The countryās new female prime minister has been shot dead and the gun canāt be found in Anne Holtās fourth mystery in the award-winning, internationally bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen books that are āa natural for Jo NesbĆø readersā (Booklist, starred review).
Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. Was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge?
Hanne Wilhelmsen, chief inspector of the Oslo police, is on leave in California, but when the death shakes the country to its core, she knows she canāt remain on the sidelines of such a crucial investigation. The hunt for the Prime Ministerās killer is complicated, intense, and grueling. When secrets begin to unravel from the Prime Ministerās past, Hanne and her partner, Billy T., must solve the crime before a private tragedy becomes a public scandal in the most sensitive case of their careers.
Filled with lies, deception, and the truth about government, āThe Lionās Mouth tackles the ruthlessness of political power [in] the most sensitive investigation of Hanne Wilhelmsenās careerā (Financial Times). āThe wonder and pleasureā¦is in how Ms. Holt weaves the strands of a political thriller, a police procedural, a locked-room mystery, and a domestic novel into a satisfying plotā (The Wall Street Journal).