The final nail-biting installment in the ten-part, award-winning Hanne Wilhelmsen series--bestselling in Norway and throughout Europe--from Scandinavia´s most celebrated female crime writer, Anne Holt.Police investigator Kjell Bonsaksen is a contented man in most areas of life, but for one mistake he made years ago that has rankled like a stone in his shoe ever since: in 2001, a two-year-old girl was killed by a speeding car while playing in the road in front of her home. The marriage of the toddler´s grief-stricken parents dissolved in the wake of the accident, and not long thereafter, the girl´s mother died under mysterious circumstances. The girl´s father, Jonas, was convicted of his ex-wife´s murder and sentenced to twelve years in prison. But Kjell Bonsaksen knew he was innocent. Now it´s 2016, and Kjell is looking forward to his retirement to the French countryside with his wife. An uncomfortable chance encounter with Jonas at a roadside gas station prompts him to dig out Jonas´s case files for Detective Henrik Holme, the resident cold case prodigy. Henrik doesn´t take long to convince his beloved mentor, Hanne Wilhelmsen, that Jonas was wrongly convicted for his ex-wife´s murder. As their investigation evolves, Hanne and Henrik uncover eerie connections to the recent suicide of a right-wing extremist blogger whose fanatic ideologies seem incompatible with a desire to die. Masterfully plotted, In Dust and Ashes is the outstanding finale to Anne Holt´s award-winning, politically and socially conscious series, confirming Hanne Wilhelmsen as a character who will "get in your head--and stay there" (Entertainment Weekly).