The first book in the Hanne Wilhelmsen series.
A drug dealer is found battered to death in the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When he learns that the woman who discovered the body, Karen Borg, is a lawyer, the Dutchman demands her as his defender. He will talk only to her.
A few days later, shady lawyer Hansa Larsen is found shot dead. Police officers Hakon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two killings, and find a message in code hidden in the murdered lawyer's apartment. The reason why the Dutchman insisted on having Karen Borg as a defender dawns on them: since she was the one to find the body, she is the only Oslo lawyer that cannot be implicated in this business.
But the tentacles of this conspiracy reach much higher than a corrupt lawyer and a small-time dealer. There are political figures in the frame. Hanne must work against time to uncover the truth.
©2012 Anne Holt (P)2012 AudioGO Ltd