Blood on Snow (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)
by:
Neil Smith (author)
Jo Nesbo (author)
Olav Johansen is a walking contradiction: He's a cold-blooded killer with a heart of gold. Normally this is not a problem. .
Olav Johansen is a walking contradiction: He's a cold-blooded killer with a heart of gold. Normally this is not a problem. .
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780804172554 (0804172552)
ASIN: 0804172552
Publish date: 2016-01-05
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
This one and the Midnight Sun is about fixer. This one is effective yet romantic. He interpreted things like a writer seeing the world, with rosy lense. His misinterpretion leads to a sad progression of the story. He was ordered to kill a woman. But he didn't want to, and that is how the pr...
Blood On Snow: author Joe Nesbo, translator Neil Smith, reader Patti Smith This brief story is about the anatomy of a murder and a murderer. Olav is a hired killer with a heart. He can be cruel and kind. How those two aspects of a personality dwell side by side within the same person is illuminated ...
I had a preconceived idea of how this book would be based on my reading, and enjoying, two of the author's Harry Hole novels. This short novel really should be judged on its own merits. It evokes the feel of Sweden and is a good noir. However, I didn't like, or really care what happened to, any of t...