Sunday, February 3, 2008

"What Never Happens"

New from Grand Central Publishing: What Never Happens by Anne Holt.

About the book, from the publisher:

All over Oslo, the city's luminaries are turning up dead in the most macabre of ways in a depraved version of poetic justice: a talk show host with her tongue cut out, a literary critic stabbed in the eye. It's clear that the killer seeks some kind of retribution, but for what?

Police commissioner Adam Stubo and former FBI profiler Johanna Vik have just had their first baby together but are reluctantly drawn into the investigation. As Stubo leads the inquiry, Johanna is haunted by a pattern that is too terrifying to be true. Time is running out to stop the killer or killers who show no sign of stopping....