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Hello, this is the BBC World Service.
I'm Harriet Gilbert.
Welcome to World Book Club, the programme where you get to ask leading authors questions about their work.
This month, a special programme.
We're in the lovely Literature House or Litteraturhusse in Oslo, in Norway, and the book we've come to talk about here is a detective novel by one of Scandinavia's most successful crime writers.
A tense, twisty story set during a snowstorm in an isolated mountain hotel.
Its title is 1222, a reference to the fact that the hotel is 1222 metres above sea level.
And here to answer questions about it from an invited audience and from listeners around the world is its author, the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction, as she's known, Anna Holt.
Anna, welcome to World Book Club.
Thank you so much.
It's an honour to be here.
Welcome to the Literature House.
And outside you may hear people singing because it's as we record, it's in the run up to Christmas and they're all doing their.
Whatever it's called.
Jules Bour.
They're all yuling.
Anyway, well, it's a real pleasure to be here in the Literature House.
It's a spectacular building where we've got floor to ceiling books all around us.
It's quite important in relation to books in Oslo, isn't it?