) Balthazar-Lawson | May 19, 2022 | The story is told using some cleverly intersecting timelines in a way that makes the story less linear, increases tension and sustains some useful ambiguity The action scene - there's only one - not much else really happens, despite there being multiple killings - is well-done. It's set in Norway so there's snow and lots of polite aggression. Things that made *Blind Goddess" a 2.5 star read: I didn't care about any of the characters - even when they were the good guys and in mortal danger. The writing was too arms-length - too dependent on the narration of an omniscient authorial voice. I felt like I was reading a screenplay. There was so little tension that, even though the plot is quite clever, I was tempted to give up about halfway through and read something that provoked more than mild curiosity. What little tension there was depended on unlikely events, like a car failing for no reason or a man being so worried by a vague threat that he suicides. The relationship between the main police officer and the prosecutor was central to the story and yet, after reading the whole thing, I still didn't know what that relationship was. My advice: unless you're a true scandi crime fan, wait for the TV adaptation to come out. (  ) MikeFinnFiction | May 16, 2020 | Fredo68 | May 14, 2020 | ) JooniperD | Sep 11, 2018 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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HTML: A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital, Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in central Oslo covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he is informed that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her specialty is civil, not criminal, law. The young man is adamant: he will speak to Karen Borg, and to her alone. A couple of days later, Hans E. Olsen, a lawyer of the shadiest kind, is found shot to death. Very soon, police officers Håkon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two killings. They also find a coded message hidden in the murdered lawyer's apartment. Their maverick colleague in the drug squad, Billy T., reports that a recent rumor in the underworld involves lawyers employed in drug dealing. Now the reason the young Dutchman insisted on having Karen Borg as a defender dawns on them: since she was the one to find and report the body, she is the only Oslo lawyer that cannot by any means be implicated in the crime. As the officers investigate, they uncover a massive network of corruption involving the highest levels of government. As their lives are threatened, Hanne and her colleagues must find the killer and, in the process, bring the lies and deception out into the open. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Anne Holt
Publicado: 1993 | 303 páginas
Novela Policial
Serie: Hanne Wilhelmsen #1
Cuando el cadáver de un traficante de poca monta aparece a las afueras de Oslo, nadie intuye que ha prendido la chispa que dará lugar a un incendio de dimensiones colosales. Ni siquiera lo sospechan Håkon Sand y Hanne Wilhelmsen, que al cabo de unos días investigan también el asesinato de un abogado a quien se relaciona con asuntos turbios.Es Karen Borg, una letrada y antigua compañera de estudios de Håkon, la que hará que los detectives aten cabos. Ella encontró el cadáver y también se encarga de la defensa de un joven indocumentado al que acecha un peligro invisible. En esa misma dirección apunta el agente de narcóticos Billy T. a la pareja de policías. Es preciso destapar una red de distribución de droga a gran escala en la que están implicados actores de todo el escalafón social.La subinspectora Hanne Wilhelmsen, miembro de la jefatura de Policía de Oslo, deberá doblar esfuerzos en su lucha por destapar los ojos de la justicia… esa diosa ciega.