Anne Holt Books in Order

In locked-down Oslo in 2020, retired detective Hanne Wilhelmsen finally enjoys the empty streets she has long craved, until protégé Henrik Holme asks for help with the case of an unidentified woman found in a car trunk. At the same time, rookie editor Ebba Braut hunts a missing manuscript, drawing Hanne into a tangle of family secrets, identity theft and literary fraud.

During a lunchtime meeting, a sniper's bullet kills Selma Falck's closest friend, a rising member of parliament, and wounds Selma herself. When more people tied to the politician are murdered, Selma works to uncover a conspiracy reaching deep into Norway's power structures while her damaged memory hides part of the truth.

Selma Falck wakes naked and wounded in a remote burning cabin with no memory of how she got there and a blizzard closing in. Piecing together the previous months, she realises her investigation into a high-level conspiracy has made her a target and that exposing the truth may be the only way to survive.

Disgraced lawyer and former elite athlete Selma Falck has lost her family, career and home when a powerful businessman offers her one last chance: clear his champion skier daughter of a doping charge before the Olympics. As Selma digs into Norway's national sport, she uncovers sabotage, corruption and a string of deaths.

Fifteen years after a little girl died in a car accident and her father was jailed for murdering his ex-wife, a retiring detective hands the dusty files to Henrik Holme, certain a mistake was made. With Hanne Wilhelmsen's help, Henrik links the old conviction to a far-right blogger's suspicious suicide and a new kidnapping.

An April bomb attack on an Islamic community centre in Oslo kills dozens and sparks fears of a second, even larger strike during Norway's Constitution Day celebrations. Dragged from semi-isolation, Hanne Wilhelmsen must navigate political hysteria, online extremism and her friend Billy T.'s increasingly troubled son to stop the next atrocity.

On the same July day that Norway is rocked by national tragedy, eight-year-old Sander Mohr falls to his death in his affluent Oslo home. Rookie officer Henrik Holme and profiler Johanne Vik begin to suspect the accident was staged, uncovering buried family secrets that powerful people are desperate to keep hidden.

During a snowy Christmas in Norway, an unknown teenage boy washes up in Oslo harbor and, days later, a widely loved bishop is stabbed to death in Bergen. While Adam Stubo leads the official hunt for a link, Johanne Vik's research into hate crimes suggests the murders are part of a far wider campaign.

A train derails high in the Norwegian mountains during a ferocious blizzard, forcing nearly two hundred survivors into a remote hotel cut off by the storm. Wheelchair-using ex-detective Hanne Wilhelmsen wants only to be left alone, until a passenger is murdered and she must unmask a killer trapped inside with them.

During her first state visit to Norway, the United States' first female president vanishes from a locked, heavily guarded bedroom. With international tensions rising, Adam Stubo and Johanne Vik must work in the shadows, untangling political vendettas and buried scandals to find her before the crisis explodes.

In the glare of Norwegian celebrity culture, a talk-show host, a politician and other public figures are murdered in bizarre, highly staged ways that seem to have nothing in common. As Detective Adam Stubo struggles to connect the crimes, profiler Johanne Vik must revisit disturbing cases from her FBI days to see the pattern.

When a shipping tycoon, his wife, their eldest son and an outsider are gunned down in their Oslo mansion days before Christmas, suspicion falls on the surviving siblings. Hanne Wilhelmsen digs into a dynasty built on money and secrets, convinced that the mysterious fourth victim is the real clue to the slaughter.

In Oslo, several children are abducted from comfortable homes and later found dead with the same taunting message about punishment. Detective Adam Stubo enlists academic psychologist and former FBI profiler Johanne Vik, whose research into a decades-old child-murder case may hold the key to stopping the new killer.

Celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is stabbed to death on the icy steps of Oslo police headquarters, leaving behind a swirl of jealous colleagues and hidden enemies. Drawn back from semi-retirement, Hanne Wilhelmsen joins Billy T. to pick apart Ziegler's carefully curated public image and uncover who really benefited from his fall.

When the wife of Oslo's chief public prosecutor is found decapitated and a journalist soon meets the same fate, suspicion swings between a vengeful businessman and the grieving husband. Hanne Wilhelmsen leads the brutal investigation while her longtime partner battles a life-threatening illness that tests every choice she makes.

Less than six months after taking office, Norway's prime minister is shot dead inside her own offices, and the murder weapon is nowhere to be found. Recalled from leave, Hanne Wilhelmsen navigates political rivalries, cabinet secrets and an increasingly dangerous cover-up to find the killer.

In a foster home outside Oslo, the hard-edged director is found stabbed at her desk and twelve-year-old troublemaker Olav has vanished. Hanne Wilhelmsen must untangle the secrets of the staff, the system and the boy himself before another tragedy unfolds.

A battered drug dealer, a silent Dutch suspect and a terrified lawyer pull Oslo detective Hanne Wilhelmsen into a murder investigation that exposes a sophisticated drug and corruption network hiding inside Norway's legal and political establishment.

For Hanne Wilhelmsen, a series of blood-smeared crime scenes marked only with numbers turns into a nightmare when they link to missing female immigrants no one seems to care about. As she hunts a possible serial killer, a rape victim and her father launch their own ruthless search for justice.