Blind Goddess - Hanne Wilhelmsen, Bk 1 Author:Anne Holt, Tom Geddes (Translator) A small-time drug dealer is found battered to death. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly and covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk. When informed that the woman who discovered the body is a lawyer, he demands her as his defender, although her speciialty is civil, not criminal law. — A couple of days later, Hansa Larsen, a la... more »wyer of the shadiest kind, is found shot to death. Soon police officers establish a link between the two killings. They also find a coded message hidden in the murdered lawyers apartment. Their maverick colleague in the drugs squad reports that a recent rumor in the drug underworld involves drug-dealing lawyers. Now the reason why the young man insisted on having Borg as a defender slowly dawns on them since she was the one to find and report the body, she is the only lawyer that cannot be implicated in the crime.
As the officers investigate, they undercover a massive network of corruption leading to the highest levels of government. As their lives are threatened, Hanne and her colleagues must find the killer and in the process bring the lies and deception out into the open.« less