Anne Holt

1222 metres above sea level and the worst snow storm in recent Norwegian history is raging. Marooned in a mountain pass, 269 travellers are forced to abandon their train and decamp into an old mountain hotel. But as dawn breaks one of them will be found dead, murdered. Retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen is asked to investigate...

In an orphanage outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk late one night, - with Olav nowhere to be found - the case goes to maverick investigator Hanne Wilhelmsen. When police finally catch up to him, Olav will lead them on a chase that will upend all of their assumptions.

When Helen Barclay becomes the first female US president, one man takes very particular notice. He knows her dark secret, buried for over 20 years. President Barclay chooses Oslo for her first state visit, and Johanne Vik of the Norwegian police learns that there are those who would stop at nothing to destroy the leader of the free world.

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? 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...