[HPFGU-OTChatter] Minette Walters finds inspiration in Norwegian triple-murder

[Jamieson]

Hello all!!

I ADORE (!!!) Minette Walters! My Mum got me started on her by giving me
a copy of The Sculptress, and I was hooked. I finished The Breaker in a
day. Is there anything else after that? I believe I saw a new book in
hardcover...I'll have to wait for the pb edition of course....HP is the
only series I have bought in paper back and hardcover....

Jamieson

pengolodh_sc at yahoo.no wrote:

> Since there seem to be a number of fans of Minette Walters on this
> list, I thought this article might prove interesting to you.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> BRITISH QUEEN OF MYSTERY-NOVELS:
> Writes Novel based on the Orderud-case
> 10. apr 2001 06:55
>
> British mystery-writer Minette Walters uses the Orderud-case as basis
> for an upcoming novel. For more than a year she has had every least
> development of the case translated and sent to her.
>
> - I am deeply and endlessly fascinated. The Orderud-case is what I
> consider my type of story. It is an absolutely extraordinary story
> that completely surpasses a writers imagination, says Walters to
> Norwegian paper Dagens Nringsliv.
>
> Gains inspiration
> The successful British novelist, who has been translated to 32
> languages, says that she often gains inspiration from real cases, but
> that the books nevertheless are not blueprints of the cases. Her
> detailed knowledge of the Orderud-case will also not be directly
> reproduced in the new novel.
>
> - I do not use the stories such as they are, but rather as a basis
> for fiction. I think it should be a Norwegian who writes the
> documentary book on this case, she says.
>
> Still, she refers to the Orderud-intrigue as total inspiration.
>
> Psychological side
> - What fascinates me is that you have all the elements together: From
> the man with contacts in the underworld to the diplomat-couple who
> find a car-bomb, and the overhanging criminal-intrigue. Also the
> psychological side of the case is interesting, from the authoritarian
> parents to their son who was relatively poorly treated, says Walters
>
> The Orderud-case has not been referred to in any degree in British
> papers, and it was a coincidental quick visit to Norway last autumn
> that laid the basis for the mystery-queen's interest.
>
> - Everybody around me was so full of this case, and they all had
> their theories. Since then I have brought myself up to speed on this
> case, says Walters.
>
> ------------------------------
>
> The Orderud-case, also known as "The Triple-Murder", has has bogged
> down Norwegian press for more than a year.  Here is a bit more about
> the case.
>
> Anne Orderud Paust was the personal secretary of then Minister of
> Defence Dag Jostein Fjrvoll, while her husband Per Paust was a
> diplomat, when on July 16th 1998, a dynamite-bomb was discovered
> under her car. On August 12th that year, somebody attempted to put
> fire on their apartment-building - a leak propane-tank had been
> placed their, gas was splattered over the floor of the entrance-hall
> and somebody had tried to put fire to it, unsuccessfully. At that
> time it also became known that somebody had tried to assault Per
> Paust in 1996. The police-investigation concluded that the
> assassination-attempts were not related to the couple's work.
>
> The two moved to New York later that summer, Per Paust substituting
> as Norwegian Consul General in New York. January 1999 they returned
> to Norway. On May 6th that year, Per Paust died from natural causes.
> On May 23rd, the bodies of Anne Orderud Paust and her parents Anne
> Marie Orderud and Kristian Orderud were discovered at the in-law
> house at Orderud-farm, all three shot several times.
>
> The murder made big headlines in Norway, as something like this is
> very uncommon. The investigation was high-profile, and Headlines
> again exploded as police arrested Anne Orderud's brother Per Orderud,
> his 18 year younger wife Veronica Orderud, her sister, former nude-
> model Kristin Kirkemo and Kristin's former boyfriend Lars Grnnerd,
> a known criminal, convicted on several charges related to auto-theft,
> drug-possession with the intent to sell and fencing (receipt of
> stolen property).
>
> The current theory is that the murder arouse from a family-feud,
> founded on Anne Maria and Kristian Orderud refusing to let Per
> Orderud inherit the family-farm, instead letting it go to Anne
> Orderud Paust.  At the time, Per Orderud had been running the farm
> for a number of years, his parents having moved to another house on
> the property.  [There is in Norway a tradition what when a farm is
> taken over by a new owner because the previous owners are to old to
> run it, he lets the previous owners stay "p kr" (literal
> translation:  "on terms"), meaning they get accommodation and life-
> support from the new owner  this will be included as a term in the
> contract.  It is particularly common when a family-farm is taken over
> by a younger member of the family.]
>
> As I type this, it is only a short while till the start of the trial.
> There is however still trouble with finding qualified jurors, and the
> counsel of one defendant tries to have the assistant counsel of one
> of the other defendants thrown from the case. The charges are as
> follows:
>
> "The autumn of 1998 Veronica and Per Kristian Orderud turned to
> Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland and Lars Grnnerd with a request for the
> acquisition of firearms.
>
> Per Kristian Orderud then proceeded to give Lars Grnnerd money for
> this acquisition.
> On December 22nd 1998 Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland used parts of this
> sum to buy two pistols calibre .22 with ammunition from an individual
> in Molde.
>
> The Christmas-party
>
> During a visit at Orderud farm December 23rd same year, she handed
> the guns and ammunition over to Veronica and Per Kristian Orderud.
>
> Per and Veronica Orderud.
>
> On the same evening and or the following night Veronica and Per
> Kristian Orderud, Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland and Lars Grnnerd
> planned in greater detail how the murders of Kristian Magnus Orderud,
> Marie Orderud and Anne Orderud Paust should be carried out. Veronica
> and Per Kristian Orderud were at this occasion also given
> instructions in the use of the weapons.
>
> Change of Weapons
>
> The night before April 3rd on Orderud farm, Per Kristian Orderud
> received a revolver calibre .38 with ammunition in exchange for one
> of the pistols that Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland had provided. The
> change of weapons took place on the initiative of Per Kristian
> Orderud. Following premeditation, the murders were carried out as
> follows:
>
> The Triple-murder
>
> A. The night before Saturday May 22nd 1999 in the in-law-house at
> Orderud farm, Kristian Magnus Orderud was shot in his chest and neck
> with a revolver calibre .38 and a pistol calibre .22, killing him.
>
> B. The night before Saturday May 22nd 1999 in the in-law-house at
> Orderud farm, Marie Orderud was shot in her chest, neck and abdomen
> with a revolver calibre .38 and a pistol calibre .22, killing her.
>
> C. The night before Saturday May 22nd 1999 in the in-law-house at
> Orderud farm, Anne Orderud Paust was shot in her throat, neck, chest
> and back with a revolver calibre .38 and a pistol calibre .22,
> killing her."
>
> Best regards
> Christian Stub
>
>
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