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"* 'Anne Holt is the latest crime writer to reveal how truly dark it gets in Scandinavia' - Val McDermid * 'A pleasure from start to finish... a dazzling and classic crime story and a brilliant thriller' - Bokavisen, Norway * 'A fascinating, extremely modern homage to the classic detective novel' - Der Spiegel, Germany * 'Holt updates the classic locked-room-mystery with such bravado that on the last page the reader can only give a deep sigh of contentment' - Aamulehti, Finland * 'A masterpiece in the genre, a real non-stop read' - Skanska Dagbladet, Sweden"
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A snowbound mountain pass, a derailed train, a locked, shuttered and heavily guarded carriage, an apocalyptic storm, an ancient hotel, old betrayals, murder and state secrets: this is the Corvus launch of one of Scandinavia's hottest crime writers. 1222 metres above sea level, train 601 from Oslo to Bergen careens of iced rails as the worst snowstorm in Norwegian history gathers force around it. Marooned in the high mountains with night falling and the temperature plummeting, its 269 passengers are forced to abandon their snowbound train and decamp to a centuries-old mountain hotel. They ought to be safe from the storm here, but as dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered. With the storm showing no sign of abating, retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate. But Hanne has no wish to get involved. She has learned the hard way that truth comes at a price and sometimes that price just isn't worth paying. Her pursuit of truth and justice has cost her the love of her life, her career in the Oslo Police Department and her mobility: she is paralysed from the waist down by a bullet lodged in her spine. Trapped in a wheelchair, trapped by the killer within, trapped by the deadly storm outside, Hanne's growing unease is shared by everyone in the hotel. Should she investigate, or should she just wait for help to arrive? And all the time rumours swirl about a secret cargo carried by train 601. Why was the last carriage sealed? Why is the top floor of the hotel locked down? Who or what is being concealed? And, of course, what if the killer strikes again? It is suitable for fans of Val McDermid, Henning Mankell, Steig Larsson and the TV series "Wallander".
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Der Beginn dieses Krimis ist fesselnd und originell: Ein Zug entgleist hoch in den Bergen, die Fahrgäste müssen in ein Hotel evakuiert werden, und anschließend gibt es eine Leiche. Auch wenn das zuerst wie eine skandinavische Neuafulage der klassischen "Locked Room"-Mysteries anmutet, ist es aber keine: Dafür sind zu viele Leute mit im Hotel - über 200 - und es kann also quasi jeder gewesen sein.
Nach dem packenden Einstieg senkt sich dann aber die Spannungskurve. Es treten eine ganze Menge Charaktere auf, die alle nicht besonders interessat oder glauwürdig sind, und die auch keine Clues zur Lösung des Verbrechens anbieten. Der Schnee fällt weiter und es wird viel diskutiert, und es gibt auch noch ein rätselhaftes Detail mit einem versiegelten Waggon aus dem Zug, dessen Passagiere unbekannt sind und offenbar in einer oberen Etage des Hotels abgeschirmt werden. So richtig spannend wird es deswegen aber nicht. Mitten drin ist die seit einem Revolverangriff querschnittsgelähmte Kommissarin, die als sagen wir mal diplomatisch, kantiger Charakter angelegt ist. Man könnte auch sagen: Anne Holt tut eigentlich alles, damit man ihre Heldin nicht mag. Die Lösung deutet sich erst ziemlich weit gegen Ende an und ist dann auch nicht total umwerfend.
Insgesamt ein Durchschnittskrimi, den man im eingeschneiten ICE sehr gut lesen kann, wenn gerade nichts anderes in der Nähe ist. Anne Holt hat weder die klare moralische Botschaft von Henning Mankell, noch das kalte Schaudern bei Mo Hayder, noch die herausragende weibliche Hauptfigur wie Stieg Larsson oder den zerkämpften Helden und Kommissar wie Ian Rankin. Es entsteht auch der Eindruck, dass gerade dieses Buch zu schnell geschrieben und verlegt worden ist - die Idee und der Einstieg ist wirklich gut, aber dann wird es eben schnell schwächer. Fazit: Am besten aus der Bücherei ausleihen, nur die ersten 20 Seiten lesen, beim nächsten Krimi von Anne Holt weitersehen.
Nach dem packenden Einstieg senkt sich dann aber die Spannungskurve. Es treten eine ganze Menge Charaktere auf, die alle nicht besonders interessat oder glauwürdig sind, und die auch keine Clues zur Lösung des Verbrechens anbieten. Der Schnee fällt weiter und es wird viel diskutiert, und es gibt auch noch ein rätselhaftes Detail mit einem versiegelten Waggon aus dem Zug, dessen Passagiere unbekannt sind und offenbar in einer oberen Etage des Hotels abgeschirmt werden. So richtig spannend wird es deswegen aber nicht. Mitten drin ist die seit einem Revolverangriff querschnittsgelähmte Kommissarin, die als sagen wir mal diplomatisch, kantiger Charakter angelegt ist. Man könnte auch sagen: Anne Holt tut eigentlich alles, damit man ihre Heldin nicht mag. Die Lösung deutet sich erst ziemlich weit gegen Ende an und ist dann auch nicht total umwerfend.
Insgesamt ein Durchschnittskrimi, den man im eingeschneiten ICE sehr gut lesen kann, wenn gerade nichts anderes in der Nähe ist. Anne Holt hat weder die klare moralische Botschaft von Henning Mankell, noch das kalte Schaudern bei Mo Hayder, noch die herausragende weibliche Hauptfigur wie Stieg Larsson oder den zerkämpften Helden und Kommissar wie Ian Rankin. Es entsteht auch der Eindruck, dass gerade dieses Buch zu schnell geschrieben und verlegt worden ist - die Idee und der Einstieg ist wirklich gut, aber dann wird es eben schnell schwächer. Fazit: Am besten aus der Bücherei ausleihen, nur die ersten 20 Seiten lesen, beim nächsten Krimi von Anne Holt weitersehen.
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And then there were none
2. November 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I need to read this Agatha Christie classic. I'm overdue, because this is the second novel I've read in the past few months that owes a significant debt to Ms. Christie's novel. And that's not a criticism. It's a brilliant structure, and it's used to good effect in Anne Holt's latest, 1222.
I'll start by noting the unusual title of the novel refers to the elevation (meters above sea level) of the novel's setting, and the name of a hotel at that elevation. In the opening pages there is a train crash high up in Norway's snowy mountains. Most of the 269 passengers and crew get off with fairly minor injuries, but they're trapped in the mountains by a severe winter storm. It'll be several days before organized help can arrive. Fortunately, a handful of locals form a rescue team and evacuate the passengers to the nearby hotel, which opens its doors wide to accommodate everyone.
The main character of the novel is a wheelchair-bound former police inspector named Hanne Wilhelmsen. I believe that Hanne has appeared in prior novels by Holt, but this is the first of the series to be published in the US. She's not a warm and fuzzy first-person narrator. In fact, she's rather prickly, but she's an interesting lady with a complex back-story, and she's a keen observer of human nature. In other words, she's exactly the sort of person you might want around when you're trapped in a remote location with a bunch of quirky strangers--and suddenly people start turning up dead.
Ms. Holt kept me guessing along with everyone else for the duration of this very enjoyable who-done-it. She embellishes the basic plot with several other side mysteries and red herrings. I warmed up to Hanne enough that I'd love to continue reading her series. Other characters were used more to fulfill their functions within the plot, but they were ably handled. 1222 isn't a major literary work, but I don't have a single complaint to voice. It was written to entertain, and on that count, I found it to be entirely successful.
I'll start by noting the unusual title of the novel refers to the elevation (meters above sea level) of the novel's setting, and the name of a hotel at that elevation. In the opening pages there is a train crash high up in Norway's snowy mountains. Most of the 269 passengers and crew get off with fairly minor injuries, but they're trapped in the mountains by a severe winter storm. It'll be several days before organized help can arrive. Fortunately, a handful of locals form a rescue team and evacuate the passengers to the nearby hotel, which opens its doors wide to accommodate everyone.
The main character of the novel is a wheelchair-bound former police inspector named Hanne Wilhelmsen. I believe that Hanne has appeared in prior novels by Holt, but this is the first of the series to be published in the US. She's not a warm and fuzzy first-person narrator. In fact, she's rather prickly, but she's an interesting lady with a complex back-story, and she's a keen observer of human nature. In other words, she's exactly the sort of person you might want around when you're trapped in a remote location with a bunch of quirky strangers--and suddenly people start turning up dead.
Ms. Holt kept me guessing along with everyone else for the duration of this very enjoyable who-done-it. She embellishes the basic plot with several other side mysteries and red herrings. I warmed up to Hanne enough that I'd love to continue reading her series. Other characters were used more to fulfill their functions within the plot, but they were ably handled. 1222 isn't a major literary work, but I don't have a single complaint to voice. It was written to entertain, and on that count, I found it to be entirely successful.
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GOOD...NOT GREAT!
26. Oktober 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I must be honest and state that I am either frustrated by Anne Holt's writing or my reaction to it. Anne Holt's works should be books that I thoroughly enjoy as I rate most of her contemporaries in the area of Nordic Noir in the 4/5 star range, yet her books start off really promising and then they fizzle out to me. This should not be the case as she is really able to write without weighing her books down with romantic scenes that some of her female contemporaries can't seem to get around. Yet, her characters are unable to be "emotionally attached" to and fall flat. This really bothers me as a reader and I keep hoping that it will change for me, yet, I believe this is my second or third book of hers I have read and it doesn't.
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Gripping mystery
31. Juli 2011
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I didn't have high expectations when I picked up this book. I mean, the title is so meaningless and the cover rather dull. But I was gripped from the very first page. After a train derailment in the alps of Norway, the passengers are stranded in a remote hotel for the duration of a violent storm. The protagonist is an ex-policewoman who is now confined to a wheelchair. Closed off from the world, the heroine is forced to connect with the other members of the hotel when one of the passengers is murdered.
If I were to sum up this book, it would be Ice Station Zebra meets House. The atmosphere the author creates is claustrophobic with the tension increasing in line with the rising winds and the number of victims. The ex-policewoman is a lot like the character of House, socially phobic but with an eagle eye for detail and a keen mind. Watching her wind her way through the suspects, reluctantly forming relations with a small group of trusted allies, and solving the murder - which subsequently turns into murders - is a pure joy.
The denouement was classic Columbo with the suspects gathered in the same room and the heroine targetting one person after the next, slowly revealing each clue until she finally corners the murderer and solves the mystery. I could not put this book down. It was like curling up beside a warm fire with a drink of hot chocolate and watching those wonderful old tv shows.
If I were to sum up this book, it would be Ice Station Zebra meets House. The atmosphere the author creates is claustrophobic with the tension increasing in line with the rising winds and the number of victims. The ex-policewoman is a lot like the character of House, socially phobic but with an eagle eye for detail and a keen mind. Watching her wind her way through the suspects, reluctantly forming relations with a small group of trusted allies, and solving the murder - which subsequently turns into murders - is a pure joy.
The denouement was classic Columbo with the suspects gathered in the same room and the heroine targetting one person after the next, slowly revealing each clue until she finally corners the murderer and solves the mystery. I could not put this book down. It was like curling up beside a warm fire with a drink of hot chocolate and watching those wonderful old tv shows.
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