Satellite People
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- 3,99 €
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- 3,99 €
Publisher Description
A gripping, evocative and ingenious mystery which pays homage to Agatha Christie, Satellite People is the second Norwegian mystery in Hans Olav Lahlum's series.
Oslo, 1969. When a wealthy man collapses and dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police Inspector Kolbjørn Kristiansen, known as K2, is left shaken. For the victim, Magdalon Schelderup, a multimillionaire businessman and former resistance fighter, had contacted him only the day before, fearing for his life.
It soon becomes clear that every one of Schelderup's ten dinner guests is a suspect in the case. The businessman was disliked, even despised, by many of those close to him; and his recently revised Will may have set events in motion. But which of the guests - from his current and former wives and three children to his attractive secretary and old cohorts in the resistance - had the greatest motive for murder?
With the inestimable help of Patricia - a brilliant, acerbic young woman who lives an isolated life at home, in her wheelchair - K2 begins to untangle the lies and deceit within each of the guests' testimonies. But as the investigators receive one mysterious letter after another warning of further deaths, K2 realises he must race to uncover the killer. Before they strike again . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Oslo in 1969, Lahum's outstanding second mystery featuring Insp. Kolbj rn "K2" Kristiansen and Patricia Borchmann (after The Human Flies) pays homage to Agatha Christie. Merciless multimillionaire Magdalon Schelderup dies during a dinner party at his Oslo home, surrounded by 10 of his "nearest and dearest," each of whom could be his killer. K2 plunges into a sequence of interviews with the six women and four men, who range from Schelderup's 60ish ex-wife, Ingrid, to Maria Irene, his 18-year-old daughter by his second wife. K2 becomes obsessed with Maria Irene, who happens to resemble Patricia, his enigmatic assistant. Over working suppers with Patricia, K2 shows that he's not the urbane Archie Goodwin he might fancy himself nor is stiletto-tongued Patricia the genial Nero Wolfe like genius she claims to be. The intricate plot, which has its roots in the Nazi occupation of Norway, builds to a shocking conclusion. In an afterword, Lahum cites Conan Doyle and Georges Simenon as other influences.
