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|title=The Lion's Mouth

|sort=Lion's Mouth, The

|publisher=Corvus

|date=November 2014

|website=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Holt

|summary=An interesting, politically authoritative detective novel which refuses to be pigeon-holed.

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This is the first Anne Holt novel that I have read and I am going back for more. Jo Nesbo is quoted describing Holt as 'the Godmother of modern Norwegian crime fiction' and judging only from identikit cover design – grey mist, loneliness, treacherous ice, snow-encrusted gun, red typeface to hint at fresh blood – readers could be forgiven for expecting another volume of semi-standardised Scandinavian noir.