APLC does not exist. It is, however, modelled on the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Their homepage (www.splcenter.org) with its links and suggestions for further reading has been extremely helpful in my work on this book.
Fear Not could not have been written without patience, loving encouragement and stubborn opposition from my spouse of ten years, Tina Kjær. Thanks to her, and to our daughter Iohanne, who cannot understand why I have to spend so much time in my office for four months of the year during the final phase of every new novel. We are heading for brighter days, my love.
Thanks also to Mariann Aalmo Fredin for valuable help along the way; to Berit Reiss-Andersen for everything she knows about the law, which I have long forgotten; and to my brother Even Holt, who always has piquant medical refinements to offer. A big thank you also to Kari Michelsen, who in May 2008 at a beach bar in France persuaded me to abandon a project which had been under way for a long time and to write this book instead.
Finally, a loving thank you to Picasso. She warms my feet while I write, forces me out in sunshine or rain, and gives me wholly undeserved, unconditional devotion.
ANNE HOLT
Nydalen, Oslo 2009
Anne Holt
ANNE HOLT spent two years working for the Oslo Police Department before founding her own law firm and serving as Norway’s Minister for Justice during 1996-1997. Her first book was published in 1993 and she has subsequently developed two series: the Hanne Wilhelmsen series and the Johanne Vik series. Both are published by Corvus.
