Review: What belongs to me by Anne Holt
I read it that belongs to me by Anne Holt first time many years ago, and it gave me such chills that I could not release it for several months. The fact that I read her name on a post that Petronas had signed welling desire to read it again over me and omläsningen was a fact. And what a reading that Holt offers!
What is mine is a gripping crime novel with two seemingly parallel actions. However, it is only an illusion and only at the end, the connection between them clear.
Emelie is kidnapped and taken to a damp basement somewhere in the Oslo area. At first she is alone and afraid. After a while she was joined by Kim who suddenly one day disappear. She understands that she must be kind of uncle or else maybe she will also go down that same meeting to meeting. She comforts herself with her father will soon find her. Suddenly one day another girl made her company. Then also she again disappears Emilie begins to give up hope. She stops eating and slowly but surely wither her away, both in body and soul.
Police with Yngvar Stubø the head is quite handfallen.Varför kidnapped these children? What they have in common? All the children come from different parts of Oslo and the families do not even know each other. When the kidnapper begins to restore them to his mother, dead, with a note that says You got what you deserve is Stubø desperate. He contacts Inger Johanne Vik - a psychologist, a lawyer and a stint in the FBI - in the hope that he might help the police find Emelie who are still in kidnapparens violence. Same Fold are approached by an old lady who insist that Aksel Seier has been sitting by a jail, innocent of the murder of a little girl. . The curiosity of Bend initiated and soon finds herself with one foot in each investigation.
This sounds like the detective story whatsoever, but Anne Holt is so successful with this is to keep the reader in an iron grip. A grip that stubbornly hold while and who refuse to be shoveled away into a corner before the plot had its resolution, which makes this a real page-turner.
The characters are credible and interesting a and it goes really to take the tension that vibrates in the air between them, Stubøs and's tentative feelings for each other's frustration over the situation over his ex and their supposed autistic daughter, the killer's "no" compared to their victims, and not least the police frustration at not come murderer and kidnapper into life.
I would recommend this to all mystery fans out there. What is mine is undoubtedly Anne Holt's strongest thriller.
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Bokfakta
Author: Anne Holt
Original title: What is your middle
Year: 2001
Publisher: Pirate
Translator: May Sjöwall
Number of pages: 380
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