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<p>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....
<p>Jamieson
<p>pengolodh_sc@yahoo.no wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>Since there seem to be a number of fans of Minette
Walters on this</tt>
<br><tt>list, I thought this article might prove interesting to you.</tt>
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<p><tt>BRITISH QUEEN OF MYSTERY-NOVELS:</tt>
<br><tt>Writes Novel based on the Orderud-case</tt>
<br><tt>10. apr 2001 06:55</tt>
<p><tt>British mystery-writer Minette Walters uses the Orderud-case as
basis</tt>
<br><tt>for an upcoming novel. For more than a year she has had every least</tt>
<br><tt>development of the case translated and sent to her.</tt>
<p><tt>- I am deeply and endlessly fascinated. The Orderud-case is what
I</tt>
<br><tt>consider my type of story. It is an absolutely extraordinary story</tt>
<br><tt>that completely surpasses a writers imagination, says Walters to</tt>
<br><tt>Norwegian paper Dagens Nringsliv.</tt>
<p><tt>Gains inspiration</tt>
<br><tt>The successful British novelist, who has been translated to 32</tt>
<br><tt>languages, says that she often gains inspiration from real cases,
but</tt>
<br><tt>that the books nevertheless are not blueprints of the cases. Her</tt>
<br><tt>detailed knowledge of the Orderud-case will also not be directly</tt>
<br><tt>reproduced in the new novel.</tt>
<p><tt>- I do not use the stories such as they are, but rather as a basis</tt>
<br><tt>for fiction. I think it should be a Norwegian who writes the</tt>
<br><tt>documentary book on this case, she says.</tt>
<p><tt>Still, she refers to the Orderud-intrigue as total inspiration.</tt>
<p><tt>Psychological side</tt>
<br><tt>- What fascinates me is that you have all the elements together:
From</tt>
<br><tt>the man with contacts in the underworld to the diplomat-couple
who</tt>
<br><tt>find a car-bomb, and the overhanging criminal-intrigue. Also the</tt>
<br><tt>psychological side of the case is interesting, from the authoritarian</tt>
<br><tt>parents to their son who was relatively poorly treated, says Walters</tt>
<p><tt>The Orderud-case has not been referred to in any degree in British</tt>
<br><tt>papers, and it was a coincidental quick visit to Norway last autumn</tt>
<br><tt>that laid the basis for the mystery-queen's interest.</tt>
<p><tt>- Everybody around me was so full of this case, and they all had</tt>
<br><tt>their theories. Since then I have brought myself up to speed on
this</tt>
<br><tt>case, says Walters.</tt>
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<p><tt>The Orderud-case, also known as "The Triple-Murder", has has bogged</tt>
<br><tt>down Norwegian press for more than a year. Here is a bit
more about</tt>
<br><tt>the case.</tt>
<p><tt>Anne Orderud Paust was the personal secretary of then Minister of</tt>
<br><tt>Defence Dag Jostein Fjrvoll, while her husband Per Paust
was a</tt>
<br><tt>diplomat, when on July 16th 1998, a dynamite-bomb was discovered</tt>
<br><tt>under her car. On August 12th that year, somebody attempted to
put</tt>
<br><tt>fire on their apartment-building - a leak propane-tank had been</tt>
<br><tt>placed their, gas was splattered over the floor of the entrance-hall</tt>
<br><tt>and somebody had tried to put fire to it, unsuccessfully. At that</tt>
<br><tt>time it also became known that somebody had tried to assault Per</tt>
<br><tt>Paust in 1996. The police-investigation concluded that the</tt>
<br><tt>assassination-attempts were not related to the couple's work.</tt>
<p><tt>The two moved to New York later that summer, Per Paust substituting</tt>
<br><tt>as Norwegian Consul General in New York. January 1999 they returned</tt>
<br><tt>to Norway. On May 6th that year, Per Paust died from natural causes.</tt>
<br><tt>On May 23rd, the bodies of Anne Orderud Paust and her parents Anne</tt>
<br><tt>Marie Orderud and Kristian Orderud were discovered at the in-law</tt>
<br><tt>house at Orderud-farm, all three shot several times.</tt>
<p><tt>The murder made big headlines in Norway, as something like this
is</tt>
<br><tt>very uncommon. The investigation was high-profile, and Headlines</tt>
<br><tt>again exploded as police arrested Anne Orderud's brother Per Orderud,</tt>
<br><tt>his 18 year younger wife Veronica Orderud, her sister, former nude-</tt>
<br><tt>model Kristin Kirkemo and Kristin's former boyfriend Lars Grnnerd,</tt>
<br><tt>a known criminal, convicted on several charges related to auto-theft,</tt>
<br><tt>drug-possession with the intent to sell and fencing (receipt of</tt>
<br><tt>stolen property).</tt>
<p><tt>The current theory is that the murder arouse from a family-feud,</tt>
<br><tt>founded on Anne Maria and Kristian Orderud refusing to let Per</tt>
<br><tt>Orderud inherit the family-farm, instead letting it go to Anne</tt>
<br><tt>Orderud Paust. At the time, Per Orderud had been running
the farm</tt>
<br><tt>for a number of years, his parents having moved to another house
on</tt>
<br><tt>the property. [There is in Norway a tradition what when a
farm is</tt>
<br><tt>taken over by a new owner because the previous owners are to old
to</tt>
<br><tt>run it, he lets the previous owners stay "p kr" (literal</tt>
<br><tt>translation: "on terms"), meaning they get accommodation
and life-</tt>
<br><tt>support from the new owner this will be included as a term in
the</tt>
<br><tt>contract. It is particularly common when a family-farm is
taken over</tt>
<br><tt>by a younger member of the family.]</tt>
<p><tt>As I type this, it is only a short while till the start of the trial.</tt>
<br><tt>There is however still trouble with finding qualified jurors, and
the</tt>
<br><tt>counsel of one defendant tries to have the assistant counsel of
one</tt>
<br><tt>of the other defendants thrown from the case. The charges are as</tt>
<br><tt>follows:</tt>
<p><tt>"The autumn of 1998 Veronica and Per Kristian Orderud turned to</tt>
<br><tt>Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland and Lars Grnnerd with
a request for the</tt>
<br><tt>acquisition of firearms.</tt>
<p><tt>Per Kristian Orderud then proceeded to give Lars Grnnerd
money for</tt>
<br><tt>this acquisition.</tt>
<br><tt>On December 22nd 1998 Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland used parts of this</tt>
<br><tt>sum to buy two pistols calibre .22 with ammunition from an individual</tt>
<br><tt>in Molde.</tt>
<p><tt>The Christmas-party</tt>
<p><tt>During a visit at Orderud farm December 23rd same year, she handed</tt>
<br><tt>the guns and ammunition over to Veronica and Per Kristian Orderud.</tt>
<p><tt>Per and Veronica Orderud.</tt>
<p><tt>On the same evening and or the following night Veronica and Per</tt>
<br><tt>Kristian Orderud, Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland and Lars Grnnerd</tt>
<br><tt>planned in greater detail how the murders of Kristian Magnus Orderud,</tt>
<br><tt>Marie Orderud and Anne Orderud Paust should be carried out. Veronica</tt>
<br><tt>and Per Kristian Orderud were at this occasion also given</tt>
<br><tt>instructions in the use of the weapons.</tt>
<p><tt>Change of Weapons</tt>
<p><tt>The night before April 3rd on Orderud farm, Per Kristian Orderud</tt>
<br><tt>received a revolver calibre .38 with ammunition in exchange for
one</tt>
<br><tt>of the pistols that Kristin Kirkemo Haukeland had provided. The</tt>
<br><tt>change of weapons took place on the initiative of Per Kristian</tt>
<br><tt>Orderud. Following premeditation, the murders were carried out
as</tt>
<br><tt>follows:</tt>
<p><tt>The Triple-murder</tt>
<p><tt>A. The night before Saturday May 22nd 1999 in the in-law-house at</tt>
<br><tt>Orderud farm, Kristian Magnus Orderud was shot in his chest and
neck</tt>
<br><tt>with a revolver calibre .38 and a pistol calibre .22, killing him.</tt>
<p><tt>B. The night before Saturday May 22nd 1999 in the in-law-house at</tt>
<br><tt>Orderud farm, Marie Orderud was shot in her chest, neck and abdomen</tt>
<br><tt>with a revolver calibre .38 and a pistol calibre .22, killing her.</tt>
<p><tt>C. The night before Saturday May 22nd 1999 in the in-law-house at</tt>
<br><tt>Orderud farm, Anne Orderud Paust was shot in her throat, neck,
chest</tt>
<br><tt>and back with a revolver calibre .38 and a pistol calibre .22,</tt>
<br><tt>killing her."</tt>
<p><tt>Best regards</tt>
<br><tt>Christian Stub</tt>
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