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Dec 1, 2011

1222, Anne Holt



The engine driver was the first casualty of the Finse train disaster but not the last.  Dazed and bleeding the 196 passengers are taken to the safety of the Finse 1222, an old Norwegian hotel close to the railway line, to await rescue. Among the passengers is former detective inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen, confined to a wheelchair since two bullets shattered her spine.

Finse 1222 has been cut off by the worst winter storm in living memory. Snow gradually buries the hotel, and Hanne watches as the passengers begin to turn on one another – and then one of them turns up dead.  Hanne is grudgingly drawn into the investigation and she has a pool of 195 suspects, 194, 193, 192, 191….

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