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WHAT NEVER HAPPENS
Anne Holt
Hatchette Book Group USA
In the study of a beautiful estate in Oslo, Norway, sat a young woman in front of a desk piled high with mail – fan mail. All her adoring fans knew that every Tuesday evening, Fiona Helle’s husband and daughter would spend the evening with his parents and give Fiona, famous talk show host, an opportunity to go through her fan mail personally. However, this was a different night. Instead of sifting through the letters and randomly picking one up to read, Fiona sat with her head thrown back, a trickle of blood running down her chest, dead. On the desk lay a horrible object beautifully wrapped in a piece of red origami, her tongue.
With this image in your mind, you begin the book of WHAT NEVER HAPPENS, written by Anne Holt. You will be captured from the beginning, in the spell that she weaves. She tells you of the personal life of the police detective, Adam Stube, and his beautiful wife, Johanne. Johanne is a renowned profiler who has been used in many cases that appeared to be unsolvable. The problem this time though, is that Johanne has just had a baby and with the motherly duties to this new child plus the problems of another little girl, Katarina who is autistic, Adam feels that he will not be able to call on her for help.
But when a second horrible murder takes place, then a third, and a fourth, he has no alternative but to call on her even though he fears for her health by doing so.
Hatchette Book Group has brought fans of crime stories another book by Anne Holt. Holt has had a varied career both in Norway and in the USA. She has over four million books in print.
Those of us who love a good mystery will find WHAT NEVER HAPPENS a book that is hard to put down.