by Anne Holt
About the Author
ANNE HOLT is Norway’s bestselling female crime writer. She spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway’s Minister for Justice between 1996 and 1997. She is published in 30 languages with over 7 million copies of her books sold.
Also by Anne Holt
THE HANNE WILHELMSEN SERIES:
Blind Goddess
Blessed Are Those Who Thirst
Death of the Demon
The Lion’s Mouth
Dead Joker
No Echo
Beyond the Truth
1222
Offline
THE VIK/STUBO SERIES:
Punishment
The Final Murder
Death in Oslo
Fear Not
What Dark Clouds Hide
First published in trade paperback in Great Britain in 2017 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.
Originally published in Norwegian as Skyggedød in 2012 by Piratforlaget.
Copyright © Anne Holt, 2012
Translation copyright © Anne Bruce, 2017
The moral right of Anne Holt to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
The moral right of Anne Bruce to be identified as the translator of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities, is entirely coincidental.
This translation has been published with the financial support of NORLA.
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Trade paperback ISBN: 978 1 84887 617 0
Paperback ISBN: 978 1 84887 618 7
E-book ISBN: 978 0 85789 422 9
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