The law career can give much of itself in the literary sphere. In fact, together with that of Medicine, it always ends up contributing new knowledgeable writers of specialized fields with a lot of play in any plot with the intention of splashing aspects of our reality as civilization.
Knowing the laws or knowing about medicine can lead to legal fiction or science fiction plots for each case, with true knowledge of the facts. Let them tell it to John Grisham, lawyer or veteran medical Robin cook, For example.
Anne holt it belongs to the legal sphere. His law degree is undoubtedly a good shaft on which to support the most legal and legal aspects of his plots of the black genre, filling that knowledge, yes, with his performance for a couple of years among policemen or even his knowledge of the world of politics occupying the Norwegian Ministry of Justice in a transitional phase.
But what is relevant is that Anne has been dedicating herself to writing for almost twenty years. A more than fruitful time with which he has earned the label of great representative of Scandinavian literature.
Top Anne Holt novels:
Offline
I don't know if it's because when an author stops publishing for a while he is received with more enthusiasm. But the point is that this novel seemed to me to be the best of his overall production. Hanne Wilhelmsen continues to be the researcher in charge of this author's plots. And on this occasion the case brings them.
Islamic terrorism hits the Norwegian capital with great fury. The Islamic Council of Oslo is blown up. Radical Islamists do not agree with the institutionalization of their people and their religion to reach agreements with the host countries.
If the explosion of a bomb becomes a critical event for a big city like Oslo in this case, a second explosion, larger than the first and in the center of the city multiplies the feeling of insecurity, while recovering the patterns of the most radical xenophobia.
In this book Offline, Anne also delves into the idea of ​​terrorism from within. That feeling that evil, hatred, is among us. Youthful disenchantment is a perfect breeding ground for directing violence towards the unhealthy ideal of destruction as a form of manifestation.
The idea of ​​this evil inserted into society like an endemic plague shakes the foundations of society. detective Hanne Wilhelmsen struggles to clarify the facts, but considers the difficulty of stopping this new form of terrorism.
An interesting crime novel that connects with very real and raw aspects of all current Western society. Anne Holt's pen creates a dynamic plot underlying the problems extracted from our reality, a conflict between civilizations that stains with its noir plot, the heart of so many cities today.
The blind goddess
Corruption at the highest levels can handle the most hair-raising threads with ease. In this novel Hanne Wilhelmsen appears for the first time, an appearance that ends up making you dependent on the character.
A heinous murder in which the victim is disfigured puts Hanne on guard against this obvious intention of concealing the identity of the deceased, for whatever obscure motive, usually a reckoning. But…, the reckoning can also occur among the highest spheres.
As you read, you discover that the lucrative drug business, free of taxes and free to use it for any need, can not only serve to enrich but to occupy it in much more serious matters. The underworld and the secret services, the police and the justice… Anne Holt leaves no head puppet in this Machiavellian novel.
The joke
Like any self-respecting crime novel researcher, good old Hanne Wilhelmsen has worked long enough to plant an army of potential enemies capable of anything to get rid of her.
However everyone knows that Hanne is strong and very capable of defending herself by attacking. Good revenge must know how to wait for the opponent's moment of weakness.
And that moment is near for Hanne, the investigator seems to be reduced to the defeated person, everything seems to conspire in her closest reality so that her truths and her strengths crumble.
Whether Hanne can finally escape that ghoulish joke of fate will depend on whether she is able to discover that not everything that happens to her depends on sheer misfortune.
