Death of the demon

Resource Information

The work Death of the demon represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Death of the demon

Statement of responsibility

Anne Holt ; translated by Anne Bruce

Creator

• Holt, Anne, 1958-

Contributor

• Bruce, Anne, 1952-

Author

• Holt, Anne, 1958-

Translator

• Bruce, Anne, 1952-

Subject

• Foster children -- Fiction
• Murder -- Fiction
• Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
• Orphanages -- Fiction
• Oslo (Norway) -- Fiction
• Wilhelmsen, Hanne (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
• Boys -- Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Language

• eng
• nor
• eng

Summary

In a foster home outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's steely director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk, stabbed in the back with an Ikea kitchen knife--with Olav nowhere to be found--the case goes to maverick investigator Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to chief inspector in the Oslo Police. Could the child be a murderer? As police canvass the city for Olav, Hanne, working alongside the foulmouthed detective Billy T., orders an investigation of the home's employees. But despite her supreme deductive skills, she is hopeless at delegating, hopeless at pooling information, hopeless at sharing responsibilities. Can Hanne learn to trust others before her bullheaded instincts lead her astray--in the workplace and on the home front? Meanwhile, Olav makes his way through the city, looking for the mother who was forced to consign him to the state's care

Member of

• Hanne Wilhelmsen novel

Index

no index present

Language note

Translated from the Norwegian

Literary form

novels

Series statement

A Hanne Wilhelmsen novel

Target audience

adult